Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> The only time I ever had any problems with this, I was still living
> in St. Paul. We'd go to fast food places where the counter workers
> spoke Spanish to each other, and halting English with us. This was
> not a problem. The cooking staff was all Asian, and the counter and
> cooking staffs couldn't communicate with each other. We wound up
> with some weird orders.
>
> Bizarre.

Used to go to lunch at a little food stand where the cook was Mexican
and the owner/front man was Chinese. They spoke Spanish to one
another, English to the customers. Menu was German. "Dos =F3rdenes de
bratwurst." Part of the fun of living in the melting pot.

Incidentally, I didn't assume the cook was Mexican because they spoke
Spanish. You can't make that assumption in SoCal. When I asked the
owner "Where are you from?" (meaning which part of China), he said,
"I'm from Guangzhou, he's from Guadalajara." -aem