2016-09-17: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Touring

[robkelk]

"I think," Hayakawa said slowly, "that before we do anything else, it would behoove us to have breakfast."  He gestured toward the end of the building, toward what she had thought was a restaurant.  "I am reliably informed that Denny's serves a more than acceptable American-style meal."

"Of course it would, we're in America," Onsa muttered.

Stop me if you've heard this one: Although it presumably never appeared on Bakuon!! due to licensing vagaries and may not actually exist in-universe, Denny's does in fact have a presence in OTL Japan (owned by the parent company of 7-Eleven). In fact, if the club's familiar with the Japanese version, their expectations for their meal may be somewhat skewed. (You may wish to tweak the version going, or gone, to AO3; then again, you may not. If you do, please blame credit me [as Aberrant_Eyes] for picking the nit.)

Motel 6, on the other hand, appears to be exclusive to Unistat and Canada as far as I can discover, or at least the only Google results I got for 'motel 6 japan' that involved location services didn't return any results pointing to a Japanese presence. (When I searched Motel 6's own website for 'Kyoto', autocorrupt autocomplete gave a lot of pointers to Japanese restaurants in places like Severna Park, MD.)

Well... er... Ah! Nobody said that Denny's doesn't have a presence in Japan, just that Hane thought there was something odd about the sign (North American signs don't have Japanese writing on them) and that Hayakawa wasn't familiar with the establishment.

Besides, the menu is different.

Does that make our saving throw?