Rice & Mix Korean Kitchen at 1207 Walnut St – Are they only hiring Hispanics?
A reader send me this:
HughE
This is a new restaurant opening on 1207 Walnut street and the posting for “Now Hiring” is only in Spanish on both windows and it seems like they are only looking for Hispanic dishwashers and food prep. 
This is so discriminating against other races. We were pissed when we saw it.
Then you should be pissed at all the other restaurants that hires Hispanics and only Hispanics usually. It is so obvious that all restaurants in Philly are guilty of doing the same exact thing but they just don't have a sign written up on the front door.
It's about LANGUAGE – not race. I am white and yo hablo Espanol, tambien.
(Pues, no quiero lavar platos en un restaurante. Just my choice of professions.)
It's not anything like discrimination, just practical. Many of the people who apply for lower level kitchen jobs speak spanish as their first language and very little english – a situation that limits a person's job prospects. In the kitchens I've been in, the hardest working and most talented employees often are promoted to line cooks, etc. Thereby making spanish a very handy language to speak for those in the restaurant business.
I'm sure if you're wanting to wash dishes or bus tables, they'd be willing to interview you. Jeez, some people can find a way to get bent out of shape over just about anything!
I am a Puerto Rican and fluent in a few languages and I have friends that are white and african americans who can benefit from this job. They walk pass this restaurant daily on their way to look for work but they cannot read the posting because they do not speak Spanish. We live in the USA where the first language is English and the second is Spanish and if they have "Now Hiring" job posting on their window it should be in English and Spanish. It seems to me that this restaurant wants to exploit undocumented latinos like a big percentage of the restaurants are doing.
Shame the guy put "Anonymous"…..this is an exploitative action. The people who are down playing and justifying this should do some self reflecting. This is just blatant racism, and I'm not Latino or Hispanic.
Ignorance is not an excuse!!! So if the restaurant owners did not know, hopefully they will read this post and learn.