My friend Chris spends a lot more time in their restaurant and is at least as pedantic about this sort of thing as I am, also he knows the people who own it fairly well, so I'm confident he's mentioned it.
However while the restaurant's manager might care, as I understand it her husband is the hard core chef who ensured it's a success, why should he give a shit? Presumably the errors are just in the text for stupid barbarians like me - many of them don't even order from his real menu anyway. His taste is what matters, nobody comes to the restaurant because of the typography or web site design, they come to eat his food.
If my family is any indication, the menu won’t get corrected until the restaurant owner sends their child to American schools and the kid gets old enough to fix it. Just give it 11 or 12 years.
Why? I can understand cutting Chinese restaurants some slack because of a possible language barrier with owners, but what's wrong with ones who are fluent in English? Or have the resources to hire a good agency to put together their menu and proofread it?
Not GP but I have the same red flag system. If it's perfect english (or whatever native language you use) it's more likely that not the restaurant is run by a native, not a real chinese family. So warning flags, most likely not the best the chinese kitchen can deliver :-)
It's a way to find family-owned restaurants. The other ones are "good Asian restaurants have bad service" (though I don't think that's true anymore) and "good restaurants will never be expensive".
The last one is a problem because real family restaurants do want to raise prices/be more upscale too, but none of their customers will let them because they expect banh mi to be $3.
Additionally, I have it in my head that not bothering to fix menus shows a certain admirable pragmatism. "Frind pok" is not correct but it is correct enough.
However while the restaurant's manager might care, as I understand it her husband is the hard core chef who ensured it's a success, why should he give a shit? Presumably the errors are just in the text for stupid barbarians like me - many of them don't even order from his real menu anyway. His taste is what matters, nobody comes to the restaurant because of the typography or web site design, they come to eat his food.