[dole]

The Thai government practices gastro-diplomacy, they have a program where you set a Thai restaurant up in a foreign country, you can pick from three different packages for size or fanciness of restaurant. It's why you see a lot of the same decorations and similarities between differently owned Thai restaurants, or occasionally a family will own a number in a metro area.

[drjasonharrison]

/s missing?

[flocciput]

> The Department of Export Promotion of the Thai Ministry of Commerce offers potential restaurateurs plans for three different "master restaurant" types—from fast food to elegant—which investors can choose as a prefabricated restaurant plan.

from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culinary_diplomacy#Thailand

[hattmall]

No, this is why there are so many Thai restaurants relative to their population. Even most small towns will have one or two.