"The City sued them for discrimination based on national origin, and forced them to put the menu into English for any gaijin who wanted to come in and order."
The concept of non-discrimination in public accommodation goes back to the Civil Rights era, and efforts at ending legal segregation. Looks like we're going to see a trial balloon floated, with the intent of greatly (and I do mean greatly) expanding the scope of just what constitutes accommodation. Imagine the expense of being required to hire bilingual or multilingual frontline employees, in order to deal with at least the predominant languages in the local area. What a boondoggle.
Our main public school district identified 90 different non-English languages spoken in the homes of students. It's a nightmare trying to coordinate student-parent necessary notifications.
For hurricane season, they've had to go to a computer assisted program to have messages about school closings. Spanish is #1 and Vietnamese is #2, but there are 88 other languages needed for "accomodation."