This used to be a thing at a certain stratum of restaurants in the US, too. When I was a kid, there was a Tastee-Freez a couple towns over that had neatly painted plaster models of everything they offered in a big display case that doubled as the counter. Not just the ice cream dishes, but the burgers and stuff too.

I've probably talked about it before at some point, but I'm still very nostalgic about that Tastee-Freez. When I was in middle school, the old couple who ran it sold the place to a Vietnamese family, who converted it into a Chinese restaurant--and kept the Tastee-Freez franchise. It was the only restaurant I've ever seen where you could get a pu pu platter, a burger, and a banana split.

Man, I miss that place. When the matriarch of the family retired and passed it on to her daughter, the daughter's (white) husband had the brilliant idea to let the Tastee-Freez license go and turn the restaurant into a bar. Aaaand then it partly burned down and never reopened. Sic transit gloria mundi.

(The daughter ran a food truck in the next town over for a while thereafter, serving the same Chinese food they used to offer at the Tastee-Freez, but she hasn't opened for a couple years. Sad face. I miss the way she does beef teriyaki and fried rice.)

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