interesting that a guy wouldn't be into that tho feels like dating coworkers is a slippery slope even if this kinda job is more 'casual'/diff than an office job but at least he has another 'love interest' even if he seems oblivious
When you are working at the Japanese equivalent of Applebees, no one gives a fuck. At similar places int he US everyone fucks/dates because they usually get off at the same time
giggity and if it does get awkward you either A) move your shifts so you never see each other or B) Quit applebees and go work at the Chilli's on the next block.
(fun fact, sometimes you don't even need to quit; lots of the fast-casual places have the same corporate masters so you just transfer)
Even the "Managers, don't fuck your employees" is way, WAY relaxed in foodservice.
As was explained to me by a friend:
At the chain they worked at, rather than trying to do more than the barest minimum to stop General Managers and below from fucking employees because it was utterly pointless, they simply implemented a policy where ANY action for or against regular employees except for employee-initiated shiftswapping had to get sign off from two managers, Ideally from GM or above, in writing with justification.
Since it was unlikely the employee was fucking BOTH managers, there was thus always independent management involved on all decisions so this would pre-collapse nearly all charges of sexual harrassment.
This was not exactly bulletproof, but it would make any ambulance chaser approached by a buttmad employee take a look, see that the effort involved would be more than minimal and the outcome less than certain, and would almost always pass. Or at least not work on contingency and it was unlikely an Applebee's waitress had the scratch for a retainer.