>>>Vapiano...
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>Sounds like Wagamama in London or Auckland: you're seated on benches at long tables and they get Japanese-inspired food out to you quickly. Interesting concept but better to visit an actual Japanese restaurant if that's what you're after IMHO.

Wagama looks a lot like the MoschMosch group we have here, from interior design to menu, which is here in central germany in a few cities.

http://www.moschmosch.com/moschmosch-ihrer-nahe

I think it is safe to say that even in traditional restaurants not everything is like in the home land, but a bit targeted to the taste or expectation of the actual country - a bit less in japaneses restaurants than other asian cuisines, but inside-out rolls can be found here in most places and the knife-throwing cooking style coming from the states can be watched in a few restaurants as well. Customer decides if he comes back, better to have the option to choose.

Vapiano targets italian style noodle with salads from mediterrenean to cross-over, customers lining up at cooking stations modelled to look like high class fast food take outs and bringing their food themselves to their places. Most of the founders are out, but and they are well over 100 places now. Dunno if the claims have none, a small or a broad foundation or there is one paper/reporter who has been pissed off and tries to dig around them more than usual. Perhaps a bit of both...

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>>>love the afterthought makeup job on second picture in second - and would never have thought that authorities in NZ would stoop to comment. Or was that triggered by friends of the agency to create more of a hoopla? Is religion that big in your county?
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>Some allowance that a chain calling itself "Hell" is setting out to be irreverent, but general consensus was that it's going too far to advertize pizza using the leader of another nation in that disrespectful fashion. There are standards authorities to investigate resulting complaints as there are in every Western nation. You'll always find bovver boys who like insult and mayhem but in polite NZ society, even people who didn't have much time for Bush would have been uneasy at this sort of thing.
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>This also caused complaint, but doesn't target anybody in particular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAmJEqBSBqI&list=PL1E99CF82AF300241&index=5


Hertz is one of the few companies advertizing with zing here:

http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/werbung-angela-merkel-stehen-die-haare-zu-berge-a-132434.html

some more at
http://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/dienstleister/sixt-die-aufsehenerregendsten-kampagnen-des-autovermieters/4698790.html?p=15&a=false&slp=false#image

points to the one descibed in Spiegel, but probably you would not get the some of the references in others (one recurring theme was strike of lokomotive drivers of Bundesbahn, clearly benficial to Hertz)

zAmJEqBSBqI