One had no prices on the menu and was handed to women. The other had the prices on the menu and were handed to me. And by the way, the female diners were not free.

Lets think about this differently. Imagine if it was a Tex-Mex restaurant that offered $1 discount on their spanish version of the menu. He says the difference is to support the learning of spanish by giving a discount for those who are able to handle enough spanish to order off the spanish menu. Now whether you said there was no problem or there was a problem hold that thought.

Imagine next that the Tex-Mex restaurant changes their policy and offers a $1 discount if you order in english. The owner makes the change to support the learning of english by giving a discount for those who are able to handle enough english to order off the english menu. Do you have a problem with that?

Is your answer dependant on which language is getting the discount. If the owner is an immigrant who is grateful for what this country has allowed him to accomplish and thinks that learning english is one of the keys for immigrant success, does that change your view? If the owner believes that the state the restaurant is in was stolen from Mexico and should be returned, does that change your view?

At the end of the day, this should be a straight forward economic exchange. Money for food. If you don't like the deal, go somewhere else. If the owner wants to promote the use of one language vs another, support the restaurant or not. But lawyers don't need to be involved (unless they are buying me lunch).

Permit me to doubt.

I doubt that any of the mentioned Chinese restaurants wait until they have confirmed the individuals ability to speak Chinese before handing them the menu. What is really going on is cheaper prices for ethnic Chinese who are recent immigrants.

Of course I suspect that all of these restaurants also cheat on their taxes and fragrantly violate health and building codes.

My sporting goods catalogs discriminate by sending their catalogs to sportsman and woman.

There are certain sections of a nearby city that I tend to discriminate against -especially at night.

But Chinese food is not acceptable to me - I care not the least if they charge someone else a buck less.

Isn't there a biblical admonition about complaining about the wages given to those laborers who came late to the field?

It's a Freakin Dollar! Don't Fret! Come over my house and I'll give you a whole dollar, not the paper ones, but the new coin ones too...

It's illegal to discriminate on the basis of age against those over 40. Here, the protected class is the beneficiary.

Can I come live on the planet you live on where senior citizens are NOT a protected class? Maybe on your planet we wouldn't have to worry about the growing number of protected classes. Soon we will probably see gays there as well. No wonder there are huge growing numbers of lawyers EVERYday.

Get with the program man!

I'm sure almost all of them are learning rudimentary English; they just happen to also speak Chinese.

If a roundeye walks in and can order in Chinese, then I’d preseume they’d get the discount too.

My guess is that the roundeyes aren't given that menu.