The website is now available in 5 languages
You can now read the RestaurantOS website in 5 languages: Japanese, English, Chinese (Simplified), Spanish and French. Everything is included — the pricing page, the sign-up screen for the Founding Member offer, the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the Refund Policy, and the disclosure under Japan's Specified Commercial Transactions Act.
Each translation is made directly from the Japanese original into that language. We do not build the English version first and route the other languages through it. An error introduced along the way would spread, unchanged, into every language that followed.
On top of that, every translation goes through three checks. The first is a machine comparison, matching the numbers against the original one by one: amounts, day counts and percentages. The second is a reading in that language alone — someone reads the translation without being shown the original, and points out anything that reads unnaturally. The third is a side-by-side reading of the original and the translation, looking only for shifts in meaning.
We split it into three because no one of them is enough on its own. Take "30 minutes a day or more": translate it as "3 minutes a day or more" and the sentence still reads perfectly naturally. A check that only looks at how the text reads lets this kind of error straight through. In text about money and conditions, that is not a nitpick — it is an accident.
One more thing: RestaurantOS is currently built for restaurants in Japan. The plugins, the legal compliance, and the pricing and payment are all optimised for Japan. You can use it from outside Japan too, on either the free plan or a paid one, but at present both the app's optimisation and our support are for Japan only. If you use it from outside Japan, please do so at your own responsibility. We also plan to tailor the service to individual countries going forward.