Hello fellow gaijins, more than twice I went with my japanese language school friends to Torikizoku after a Friday class, lured in with the all you can drink cheap course, only to be surprised later by a hefty bill at check out.
Both times there were three of us, and besides the big potato with cheese, it came around to 9k¥, which is a little bit more than the attractive 1.5k¥ per person for the nomihoudai.
Obviously if we were a bit more fluent such doubt would not exist, so we couldn't the kanji either, I think besides the drinking course, there is the seating charge of maybe 3~400¥ per person, plus a premium something which is what I'm wondering.
by Gfurst