Cosplay restaurant
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Cosplay restaurants (コスプレ系飲食店), are theme restaurants and pubs that originated in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan around the year 2000. They include maid cafés (メイドカフェ) and butler cafés, where the service staff dresses in cosplay, elegant maids, or butlers. Such restaurants and cafes have become the staple of Japanese otaku culture. Compared to "normal" cafés' service, maid cafés provide a slightly different atmosphere. The maids treat the customers as their master in a home. The popularity of the cosplay restaurants and maid cafes has spread to other regions in Japan such as Osaka's Den Den Town as well as other Asian countries, such as South Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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[edit] Meido cafe
[edit] Meido
The maids are often dressed in lolita fashion or french maid-styled uniforms to look and act "moe" for the customers. Sometimes the maid outfit is augmented with cat or bunny ears. At maid cafes most service staff members are female and male jobs are typically limited to bar-backing and janitorial duties.
Some homepages of maid cafés have pictures and profiles of the maids.
[edit] Service
When a customer enters the café, the maids typically give a flattering greeting such as "Welcome home, Master"(おかえりなさい、御主人様！) in order to play the role of a house servant. Unlike "ordinary" cafés, maids serve customers as if they were their masters. For example, staff sometimes kneel on the ground to mix sugar or milk in teas or other drinks. The purpose of the maid cafés and their service is to make customers feel at home and relaxed. Although exemplary customer service is typical of Japan, maid cafés take special care to pamper their patrons.
[edit] Butler cafe
While most cosplay restaurants and maid cafes are attractive to men, there are also a cafe for the females called butler cafe. The butlers in a butler cafes are more well-dressed, and may be in a waiter's uniform or in an elegant butler suit. Some of the butlers are actualy not males, but females - dressed to look like males. Butler cafes are a home to the gathering of female otakus and their male-to-male couple interests.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Meido cafes
English
- @Home Cafe
- Cafe Doll Tokyo
- Cafe Mai:lish
- Mia Cafe
- Pash Cafe NAGOMI
- Maid-san
- Amu Amu (Seoul, South Korea)
- Akiba (Bangkok, Thailand)
- Cosafe, Singapore
- i maid café (Ontario, Canada)
- Butler cafes
