Restaraunt Uses Monkeys as Waiters
You expect to see something a little strange from time to time while traveling through Asia, but one establishment has something to really shock you.
Kayabuki, a Japanese tavern in Utsunomiya, recently employed 2 Macaques monkeys to act as waiters. Fuku is 12 years-old and Yat is a young 4 years of age and both seem to enjoy their new work.
Kaoru Otsuka, owner of the tavern, says the 2 monkeys are their household pets, but one day he noticed one of them mimicking a waiter by giving the customer a hot towel in the restaurant.
Mr. Otsuka thought it would be an interesting idea to have them actually serve the customers.
Both monkeys works 2 hours a day, serving drinks and handing customer hot towels.
They don’t seem to mind the work and are happy to do it in exchange for some Edamame (soybeans) from the customers as tip.
The monkey waiters have done such a good job and brought so much business to the restaurant, Mr. Otsuka admits they’re better than his real son at the job.
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By Mui Mui on 09-10-2008
Comment by cherpie
October 9th, 2008 at 11:36 am
that is so awesomely clever and cute!!
Comment by reyda
October 9th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
in france we have monkeys as waiters for ages !!
hey, wait…
Comment by darkwing duck
October 9th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
next they are going to take over the world.
get your paws off me
Comment by Edward Richardson
October 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Your’r right, Weird!
Comment by Matty
October 10th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Planet of the apres all over again…
Comment by MR J
October 11th, 2008 at 3:56 am
Cleverest monkeys around?
I wonder if they take orders… Imagine a monkey holding a notepad and a pen!!
Comment by Whitelines
October 12th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I’ve seen them in McDonalds! “would you like fries with that?”
Comment by Abhilash
October 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
In the US we use monkeys for politicians.
Comment by Belbe
October 14th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Hahaha!!
Comment by George W Bush
October 17th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Hey! Thats me!!
Comment by freedom-fighter
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
yeah.. I cant believe McCain is even on the ballot!
Comment by TIARA TOWNSEND
November 24th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
I WONT TO KNOW how COME YALL OUT THERE CAN teach a monkey hoe to play piano but cant teach are kids out here how to read n write cause kids these days
need there education these days.
Comment by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Speaking of George W. Bush:
George W. Bush committed hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism (indicated in my blog).
George W. Bush did in fact commit innumerable hate crimes.
And I do solemnly swear by Almighty God that George W. Bush committed other hate crimes of epic proportions and with the stench of terrorism which I am not at liberty to mention.
Many people know what Bush did.
And many people will know what Bush did—even to the end of the world.
Bush was absolute evil.
Bush is now like a fugitive from justice.
Bush is a psychological prisoner.
Bush has a lot to worry about.
Bush can technically be prosecuted for hate crimes at any time.
In any case, Bush will go down in history in infamy.
Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993
“GEORGE W. BUSH IS THE WORST PRESIDENT IN U.S. HISTORY†BLOG OF ANDREW YU-JEN WANG
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I am not sure where I had read it before, but anyway, it is a linguistically excellent statement, and it goes kind of like this: “If only it were possible to ban invention that bottled up memory so it never got stale and faded.†Oh wait—off the top of my head—I think the quotation came from my Lower Merion High School yearbook.
Comment by montresor
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:26 am
Case in point, how come your parents didn't teach you how to write? Correct form: "I want to know how come all of you out there can teach a monkey how to play piano but can't teach your kids how to read and write. Because kids these days need their education."
No offense, I don't really care if people use correct grammar or spelling, its just really stupid to say people need to educate their kids in reading and writing when you can't even write.