Getting the wrong order in a restaurant is really, really bad for both the waiter and the client, especially when the latter is hungry. Asking for a big, fat, juicy burger but ending up getting the menu of the day for veggies, could trigger a chain reaction with one of the two ending up being unemployed: in 99,99999% of the cases...the waiter.
However, that's not always the case. See, there's a pop-up restaurant in Tokyo, Japan, going by the awesomely cool and original name of The Restaurant of Order Mistakes that hires exclusively older waiters with dementia and other brain diseases. And trust me, the owners of the restaurant do this for a GREAT purpose!
The Menu of the Day
In this restaurant, clients won't get mad when they see a plate of fish-stew sitting on their table instead of a medium rare steak, simply because they know what to expect when they decide to visit The Restaurant of Order Mistakes during a special trial period, which usually lasts up to three days. Apparently, the restaurant doesn't hire waiters who suffer from dementia and Alzheimer's disease all year round, but only for a specific amount of time.
In June 2017, the owners of the restaurant hired experimentally seventeen dementia patients in hope to show their clients that with patience, kindness, acceptance and tolerance towards dementia patients, we can help them to be functioning members of our society and lessen the stigma surrounding this brain disease.
How Did It Go?
Even though many clients ordered a different dish from the one they ended up devouring, the restaurant's surprising project gained a lot of new clients. Mizuho Kudo, a noted local food blogger, was one of the new clients who visited the restaurant during the 3-day trial and as she stated....she had a BLAST. Despite ordering a classic American hamburger, she had dumplings coming instead, "I’m fine dumplings came and had a good laugh. They were delicious by the way," she joyfully tweeted.
The owners of The Restaurant of Order Mistakes organized another big event in honor of World Alzheimer’s Day on September 21, where patients of Alzheimer’s disease served the clients this time. According to various reports there wasn't even a single complaint for the extraordinary job the waiters did that day.
The happy owners of the restaurant promised to keep organizing such "different" events frequently, in order to remind their busy, diligent clients that being "human" is the greatest virtue of all after all. Let's admit it; we need more restaurants like The Restaurant of Order Mistakes worldwide, don't we?
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Pop-up restaurant in Japan employs staff with dementia to raise awareness about the brain disease
The Restaurant of Order Mistakes only employs waiters who have dementia
This is one of the best ways to prioritize elderly people in Japan as it is facing an aging population. This way they would feel valued.
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I fully agree yaniecyag! An excellent way to reconsider some things and the way we perceive illness and society as a whole. Sure, it may not be easy for the rest of us, "healthy people," but patience and kindness don't cost us a thing, no? Furthermore, we may end up suffer from similar conditions one day. Will we want to be treated like soulless bodies then? I don't think so!
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Yeah right, nobody would want that tkappa. !
It's a good thing that there are many kind and soulful people in Japan.
I do hope that attitude will spread across the world because if it's inevitable for us to develop the disease, we might as well feel at ease knowing that somebody would support us heartwarmingly and soulfully.
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I could go for a mystery meal. Reminds me of the school lunch days. I'd open the bag, wtf is this?
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I'd open the bag, wtf is this? LOL
Remember the 90's lunchboxes bro? I will admit that I borrowed my sister's Spice Girls box from time to time and everyone would make fun of me at school. I still don't get it. What's wrong with a man having a Spice Girls lunchbox? Lol
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My only request when it came to school lunch was it had to be in a brown paper bag. My first day of grade one some a-hole big kid made fun of my Transformers lunch box. I'd still like to smash him over the head with it, again, just for old times.
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haha! I had to look 'dementia' up but now I get it..
You can go to this restaurant and think about ..
and so on :)
Good cause though, thanks for digging this up!
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Heck, doesn't matter what I order, let's see what they will bring me
That's why I love your energy, Katerina! In this restaurant you go to "contribute" to the AWESOME purpose not to fill your stomach. That should be the spirit in case you decide to go to such restaurant. You can always go to a Gyro shop or Burger House later and eat like a monster though :P he he
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They should call it Kinder Surprise Restaurant :P
One question: Do the waitresses forget they work there and sit at the tables waiting for their food to come?
It is a good thing trying to help patients being functional, though...
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He he he....I think that was a commemorative photo at the end of the 3-day trial. I am not sure to be honest, but I am pretty confident that the restaurant's owners probably had a few coordinators to supervise the waiters at all times ;)
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I think the purpose of this restaurant is really wonderful!!!
I mean, we will all grow old one day. That is if we're allowed of course and don't die young first!
So imagine if we would end up with dementia as well or something similar !! Nobody likes to be sick or in pain.
I don't think they like it either! So instead of putting these people at the side it would be nice to show some respect and as you mentioned above "with patience, kindness, acceptance and tolerance towards dementia patients"!!!
That's all they need!!
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Beautiful words, sis ;)
Exactly...Nobody wants to be sick or to suffer. Some just have bad luck and the ones who are not as unlucky should show more sympathy. Mutual respect, compassion and patience! Holy triangle of virtues!
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Kind of cool, and kind of scary. It's like Russian Roulette - you never know what you're going to get!
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Never heard of this restaurant but I like this concept :)) The Japanese always know how to think outside the box :) Good one Theo & Agent K!
Btw, I am pretty sure these waiters would easily outperform some of the "normal" young guys I have been served by on several occasions :DD
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eimai enimeronos kala blepo, to xa diabasei auto :P
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Your post very very important all people and students
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enjoy the 0 rep :D
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known plagiarists don't deserve to be here, you got downvoted because of that and nothing else
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