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The first permanent [1] maid café, Cure Maid Café, was established in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan, in March 2001, [2] but maid cafés are becoming increasingly popular. The increased competition drove the cafes to employ more diversified themes, gimmicks and even unusual tactics to attract customers. [ 3 ]
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While most cosplay restaurants and maid cafes cater mostly to men, there is also a type for women called the butler café (執事喫茶, shitsuji kissa).The butlers in these cafes are well-dressed male employees and may wear either a typical waiter's uniform or even a tuxedo or tails. [11]
In North America, Europe, and Oceania, pop-up butler cafés have been hosted at anime conventions, including Anime Expo in the United States, [16] Hücon in Turkey, [17] and SMASH! in Australia, which was the first anime convention to host a butler café. [18]
Maidreamin's all-female staff wears identical bright white, pink, and blue maid uniforms and the restaurants serve kawaii-themed meals and drinks. [8] The staff members perform a short ceremony at each table when serving their customers, and delivers a musical performance on the restaurant's stage every two hours.
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For Comic Cakes in South Korea, run by the Haksan Cultural Centre, the cafe is a place to read manga but it also displays and sells over 10,000 paintings and other related products. This is not only to enhance sales, but to also serve as a new distribution and market research channel for publishers.
A hostess club is a type of night club found primarily in Japan which employs mostly female staff and caters to men seeking drinks and attentive conversation. Host clubs are a similar type of establishment where mostly male staff attend to women.