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INTEREST: California Business Owner Holds Poll for Maid Café

Will they use discriminatory hiring practices (ie Japanese females only) or will they include other nationalities/races?

I live where their was a US Maid Cafe and it failed, also their is another one that opened up about 50 miles away as far as I know it's still in business.

They will never work in the US for many reasons but first why the one locally where I lived failed. The owner had the maid cafe on sundays I believe and only a small number of maids. Plus it was very small inside with little to no tables and open for a few hours. His primary business was a anime goods shop that had nothing in stock or of any value so in the end various bad decesions caught up with him and he went bankrupt.

The other one is near a Japan Town but not in it and is not that easily accessable so people don't want to fight nightmarish traffic going into a major city to go see it. Also the food is ok, not that great and of course over priced.

As for the reason why the one in Detroit failed, come on they're aren't exactly the Anime hub when it comes to fans, and fans with money to spend. And not to be racist I don't care what race the maids where they were all fat and ugly I can see that for free walking down the street all day long.

Maid Cafes are just not part of our culture. They cost so much to run renting a building and the high wages for the maids, you don't think girls are going to dress up and act all cute for minimum wage do you? And the biggest reasons is repeat customers, people might try it once or twice but they're not going to go every weekend or day like they do in Japan yeah we have creepy people and otakus as well here in the states but not ones who will keep them afloat.

It's more like a tourist attraction oh I went but it's not worth going a second time. Another reason besides repeat customers I can think of is the maids themselves. When we hear maid cafe we think Japan and Japanese girls most of these places will try to hire any girls who are willing to fill the role but it just feels off. Not to say that Japanese girls are some how superior but if you went to Japan to a maid cafe would you want to see american girls? We have that already it's called HOOTERS.

Not only that most of these places don't hire exactly the prettiest girls they can find, even if they could they would probably want too high wages to employ them.

I just don't see any maid cafe succeeding and being profitable too many factors can cause your downfall but it's a given that without repeat business it just won't work.

I just wonder what they plan on changing to adapt to the US market?Or are they really just going to copy paste their model and plant it in LA?

What about the waitresses? Are they going to bring somebody from Japan to train them, because I doubt anyone has any experience providing service in this manner.

Will they use discriminatory hiring practices (ie Japanese females only) or will they include other nationalities/races?

We are not planning to bring maids from Japan at this point, so we want to find good casts here in LA!

As for the reason why the one in Detroit failed, come on they're aren't exactly the Anime hub when it comes to fans, and fans with money to spend. And not to be racist I don't care what race the maids where they were all fat and ugly I can see that for free walking down the street all day long.

I hate to say it, but their publicity photos had a tendency of using one of their worst-looking maids. That said, I think "we serve, you prepare" had a lot more to do with their failure than less-than-decent looking waitstaff.