A Tokyo restaurant only hires waiters with dementia. If your order is wrong, you eat it anyway - and somehow, that's become the most heartwarming dining experience in the world.
It's called the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders, founded by Japanese TV director Shiro Oguni after he visited a dementia care home and was served the wrong meal. Instead of complaining, he had a thought: what if the mistake wasn't the problem?
So he opened a restaurant where every single server lives with dementia. Orders go wrong about 37% of the time. Customer satisfaction sits at 99%.
Visitors say they came in expecting frustration and left in tears - the good kind. The elderly servers, many of whom had withdrawn from society entirely, now show up to work beaming. "I'm still capable," one server said after his shift. "This has given me confidence."
The restaurant doesn't try to hide the mistakes. It celebrates them. Menus even carry a note that reads: "Even if your order is mistaken, everything on our menu is delicious and one of a kind. This, we guarantee."
It has since inspired similar restaurants in South Korea and Australia, and continues to operate in Tokyo to this day. Sometimes the wrong order is exactly what everyone needed.
We have a democrat House that does that, but not to make these people happy: to get help fleecing the country.
ReplyDeleteThat is beautiful. Thank you
ReplyDeleteDo you know where the Australian one is?
ReplyDeleteWe have a President that does that. We ordered no new wars, lower inflation and low gas prices.
ReplyDeleteI'm positive that what I'm getting is not what I ordered!
That's not dementia. That's Deep State Israelitis. Sadly a common problem with most presidents since at least 1948.
DeleteIf only that was the worst thing about dementia. A great idea for folks still capable, but sadly all forms of the condition take very awful and sad turns as things progress. And yes, I am speaking from personal experience. Now on my third loved one.
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