Just wondering what's the general thought on the maid cafes. Last week, I went to Maidreamin Cafe No 1 in Akihabara in the evening. I'm not into the whole kawaii thing, but thought since I'm visiting Japan might as well try the things that are mostly unique to there once.
I went to this spot which was on the forth floor of the building where one of the thousands of anime shops are located along the strip. Went through the typical initial routine and got the combo which included the bear burger with veggies, drink, dessert, souvenir and a photo. The food was so so. The thing that got me is the service was the worst. For someplace that claims to serve you, this was one of the worst restaurant experiences ever. The girls were nice enough and did their typical maid cafe routines but service sucked. The meals took forever to be served (long period between dinner and dessert). The maids never checked to see if I needed more drinks or anything, not even more water. They just left me lingering there mostly. I was bored as hell. Even to finally get the check to leave was a hassle.
The thing that got me was that there wasn't any more than 4 customers at any given time, so they weren't busy. Maybe it's because of my lack or non existent Japanese skills, but how much language skill does it take to provide basic restaurant services. For the price you pay, not great food and bad service, I definitely would not recommend the maid cafe, particularly that one I went to. I guess if you just want some cute Japanese girl in a maid outfit serving (I use that word loosely) you your meal and singing cute songs before you eat, than it's cool, beyond that don't expect much. My question is, is that typical of these places or was it just bad timing or place?
They had the nerve to ask me to put a little dot sticker on this board on the wall indicating whether the experience was good, so so, or boring. Being the nice guy that I am, I just let the girl choose where she wanted to put it and of course she chose good, LOL.
I went to this spot which was on the forth floor of the building where one of the thousands of anime shops are located along the strip. Went through the typical initial routine and got the combo which included the bear burger with veggies, drink, dessert, souvenir and a photo. The food was so so. The thing that got me is the service was the worst. For someplace that claims to serve you, this was one of the worst restaurant experiences ever. The girls were nice enough and did their typical maid cafe routines but service sucked. The meals took forever to be served (long period between dinner and dessert). The maids never checked to see if I needed more drinks or anything, not even more water. They just left me lingering there mostly. I was bored as hell. Even to finally get the check to leave was a hassle.
The thing that got me was that there wasn't any more than 4 customers at any given time, so they weren't busy. Maybe it's because of my lack or non existent Japanese skills, but how much language skill does it take to provide basic restaurant services. For the price you pay, not great food and bad service, I definitely would not recommend the maid cafe, particularly that one I went to. I guess if you just want some cute Japanese girl in a maid outfit serving (I use that word loosely) you your meal and singing cute songs before you eat, than it's cool, beyond that don't expect much. My question is, is that typical of these places or was it just bad timing or place?
They had the nerve to ask me to put a little dot sticker on this board on the wall indicating whether the experience was good, so so, or boring. Being the nice guy that I am, I just let the girl choose where she wanted to put it and of course she chose good, LOL.
