Hi Everyone,
We recently read an article about the very unique "Theme Restaurants" in Japan,
like The Ninja Akasaka theme restaurant in Tokyo's Akasaka district.
The Ninja Akasaka theme restaurant, opened in 2001, and receives approximately
around 3,000 to 5,000 customers a month!
This wonderful restaurant has been described as a fusion of Disneyland and Ninja.
Check out the QR code below. You can use it to go to the Ninja Akasaka website with your cell
phone!
According to the restaurant manager, Kuramochi-san, "When customers come out
from the path (that takes them from the entrance to their seats), their faces are
beaming with excitement".
"In recent years, the food-service industry has raised the bar. Cheap fare used to not
taste so good. . . .but today, most restaurants serve tasty food (regardless of price).
To stand out from other restaurants, we offer entertainment".
According to Kuramochi-san, his restaurant offers 100 Japanese-theme dishes,
including "shuriken" (ninja star-shaped snacks), a dessert in the shape of bonsai and
a turban-shell plate served with a "thrill".
Another unique feature of this restaurant is that while customers dine, a ninja visits
each table to perform magic tricks!
Although there are many "Theme Restaurants" in Japan, and many of them are
popular with the anime and manga community, very few offered fare considered
satisfactory to older generations, and according to Kuramochi-san, he wanted to make
a Restaurant that both offered unique entertainment and good food that older people
could enjoy".
The Akasaka Restaurant became popular with young diners in the beginning.
It was later that older, richer executives began to occupy the seats and as many as 50
percent of the customers are foreigners.
Diamond Dining Co. is another company known for its concept restaurants. The
company has been opening new restaurants almost every year since it launched
Vampire Cafe in 2001!
The Vampire Cafe features blood splattered all over the glowing red floors, the waitresses dress
in Gothic French maid outfits and the waiters wear tuxedos and you can order “Vampire’s blood"
cocktails!
At the Alice in Wonderland Café , (Ehon no Kuni no Alice/Alice's Picture Book World) in the
Kabukicho district all the waitresses wear beautiful Alice in Wonderland costumes
(light blue with white checkered pinafore, white puffed-sleeved blouses, and a black headband
with a black bow in the middle).
It's entrance is made to look like a huge picture book. The act of opening and passing
through the huge door gives customers the feeling of "stepping into another world".
The company recently opened its 95th restaurant, using the Sengoku Period (1477-1573) as its
theme, in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, last Friday and plans to add five more restaurants by the end of
2010.
We would definitely love for Diamond Dining Co. to open one of these restaurants in Arizona!
Send us your thoughts.
