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The Restaurant Of Mistaken Orders

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In Tokyo, there is a restaurant where customers are happy to get bad service. You ask for dumplings, and you get miso soup. Whoops. You order grilled fish, and maybe you get sushi. Wait a minute. What? It’s a regular thing for the waiters and waitresses to mix things up, bring the wrong meal, misunderstand what a customer requests, or actually drink the glass of water they were meant to deliver to some table. So, you go thirsty for a bit. This sort of thing gets these workers hired, not fired. Is this performance art? No, it’s mostly in Kyoto, and these waiters and waitresses all have dementia. It isn’t a flaw. It’s the feature. It’s the primary qualification for the job. All this happens at the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders. It has been organized as a recurring pop-up, held a number of times over several days, to broaden the public’s awareness of dementia. The gentle surprise of the inadvertent human mistakes has become, in a way, the actual product of the restaurant—more than the des

Today’s Stocks Money Markets The Restaurant Of Mistaken Orders By Peter Georgescu , Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Georgescu is chairman emeritus of Y & R advertising. for JUST Capital Follow Author Aug 18, 2023, 11:06am EDT This article is more than 2 years old. Waiters and diners at the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders in Kyoto in 2017. Restaurant of Mistaken Orders In Tokyo, there is a restaurant where customers are happy to get bad service. You ask for dumplings, and you get miso soup. Whoops. You order grilled fish, and maybe you get

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