The Kayabukiya Tavern¹ looks like any other traditional-style Japanese 'sake-house' restaurant. 

 

这家名为“Kayabukiya”的酒馆和其他传统风格的日本清酒屋餐馆看起来差不多。
 

 

However, once you walk into the modest premises² in Utsunomiya, Tochigi prefecture it quickly becomes apparent that human waiters have been replaced by Macaque monkeys. 

 

Seventeen-year-old Fuku-chan was ushered³ into the role after she delivered a napkin to a table unprompted, mimicking⁴ Yat-chan, the original Macaque waiter.

 

Restaurant owner, Kaoru Otsuka, then decided⁵ to pair her with Yat-chan. 

 

People come from all four corners of the world to be served by the simian⁶ and now video footage has caught her in action, showing a typical day at work. 

 

Viewers can see Fuku-chan, dressed in a chequered waiter's shirt and skirt, bringing guests a beer and fetching napkins for diners.

 

If Fuku-chan and her younger companions do a good job patrons of the restaurant are encouraged to leave a tip of soya beans while their owner feeds them bananas as payment. 

 

Otsuka, who sort the monkeys after seeing them in their natural habitat of the Nikkō mountains, said: 'They are closer than my family. I hold them all day and sleep with them. Once I started taking care of them I couldn't let go. 

 

'They are just way too cute.' 

 

Monkeys have been working at the bar for some 29 years, reports 28 Lab.

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