IN TOKYO, there is a restaurant where customers are happy to get bad service.
You ask for dumplings, and you get miso soup, you order grilled fish, and maybe you get sushi.
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.
All this happens at the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders where the wait staff have dementia, SBS has reported.
It has been organised as a recurring pop-up restaurant to broaden the public's awareness of dementia.
The unexpected nature of the inadvertent human mistakes has become, in a way, the actual product of the restaurant, more than the desired meal itself.
A Japanese television director, Shiro Oguni, created this business to change perceptions about ageing and progressive cognitive impairment, and to accept varying levels of functionality.
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