What is a Maid?

Maid is a kind of occupation, whose main role is to do housework for the employer. They are called differently depending on the times, but the basic nature of work is the same. Can afford most household chores. ^[1]

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At present, domestic maids are called babysitters, and now they are also called domestic helpers. Because domestic helpers live in Hong Kong or live abroad, they are divided into local helpers and foreign helpers. Local helpers are often called domestic helpers, and guardians in Taiwan.

The word maidservant was derived from the addition of maid to house servant, household servant, and domestic servant. Later, the servant was omitted, and the word maid alone meant maid. In Chinese Taiwanese subculture, it is also called "girl shake", which is the transliteration of maid.

Maid Overview

COSPLAY Maid Catering was not really long. From the predecessor of the "COS Coffee" event at the fandom sale in 1999, the first maid cafe started to operate in 2000 (now closed). Then, with the popularity of animation in the world. Similar coffee shops have opened in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, the United States, and Paris, France.

Maid classification

COSPLAY Cafe staff is dressed in character costumes appearing in anime games for COSPLAY to receive guests' cafes. There are also cosplay restaurants and izakayas. The female clerks in the maid cafes are dressed in a modified version of maid costumes in the late 19th century in Britain. They treat customers as "hosts" or "big ladies" and use the shop as their home. When the guests walk into the store, the "maids" will say, "Welcome back, master (or young lady)." In fact, it is also a kind of cosplay. Depending on the theme of the store, there are two main business directions: "Meng" or "Healing (Spiritually)". ^[2]

Maid's Izakaya is a comprehensive form of Maid's Cafe and ordinary Izakaya, which offers a richer menu and offers a variety of drinks. In addition, there are women's deacon cafes and men's cafes, which are introduced in "New Feelings Women's Cafe-Deacon Coffee Men's Coffee Overview".

Maid Misunderstanding

Is COSPLAY Maid Cafe or Izakaya serving custom services?

The answer is wrong.

Some people who do not understand the situation may misunderstand that COSPLAY Maid Cafe or Izakaya is a place where custom services are provided. This may be due to the fact that some places that provide customs and erotic services sometimes have shop assistants wearing maid or COSPLAY clothing.

In fact, because some customers misunderstand this, many maid cafes are troubled, and they posted notices in the store. Guests entering the store must follow the rules in the store to enter.

Notes for maids entering the store

1 About taking pictures

Maid shop in comics

General COS or maid cafes are forbidden to take pictures at will. If you want to take a picture, it is best to see if there is a notice posted in the store, and then ask the "maid" (clerk). Generally speaking, food or friends taking photos with each other will be allowed, but in order to avoid disputes over portrait rights, please be careful not to take pictures of the staff and other guests. After taking the picture, ask the nearby staff (usually there will be a clerk standing to confirm when the customer takes pictures) to help confirm whether there will be a problem.

If you agree to take a picture with the staff, please be careful not to take other guests. The photos you take must not be posted on the Internet without permission.

2 About smoking

Depending on the store, there are two types of completely non-smoking and smoking areas. For details, please pay attention to the in-store notice.

3 Other considerations

Because this type of cafe is not a custom business, it does not provide custom services and prohibits any riots against the clerk (maid or COSER).

Domestic Anime Maid Coffee Shop

Maid-themed animation shop in the mainland of China (68 photos)

For reference: "My Maid Theme Anime Shop in Mainland China" and "Maid Theme Anime Shop in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan".

Status of Maid-Themed Anime Shops in Mainland China

Recent situation: In fact, in recent years, maid culture has gradually declined. Even Japanese maid shops are not as beautiful as before. Maybe it is because people s interests and tastes have changed, or because the service and catering forms of maid shops have not changed much. reason. Even domestic maid shops are not as many as before (especially there are more maid shops that do not understand maid culture for a certain period of time). Basically, maid shops have closed down in recent years, and some shops have not even opened. Closed early in six months.

In addition, most of the domestic maid shops only learned the surface fur of Japanese maid shops, and thought that the maids would be called maid shops when they installed suites of maids; a few comics and hand-made shops were called anime shops. There are many special store clothes that are not designed by their own stores, so they just approved a bunch of explosive performance clothes as shop clothes on the Internet. The quality is not very good, so people do nt leave a special impression. In addition, because of clothing quality and matching problems (For example, X, X stockings, X flip-flops) cause people who do not understand to misunderstand that it is related to pornography.

China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan maid-themed animation shops (36 photos)

And recruiting clerks as long as "high value and good figure will sell cute", other skills and service attitude is not the point. There is no interactive game link with the Japanese maid shop. For example, when they serve dishes, they will make interactive games of "delicious magic" to make the atmosphere hot, and the service attitude is very cold. They will only say when guests enter and leave the shop. A few general greetings, the order is ignored and the guests are ignored. Completely worse than the average restaurant service. As for the food, it is also very ordinary and has no characteristics, and the charge is completely inversely proportional to the quality; the lack of publicity of the store, and the local ACGN culture is not thriving, leading to a small number of counterparts and other problems also led to the maid shop closing early. ^[3]