日本酒館生意經：可愛的猴子當服務員，香蕉變工資

The Kayabukiya Tavern looks like any other traditional-style Japanese 'sake-house' restaurant.
這家名爲“Kayabukiya”的酒館和其他傳統風格的日本清酒屋餐館看起來差不多。

However, once you walk into the modest premises in Utsunomiya, Tochigi prefecture it quickly becomes apparent that human waiters have been replaced by Macaque monkeys.
然而，一旦你走進這處位於日本栃木縣宇都宮市的普通酒館內，你立即發現原來這裏的服務員已經被獼猴取而代之。

Seventeen-year-old Fuku-chan was ushered into the role after she delivered a napkin to a table uNPRompted, mimicking Yat-chan, the original Macaque waiter.
17歲的獼猴阿福模仿最早的獼猴服務員阿陳主動地給餐桌上的客人遞餐巾紙，而後“進入角色”。

Restaurant owner, Kaoru Otsuka, then decided to pair her with Yat-chan.
於是酒館的老闆大冢馨決定讓阿福和阿陳一起做服務員。

People come from all four corners of the world to be served by the simian and now video footage has caught her in action, showing a typical day at work.
來自世界各地的人們體驗到獼猴的服務，現在有錄像片段記錄了阿福的活動，展示了她日常工作的一天。

Viewers can see Fuku-chan, dressed in a chequered waiter's shirt and skirt, bringing guests a beer and fetching napkins for diners.
觀衆可以看到，身穿格子服務員T恤和裙子的阿福，正在給顧客送啤酒、取餐巾紙。

But the veteran waitress is prone to mistakes, she was captured spilling a bowl full of peas as she runs to a table.
但是這位經驗豐富的服務員也容易犯錯誤，她在跑向一桌客人時，把整整一碗豌豆灑了出來。

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.
如果阿福和她年輕的同伴工作表現出色的話，酒館老闆會鼓勵顧客給一些大豆作爲小費，而老闆也會給它們喂香蕉作爲報酬。

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.
酒館老闆大冢馨在日光山的自然棲息地裏看到這些猴子後就挑選出了它們，並表示：“它們比我的家人還要親。我整日地和它們在一起，連睡覺也是一起。一旦我開始照顧它們，就不會隨意丟棄了。”

'They are just way too cute.'
“它們真是太可愛了。”

Monkeys have been working at the bar for some 29 years, reports 28 Lab.
據28實驗室欄目報道，這些獼猴已經在這個酒館工作了大約29年。