America's First Toilet-Themed Restaurant
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Usually, it takes time for a new restaurant to end up in the toilet, but the Magic Restroom Cafe was already there before it opened.
The Magic Restroom Cafe in southern California's City of Industry is America's first toilet-themed eatery. All the dishes, seats and food items are all focused on toilets, bathrooms and human bodily functions.
Customers hoping for a crappy dining experience sit on stools topped with toilet seats and order appetizing menu items like "golden poop rice," "black poop" (actually a chocolate sundae), "smells-like-poop" (braised pork over rice)," and "bloody number two" (vanilla-strawberry sundae).
Those defecation-themed dishes are then serve in miniature toilets bowl, according to Eater L.A., which recommends the Stinky Tofu as the most appropriate food choice.
Owner YoYo Li is a first-time restaurateur from China who decided to open her comode theme restaurant after noticing the popularity of the Modern toilet restaurant chains in China and Taiwan, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Magic Restroom Cafe officially opened Oct. 11 and, so far, the decor is getting better reviews than the food.
It is averaging 3 stars on Yelp and most of the complaints are based on slow service (possibly from a backed-up kitchen) and cold food. The official grand opening is set for later in the month.
This is not a bathroom. It is a restaurant. A restroom-themed restaurant.
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US toilet restaurant rides 'poop' publicity wave
A restaurant billed as America's first toilet-themed eatery has just opened in Los Angeles -- and is packing in diners after a wave of free publicity for the concept, said to be imported from Asia.
The Magic Restroom restaurant, where customers sit on ceramic bathroom bowls and eat from toilet-shaped tableware, did brisk business on its first fully open weekend.
Some might wonder who would want to eat surrounded by reminders of where the food ends up. But Friday's grand opening was by all accounts a huge success, fueled by media interest from around the world.
"Business for the past couple of days has been very good. It's always a full house with customers waiting in the lobby," said waiter Daniel Chyan as diners bustled around him on Sunday.
The idea comes from Taiwan, he said.
"The food we serve here its actually normal, it's typical Taiwanese food, like for example beef stew noodle," he added.
The toilet theme extends, perhaps inevitably, to the menu, with dishes including "black poop" (chocolate sundae), "smells-like-poop" (braised pork over rice), and "bloody number two" (vanilla-strawberry sundae).
A random poll of customers Sunday suggested the eatery has the right ingredients for success.
Denesse Elias said her chicken was served in a urinal while a shrimp rice order came in a small toilet.
"It was kind of weird at first eating from them," she said. "But the food was really good so it didn't make a difference."
Tania Moore added: "I was like, Magic Restroom Cafe? What is that? And we walked in and there just were toilets everywhere. It was really interesting. It was cool."
Even a Frenchwoman, whose country is known for its demanding gastronomic standards, was impressed.
"The food is very well presented. It's in little toilets so it's quite funny," said Marjorie Decriem, who lives in Los Angeles.
"You have to choose your dishes carefully because some are more appetizing than others. But the food is very good. I think we will return with friends because it's really a place to discover."
The launch has made toilet humor headlines around the world, including "Owners of 'Restroom Cafe' flush with success" (The Washington Post) and "Poop for dinner? Restroom-themed eatery serves up unsavory-named dishes" (Daily Mail).
"Toilet restaurant: would loo believe it?" read another.
On its Facebook page, the Magic Restroom had nearly 1,100 "likes" by Monday, while some 700 people were talking about the restaurant.
But not everyone is convinced.
"What a disgusting theme for a restaurant," wrote Celia Yatawara. Bet you couldn't think of anything more adequate for meal time."
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If customer farts in the restaurant, got 20% off?
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Originally posted by charlize:
If customer farts in the restaurant, got 20% off?
The louder the fart, the more discount will be given.