This isn’t your typical Bloody Mary.
A waitress has been fired from a restaurant in Japan after allegedly creating a cocktail with her own blood at the request of a paying customer.
Mondaiji Con Cafe Daku, which loosely translates to Problem Child Dark Cafe, tweeted the disturbing news earlier this month. Management publicly apologized, calling the server’s actions “absolutely not acceptable.”
The anonymous employee allegedly infused her blood into the menu staple, dubbed orikaku, which is usually made with fruit or syrups.
According to a previously reported translation, restaurant management, who likened the server’s actions to “job terrorism,” closed down the business for a day to replace all of the contaminated glasses and dump any potentially tainted bottles of alcohol.
The restaurant owner tweeted their own apology on April 2, writing in part, “Once again, I am very sorry to have caused you trouble.”
The cafe apologized for the former employee’s actions and assured patrons all glasses would be replaced, according to a rough translation of the public apology via Twitter.
Waitstaff dress in gothic fashion, wearing dark clothes and makeup – signals of “mentally unstable” or “problematic” women, according to the restaurant – as part of the gimmick of Mondaiji, which bills itself as an all-you-can-drink establishment for a meager $19 cover (or 2,500 yen).
The cafe, which opened last month, is located in the city of Sapporo, in Hokkaido, the Straits Times reported.
“Drinking the blood of other people is an extremely dangerous act,” Dr. Zento Kitao told Japanese news site Flash, according to the Straits Times.
“Cases of people getting infected from drinking another person’s blood are rare, but major diseases can be transmitted through blood, including HIV, hepatitis C, hepatitis B and syphilis,” he added. “If there are wounds in the mouth, it is easy to be infected by blood transmissions.”
In a clinical setting, he noted, medical professionals take extra precautions and wear eye and face guards when handling bodily fluids such as blood. Kitao then publicly urged both the waitress and customers who ingested her blood to be tested for all kinds of blood-borne diseases.
The restaurant’s gimmick relies on goth waitresses who dress in dark clothes and makeup. Getty Images/iStockphotoThe culinary-based case bares resemblance to the so-called “sushi terrorism” of late, in which vandals purposefully contaminate the delicacy as it makes the rounds through an establishment on a conveyor belt. Last month, the delinquent behavior resulted in the arrest of three people.
