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INTEREST: California Business Owner Holds Poll for Maid Café

Good luck trying to get one open, I don't know if it will last long or will open in California at all. Maybe if it was a K-pop themed cafe (since we're in a Korean Wave and K-pop is the latest trend after all) with pictures and wooden cutout of Girls Generation, 2NE1, BigBang, Super Junior, BoA, and other K-pop groups, that might work and can last longer depend on the hallyu. If this was the Japanese wave not the Korean wave, the maid cafe could've last in California for a long time.

EDIT: just found out a K-pop themed cafe specifically Super Junior-themed cafe to be exact was opened in Taiwan, maybe a K-pop themed cafe would work better in US then a maid cafe.

Previous attempts at a maid café in North America include Detroit's Chou Anime Café, which opened in June but closed its doors in September when it failed to achieve a steady stream of customers. Chou Anime Café was briefly the only operating maid café in the United States, after California's Royal/T Maid Café closed its doors in August. Similar past attempts included Far Out Toys in San Jose, California and the iMaid Café in Scarborough, Ontario. The iMaid Café opened in 2006 and closed in 2007 due to unpaid back rent.

This business owner in California better beware if he's going to bring a maid cafe to America. A lot of feminist groups are going to protest this thing if it ever opens. Groups like NOW (National Organization of Women) are going to say that this thing exploits women and they're going to try to get it shut down. Groups like this don't like Hooters. I don't eat at Hooters anyway,but they're going to do this anyway because they're going to see this as exploitative towards women. They'll also try to sue him. This guy had better get an army of lawyers.

I don't think K-pop is relavent on scene in the US outside of music, im sure theres plenty of interesting stuff koreans have to offer but maid cafe's are sure to attract the otaku's, im sure as heck down.

the japanese anime culture is still more prevalent than k-pop will be for a long time.

You're correct, I never heard of maid cafe facing any scrutiny from women right group (not even in Japan). Also, as I said, maid cafe is not hot right now outside of Japan. But as I said, a K-pop themed cafe would work better due to the hallyu/Korean Wave and that include K-pop getting more higher profile due to PSY.

mdo7 wrote:

You're correct, I never heard of maid cafe facing any scrutiny from women right group (not even in Japan). Also, as I said, maid cafe is not hot right now outside of Japan. But as I said, a K-pop themed cafe would work better due to the hallyu/Korean Wave and that include K-pop getting more higher profile due to PSY.

The only thing that your comments represent are BS fallacies fueled by opinionated disappointment that they are opening a Japanese Maid Cafe instead of a k-pop cafe (seriously, stop whining and get over it). You don't live in nor represent the neighborhood nor general area that this store will be in, nor do you represent the people who are within the target audience for this type of thing, so for you to act as if you do by making the blanket statement that people aren't interested in this is silly and makes you look like an idiot who is full of s&%t and has no idea what they are talking about.

As for the possibility of K-pop cafe in America,there are a lot of Koreans who live in America. So,while something like this might give them a taste of home in this country,I don't know how they would appeal to anyone outside of the Korean community here. While K-pop might be appealing in Europe and South America,it's going to have to work a little harder to win fans here. Besides,I don't know how many Koreans live in South America and Europe.

mdo7 wrote:

You're correct, I never heard of maid cafe facing any scrutiny from women right group (not even in Japan). Also, as I said, maid cafe is not hot right now outside of Japan. But as I said, a K-pop themed cafe would work better due to the hallyu/Korean Wave and that include K-pop getting more higher profile due to PSY.

The only thing that your comments represent are BS fallacies fueled by opinionated disappointment that they are opening a Japanese Maid Cafe instead of a k-pop cafe (seriously, stop whining and get over it). You don't live in nor represent the neighborhood nor general area that this store will be in, nor do you represent the people who are within the target audience for this type of thing, so for you to act as if you do by making the blanket statement that people aren't interested in this is silly and makes you look like an idiot who is full of s&%t and has no idea what they are talking about.

In my personal opinion, I feel that Maidreamin opening up a store in Little Tokyo represents "the best possible chance" for a Maid Cafe to succeed in the US, due to the fact that it has every possible advantage that it could have to help it succeed (will be within a Japanese-American community that fans of Japanese and Otaku culture love to frequent, has a unique concept that sets it apart from other Maid Cafes (even within Japan), will be managed by individuals who have run maid cafes in Japan and have extensive knowledge in what works and what doesn't with regards to them, will be the most "authentic" Maid Cafe that has ever opened within the U.S., will be in a general area (L.A.) where individuals are used to and don't mind paying relatively high prices for good food, atmosphere, and entertainment, etc.). Ultimately, I am crossing my fingers for it to succeed and will visit the Little Tokyo store when it opens.

Well do you listen to K-pop or know how big K-pop popularity is? Yeah that's what I thought, you have no idea. I already mention that K-pop is getting popular around the world. It has a big fanbases and I think it's big enough that a K-pop themed cafe could be made and it could last depend on the hallyu. I'm not even sure if a maid cafe could survive in this day and period because well it's not popular or hot outside of Japan.

You are so uninformed that I had to make an account just to tell you why you're wrong. I'm a fan of both anime and kpop, although i listen to jpop more, but I won't deny that kpop and the korean wave is MUCH bigger at the moment. You obviously have no clue if you think Koreans are the only people who listen to kpop. As mdo7 noted, kpop/drama is getting huge in South America, Asia, and now Europe. Multiple acts have been holding huge concerts in sold out 40k+ stadiums all over the world, and if you actually looked at the vids/pics, you would notice that the majority are NOT korean. They're mostly whites, latinos, and other non-korean asians.

Just look at the youtube views as a very crude indicator. Even if you take out gangnam style (which didn't do much for the kpop wave imo), the most watched kpop vids are in the 100s of millions while you can't find any jpop/anime vid anywhere close to that. As much as I like anime, I have to admit that the korean wave is much stronger currently, and you are highly delusional or misinformed if you think kpop is some super niche culture that only koreans listen to. Just watch the kpop concert in paris last year, and you'll see majority white fans screaming in the stadium.