A bizarre incident has come to light from a café in Hokkaido, Japan where a waitress was fired for adding her blood to a cocktail, perhaps taking the expression of pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into their work too literally. The cafe’s management apologised for the incident calling it “part-time job terrorism” and said that it was “absolutely not acceptable”.


The Mondaiji Con Cafe Daku, loosely translated as the Problem Child Dark Cafe, on April 2 took to Twitter and informed that it had dismissed an employee for adding her blood to a cocktail



According to a report by Straight Times, the incident came to light reportedly when a customer raised the matter.


The concept cafe’s gimmick is to hire “mentally unstable” and “problematic” girls as waitresses with dark, goth-style make-up, the report stated while mentioning that the place had opened in March in the Susukino entertainment district of Sapporo city.


As per the report, customers pay 2,500 yen (S$25) an hour to drink all they want.


In its tweet, the cafe also revealed that it closed down for a day to replace the drinking glasses at its premises.


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The Strait Times cited Japanese news site Flash which spoke to a doctor about the incident.


“Drinking the blood of other people is an extremely dangerous act,” Dr Zento Kitao told Flash which was the first to report the incident.


“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. If there are wounds in the mouth, it is easy to be infected by blood transmissions,” the doctor informed.


He pointed out that medical personnel treat the handling of blood very carefully such as during operation they take measures to avoid patients’ blood from splattering into doctors’ eyes.


Dr Kitao was reported as recommending that the dismissed employee and customers who drank her blood-infused cocktails should take a blood test.


 “Cafe using only problem children turned out to be too much of a problem,” the Strait Times quoted a commenter as saying.