1. Robot Couple Restaurant: In Yiwu, eastern China, the locals were astonished when they realized that a restaurant was running 21 hours a day with a very busy period throughout the day. It seemed impossible for normal humans to carry out such a task. Later, it was revealed it was run by two identical couples which people often misunderstood as one.
2. MaDonal: Iraq being a center of hostile activities, McDonald’s found it unworthy to run their chain there. To deal with that, a man from Northern Iraq opened a restaurant named MaDonal, a replica of McDonald’s, where he serves items like “Big Macks”. He is threatened by local terrorists often because he offers free food to the U.S. Forces.
3. In Denver, there is a restaurant which does specify the prices of the food items in the menu and people are welcome to pay what they can for the meal. It was established with a view to provide food even to the homeless people so that if they have nothing at all to pay, they can have food in exchange for 1 hour of help in the restaurant.
4. In Vietnam, a restaurant offers Cobra Wine wherein the waiter would bring a live cobra in front of you and kill it. Then he would drain its blood into a glass of rice wine and add the beating heart of the cobra to the top of the glass for you.
5. Kayabuki Restaurant: A restaurant in Japan was unable to hire any staff because of lack of funds so to ease their work, they hired two trained monkeys instead. To have an appearance like humans, they wear clothes, masks, and wigs like humans to look more appealing. They serve the customers on a daily basis and have been certified to work there.