[Done] We Want Volunteers Who Can Help a Maid Cafe In Japan Festival Boston 2017!!

Hello cosplay lovers! We are in need of volunteers who can help a maid cafe during the Japan Festival Boston date 2017. If you are interested in working for the maid cafe you must have a maid costume, please check the information and requirement sections for more information. The application form below must be completed. Thank you for your interest in helping us!

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Information
Date: Sunday, April 30th, 2017
Time: 1 hour or more sometime between 11am to 5pm
Location: A Maid Cafe at Japan Festival at Boston Common (139 Tremont Street, Boston MA)
Costume: Maid costume to be worn during your hours
Job Description: Promoting the cafe to visitors (distributing flyers), helping with crowd control, helping full-time maids in serving coffee, etc.
Pay: Sorry, no payment. This is a voluntary work.

Requirements
As said above, you must have your own maid costume and wear it during your working hours. Enjoy being a kawaii maid 🙂

What is a maid cafe?
A maid cafe is a cafe/restaurant where waitresses wearing maid costumes treat customers as their masters/mistresses as if they worked in their customers’ homes. It is said that the first maid cafe was founded in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan.
Today you can find such cafes with the same concept in other areas of Japan and other asian countries. Generally, there are many traditions at maid cafes but one of the most important traditions is the greeting style.
Maids usually greet customers with “Welcome home, Master, Mistress, Madam, or Mademoiselle” when customers enter. It is also very common for the maids to say a spell like chant for the food, for example: “(the food) Becomes yummy” while serving food or drinks.

At our cafe we will only be selling hot coffee and pocky (a Japanese sweet pretzel) for take-out, although we will still chant some happy spells :)! Unfortunately we do not have enough space for an eat-in cafe.
Below is a YouTube video example although what happens in our maid cafe will be quite different due to space. But anyway, you can watch it for the real life experience of what maid cafe is!

Thank you Mira for your video!!!!!

Enjoy 🙂


What is the Japan Festival?
An outdoor “Matsuri” experience in Boston with over 30,000 attendees in 2015 and 60,000 attendees at the 2016 event, Japan Festival Boston has doubled in scale and brought over 100 booths presenting Japanese culture and food to Boston Common. At the 2017 event, we plan to bring over 100 booths with Japanese culture and food as the main focus, as well as both traditonal and contemporary performances. We will bring two stages, one for music performances and another hosting various cosplay events and performances as well.

Japan Festival Boston 2017

Application form