Toilet-Themed Restaurant Launched in LA

The Magic Restroom restaurant billed as the USA’s first toilet-themed eatery where patrons sit on ceramic bathroom bowls and eat from toilet- shaped tableware, has just opened in Los Angeles and is packing in diners after a wave of free publicity for the concept, said to be imported from Asia.

Some might wonder who would want to eat surrounded by reminders of where the food ends up. But Friday’s grand opening was by all accounts a huge success, fuelled by media interest from around the world.

“Business for the past couple of days has been very good. It’s always a full house with customers waiting in the lobby,” said waiter Daniel Chyan as diners bustled around him.

The idea comes from Taiwan, he said.  “The food we serve here its actually normal, it’s typical Taiwanese food, for example beef stew noodle,” he added.

The toilet theme extends, perhaps inevitably, to the menu, with dishes on offer including “black poop” (chocolate sundae), “smells-like-poop” (pork over rice), and “bloody number two” (vanilla- strawberry sundae).

A random poll of customers suggested that the eatery has the right ingredients for success.

Denesse Elias said her chicken was served in a urinal while a shrimp rice order came in a small toilet.

“It was kind of weird at first eating from them,” she said. “But the food was really good so it didn’t make a difference.”

The launch has made toilet humour headlines around the world, including “Owners of ‘Restroom Cafe’ flush with success” (The Washington Post).

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