The Meow Meow Who Sells Coffee Story Essay

A simple and modern room, a cup of coffee, a cat in your arms, and a cozy afternoon.

Recently, the U.S. magazine Forbes published an article saying that the cat cafe loved by the Japanese people has finally become "a cat cafe loved by people around the world". Since March 2014, when the first cat cafe "Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium" opened in London, England, the cute and adorable meow star has made its way to California, New York, Singapore and other places to usher in an international spring.

The healing cat waiter has gradually become another reason for literary and artistic young people to go to the cafe.

The cat's cure

"This is the Persian cat Aobay, looks fierce actually a love child. The Scottish Fold lying in the nest is Sweetie, the goddess of Aobay. That one is Little Q, the cheese cat, oh, and Thunder Gong, the leopard cat with the highest IQ we have here." Tommy house famous cat house owner rice mother to the reporter introduced to the cafe a few star cats, aside two cat-loving female customers while taking pictures while listening to the excitement.

On a weekday afternoon, despite the plummeting temperatures in Shanghai, the popularity of the famous cat café has not diminished by half. From time to time, students and white-collar workers enter the cafe to laugh and play with the famous cats. In the spacious store, customers can choose to sit at a table and enjoy a quiet meal, or sit around the floor to enjoy close contact with the cats.

Customers who are strangers to each other in the famous cat house are enjoying themselves, and don't have the same sense of restraint as they would in a normal public ****ing venue. Some customers sit around on the floor and try to play the little game of "cat's paw is always on" with baby Scottish Folds, and many customers hold a beloved cat in their arms, quietly drinking coffee, watching movies, chatting with their companions and lazing around.

It was thought that the customers here might be cat-crazy women, but in fact they cover all social classes, they may be fashionable people, or professionals of different backgrounds. For many of the customers who love cat cafes, it doesn't matter what they eat or drink in a cat café, but rather the warm and healing atmosphere that is unique to cat cafes.

Professor Katsutoshi Firiki of the Natural Life Sciences Research Assistance Center at Okayama University in Japan believes that people and animals together do not have the kind of tension that exists between people. And to many people, pets are even irreplaceable like family.

Popular all over the world

It is understood that the cat cafe was first born in Taipei in 1998, and then quickly became popular after it was introduced to Osaka, Japan in 2004. Now, cat cafes are especially loved by Japanese nationals.

Japan is a cat culture deep country. In Japanese culture, cats are honored as "gods", guarding grain stores, ships, and even the silkworm industry, and there are "cat shrines" in Tokushima Prefecture in Japan for people to worship.

At the same time, the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun said that the Japanese Yamato nation is the most lonely nation in the world. In the opinion of the famous Japanese blogger Iba (sound), cats can help human beings to relieve tension and depression, which is the economic downturn, struggling Japanese people need the most. Therefore, even the popularity of maid cafes, which were a hit in Japan back in the day, cannot match that of cat cafes.

Driven by Japan, cat cafes took Asia by storm, but it wasn't until last year that cat cafes finally entered the European and American markets and quickly captured the hearts of European and American customers.

In 2014, the number of cat cafes around the world increased dramatically, and in March 2014, the first cat cafe in London, Lady Dinah's Cat Emporium, attracted 3,000 bookings on its website when it announced its upcoming opening, paralyzing the website for a time. On the day of the opening, there were many cat lovers waiting outside the store.

The Cat City Cafe, which opened in Oakland, California, in October, was also popular with cat lovers who enjoyed coffee, and was crowded every day after it opened. Meow Parlour, a cat café in New York, opened in December. Cat cafes are popping up in Denver, Portland, Oregon and San Diego. Forbes magazine even suggested that they could soon become a new trend in the United States.

Unlike Japanese cat cafes, which are designed to cure loneliness and relieve depression and tension in humans, these cafes in the U.S. are intended to find suitable adopters for cats. "Both Meow Parlour and Cat City Cafe have partnered with local animal rescue organizations to find permanent homes for the cats.

Among the many cat cafes in Shanghai, there are those that continue the traditional healing route, as well as innovators that focus on adoption from Europe and the US. In Tommy's House famous cat cafe, which uses the famous cat cure as a marketing point, many customers marvel at the cats' beautiful body and elegant gait, and the fluffy touch in their arms is very comfortable. The mother of rice even made a micro letter text for each cat in the famous cat museum to introduce their respective personalities, anecdotes and love stories, so that even if the customer is thousands of miles away can be warm and healing.

The cat cafe is not easy to manage

As an early entrant into the cat cafe industry in Shanghai, Ms. Mi said, "After 2012, there were more cat cafe's in Shanghai all of a sudden, and the quality of the stores was not uniform."

A cat cafe in Xuhui District has a strong animal odor that greets customers as they enter. The cafe is small, but there are a lot of cats, and after the meal, the reporter is almost surrounded by cats eating, and a little inattention may have to enjoy the food with cats ****.

This may not be a problem for cat lovers, but for customers experiencing a cat cafe for the first time, it's a real test. Customers Xiaoyan confessed to the reporter, see cats all the time in the side of the ghost, jumping up and down, but also eyeing their own food both fear and feel at a loss.

In other areas, the problem of cat cafes is even more serious. There are reports that in Shenyang, Ms. Wang and her best friend rushed to a cat-themed cafe, but unexpectedly two meters away from the store, smelled a pungent smell of cat poop and urine mixed. At the door, the owner asked to take off their shoes to enter. Inside the door is a duplex apartment, the first floor bedroom floor put a mattress, a few chairs, next to the captive seven or eight different breeds of cats. The second floor also has a few cats in cages, the smell is more pungent than the first floor. At this time, a cat suddenly squatted on the ground and kept vomiting. The store owner nervously went up to check and explained, "Maybe it just chewed on the rattan chair and broke its stomach." After the cat vomited, lying on the mattress, not long and vomited again.