Is it animal cruelty?

Cheap labor?

Or just a brilliant idea to get customers?

I’d say it’s the latter (at least til someone gets thier nose bit off).

A restaurant in Utsunomiya, just outside of Tokyo proper has two macaque monkeys that have been trained to retrieve beer and hot towels for the patrons.

While I think this might be the greatest restaurant ever due to my love of monkeys, I can see it being a risky move given that they are wild animals and that restaurants with monkeys might be some kind of a health hazard.

You can watch the hairy waiters in action in the video below.

How would you feel about being served by primates and do you think this is a wise thing to do?