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A cute video has emerged from Japan of a bar which employs monkeys as a waiters.

The bizarre footage, which was captured at Kayabuki bar in Utsunomiya on May 27, shows a smartly dressed macaque monkey bringing customers beer and napkins.

The owner of the bar, Kaoru Otsuka, was first given a monkey many years ago by an acquaintance and the monkey began to help in the bar of its own accord.

Otsuka has now been in business for 29 years.

Utsunomiya, Tochigi prefecture, Japan. Kaoru Otsuka, who runs a bar called Kayabuki, saw the monkeys at Nikkō one day and could not forget how cute they were, so he took some monkeys off of an acquaintance’s hands. After that, his monkeys started to help wait on his customers of their own accord, so his bar started to draw some attention. Then, both domestic and foreign media outlets started reporting on them and business picked up perhaps a little too much. Before he knew it, his little bar became a hit and has been going strong for 29 years. (Filmed on 27th May, 2017)

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