‘Blow Your Anger’ Pub!
I bumped into this story in a local daily a couple of days ago.
An entreprenuer opened a pub in Nanjing, not far from Beijing, China last April 2006. Well, this is not the usual and normal pub we can find around.
Besides serving drinks, patrons at Rising Sun Anger Release Bar are allowed to release their tense and anger by breaking glasses, yelling, screaming and… treating the waiters as punching bags… for a certain fees, of course!!
The bar staffs which consist of 20 young and tough men are physically well trained to take hits and equipped with safety and padded gears. In addition to this, the customers will have the opportunities to ask these waiters to wear the costumes to their choices. E.g: If the customer is somehow mad or ‘pissed-off’ with his/her boss, the waiters shall dress like a boss! Then, the waiter in the boss costume is all his/hers!
The bar charges ranges from 50 to 300 yuan (approximately $5.50 to $35) depending to the customer’s requests!
The most interesting fact since its opening in April this year is that most of its customers are females who work in the services and entertainment industry such as the karaoke and massage parlours!
In interviews conducted by the China Daily, there have been critiques that the idea to hit someone who dresses as their boss might be interesting to some quarters, but it is concluded that violence will not solve any problems!
What a wonderful world, isn’t it?
