There's a restaurant in Japan using monkeys as waiters

Amazing and weird fact about Japan.

There's a restaurant in Japan using monkeys as waiters.

Monkey business: Japanese bar where you are served by a waitress who is cute, FURRY and paid in BANANAS

• A restaurant in Japan has been using Macaque monkeys as waiters for 29 years
• Footage shows Fuku-chan, dressed in a waiter's shirt and skirt, delivering beer
• Fuki-chan was ushered into the role after it took a napkin to diners unprompted
• People come from all four corners of the world to be served by the simians

The Kayabukiya Tavern looks like any other traditional-style Japanese 'sake-house' restaurant.

However, once you walk into the modest premises in Utsunomiya, Tochigi prefecture it quickly becomes apparent that human waiters have been replaced by Macaque monkeys.

Seventeen-year-old Fuku-chan was ushered into the role after she delivered a napkin to a table unprompted, mimicking Yat-chan, the original Macaque waiter. 

Restaurant owner, Kaoru Otsuka, then decided to pair her with Yat-chan.

People come from all four corners of the world to be served by the simian and now video footage has caught her in action, showing a typical day at work. 

Viewers can see Fuku-chan, dressed in a chequered waiter's shirt and skirt, bringing guests a beer and fetching napkins for diners.

But the veteran waitress is prone to mistakes, she was captured spilling a bowl full of peas as she runs to a table.

If Fuku-chan and her younger companions do a good job patrons of the restaurant are encouraged to leave a tip of soya beans while their owner feeds them bananas as payment. 

Otsuka, who sort the monkeys after seeing them in their natural habitat of the Nikkō mountains, said: 'They are closer than my family. I hold them all day and sleep with them. Once I started taking care of them I couldn't let go. 

'They are just way too cute.' 

Monkeys have been working at the bar for some 29 years.