2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：French Maids Lure Diners to Cartoon-inspired Café

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　　1.What did the servers wear in the eatery? ...
        　　2.What did the owner of the eatery call the waitresses? ...
        　　3.Form what did the owner get the idea? A piece of ... about a maid cosplay
restaurant in China.
        　　A tiny eatery decorated almost completely in black and white is creating a
big buzz in Toronto but it’s not the decor getting attention — it’s the servers,
who all wear French maid outfits. With servers in black mini-skirts, long socks
and white aprons, the cafe is believed to be the first in Canada to mimic the
cartoon-inspired restaurants devoted to “costume play”, or cosplay that first
appeared in Japan a few years ago. Owner Aaron Wang, 24, who opened the iMaid
Cafe this summer, got the idea for the theme after seeing a piece about a maid
cosplay restaurant on the television news in China. “I call them maids not
waitresses,” said Wang, who moved to Canada from Beijing six years ago. Cosplay,
which originated in Japan, is a combination of the words “costume” and “play”.
In cosplay, people dress as characters from Japanese animation, as well as
graphic manga novels and video games. Wang wanted to open a restaurant that
would be different from other traditional Hong Kong and Chinese restaurants in
Toronto, a cosmopolitan city where two million of the 4.6 million people are
foreign born. The largest minority group is the Chinese population, which is
410,000. He ordered the costumes from Japan at a cost of about $200 each. “I
want people to come to the restaurant and to feel like home,” he said, adding
that about 70 percent of his clientele is Asian.