This isn’t your typical Bloody Mary.
A waitress has been fired from a Japanese restaurant after creating a cocktail with her own blood allegedly at the request of a paying customer.
The cafe Mondaiji Con Cafe Daku, which loosely translates to “Problem Child Dark Cafe,” tweeted the disturbing news earlier this month. Management publicly apologized, calling her actions “absolutely not acceptable.”
The anonymous employee allegedly infused her blood into the menu staple, dubbed “orikaku,” which is usually made with fruit or syrups.
According to a previously reported translation, restaurant management, who likened the server’s actions to “job terrorism,” closed down the business for a day to replace all of the contaminated glasses and dump any potentially tainted bottles of alcohol.
The restaurant owner tweeted their own apology on April 2, writing in part, “Once again, I am very sorry to have caused you trouble this time.”
Waitstaff who dressed in gothic fashion or wore dark clothes and makeup – signals of “mentally unstable” or “problematic” women, according to the restaurant – were part of the gimmick of Mondaiji Con Cafe Daku, which prided itself as an all-you-can-drink establishment for a meager $19 (2,500 yen).
The cafe, which opened last month, is located in the city of Sapporo, in Hokkaido, the Strait Times reported.
“Drinking the blood of other people is an extremely dangerous act,” Dr. Zento Kitao told Japanese news site Flash, according to the Strait Times.
“Cases of people getting infected from drinking another person’s blood are rare, but major diseases can be transmitted through blood, including HIV, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and syphilis,” he added. “If there are wounds in the mouth, it is easy to be infected by blood transmissions.”
In a clinical setting, he noted, medical professionals take extra precautions and wear eye and face guards when handling bodily fluids such as blood. Dr. Kitao then publicly urged both the waitress and customers who ingested her blood to be tested for all kinds of blood-borne diseases.
The culinary-based case bares resemblance to the so-called “sushi terrorism” of late, where patrons purposefully contaminate the conveyor belt delicacy. Last month, the delinquent behavior resulted in the arrest of three people.