The Cafe full of memories recommends that Shanghai memory Cafe employ an 80-year-old grandmother as a shop assistant.

What will you be doing when you are 82?

Today, there is such a topic on Weibo that has attracted everyone's attention.

There is a unique cafe in Shanghai, which is staffed by a group of elderly grandmothers. The cafe, located at 717 Juye Road in Shanghai, employs an 80-year-old grandmother as a clerk, Xinmin Evening News reported. The cafe, called memory Cafe, is the first cafe in the country to provide immersive intervention experience for the elderly with cognitive impairment.

The cafe has been open for nearly a year now, and unlike most cafes on the market, memory Cafe is a coffee shop that invites elderly people with cognitive impairment as volunteers. The original purpose of opening such a cafe is to help these elderly people with cognitive impairment to build memories and broaden their interpersonal communication circle. "memory Cafe" provides these elderly people with the opportunity to communicate with guests and use their brains.

Peng Ava, a volunteer who works in a coffee shop, said: working in a coffee shop can deal with a lot of people and become more active, so I chose to work here.

At ordinary times, Grandma Peng and other "old baby" volunteers can complete the cashier, coffee brewing, service guidance and other work in the store.

Volunteer Peng Ava also said: "the people who come to drink coffee are very nice. If we sometimes have a small situation, forget things or slow down, the guests are also very tolerant and understanding." Related news shows that the "memory Cafe" currently has a total of 18 "elderly volunteers", of whom the oldest is 82.

In response, cafe manager Yang Minhui said: these elderly people have a relatively fixed service schedule every week, and each service time will be adjusted according to their physical condition, about 1-2 hours. In order to ensure the safety of these elderly volunteers, there are also young volunteers at the scene. In addition, the coffee shop also offers coffee brewing classes every week to build a learning and exercise platform for these elderly volunteers, so the "memory Cafe" has been commented by many netizens as a "coffee shop with temperature". Netizens also expressed support: "in fact, it's good, if you still have the strength to go out and work, it's good for your health."

In the past, there have been "elderly employees" at Starbucks in Japan. Unlike the above-mentioned elderly volunteers, an elderly employee named Shengzi Yamada chose to work for the first time in his life at the age of 76. Katsuko Yamada worked as a housewife at home before joining Starbucks in Tokyo's Machida city for the first time at the age of 76.

In her daily work, "Yamada Katsuko" works two to three days a week at Starbucks, four hours a day, with an hourly salary of 1020 yen, or about 65 yuan. Although "Yamada Katsuko" was too old when she joined the job, she was affirmed by Starbucks employees just a week after joining the job. Some Starbucks employees said: Yamada used to be a housewife, so she has her own skills in washing things. And said he would learn from her.

Starbucks in Japan has also developed a more humane employment system for older employees, such as shorter working hours and relatively friendly wages. In the report, Yamada said that as long as he can keep up with his physical strength and need him here, he will continue to work.

Last. Although the senior volunteers of the memory Cafe do not work for the same purpose as the oldest employees of Starbucks, it is admirable to keep working at the age of 80. The last. Will people choose to go to the cafe that hires an 80-year-old grandmother for coffee? In other words, when you reach the legal retirement age, are you willing to come out to work when you are 80? Photo source: online coffee bean information, please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) professional coffee knowledge exchange, please add Wechat kaixinguoguo0925