Lucky Cat Café

The Lucky Cat Café is the name of a famous bakery and coffee shop located in San Fransokyo. The building has been around since the early 1900s and has been through multiple owners^[1], but in the modern day, it is owned by Aunt Cass. While Cass' café comprises the first floor, the second and third floors serve as the Hamada family home. The garage is used by Hiro and the rest of Big Hero 6 as an occasional workplace and headquarters.

Layout[]

The building is three stories tall, located on the corner of a steep hill street. On the outside, it is decorated with Maneki-Neko cat figurines on the shillings and flower pots on the windows.

First Floor/Bakery and Coffee Shop[]

Big-hero-6-disneyscreencaps — Cass stops Hiro at the entrance.

The café is the common entrance for customers and the Hamada family; inside are many Japanese and feline-inspired decorations: Fish, cherry blossoms, and miniature Japanese lanterns clutter the walls and ceilings while cat-shaped items decorate the interior. By the end of the movie, a new TV screen was also set up on one of the walls.

Behind the restaurant are the front door, the stairs leading to the second and third floors, and a door leading to the stockroom. There is also a pantry where Cass stores multiple sets of knives she won from competing in Food Fight.

Garage/Home Laboratory[]

The garage is only accessible from an alley behind the building. The door has a traditional Japanese scene painted on the inside. The place was repurposed by Hiro and Tadashi into a makeshift tech lab, and it is there where they work on their assignments and projects. Hiro pulls all-nighters in the garage when working on his most ambitious projects, and the place also served as the brothers' common space during the periods they would not be inventing.

The place is cluttered with inventions, bicycles, tools, and machines designed by Hiro and Tadashi over the years, as well as the home's water tank/boiler, a corkboard, and even a vending machine. There is also much more sophisticated equipment than what is found in Hiro and Tadashi's bedroom: There are three computers and a Krei Tech HoloCAD, one 3D printer, one small table, 2 different seats (one with wheels and one without), a red couch, and what appears to be a hoverboard.

The garage is first shown when Hiro began work on his Microbots project. This place was also a temporary headquarters for the Big Hero 6 team.

Second Floor/Cass's Bedroom[]

The second floor is the living room and the common kitchen. Notably, there are many family portraits hung on the walls, hinting at the Hamada family's history. There is also a TV which the family uses when they hold movie nights.

Cass's personal space is also a separate room on the second floor. It is decorated mostly with cat-themed accessories. She also has her own computer and bed, a bookshelf, and a dressing table that has a mirror and several light bulbs. Mochi's bed is also found here. The bedroom is first seen in "Food Fight".

Third Floor/Hiro and Tadashi's Bedroom[]

The final floor of the building is used for Hiro and Tadashi's bedroom; currently, it is just Hiro's room ever since Tadashi died. Inside the room, there is quite a lot of engineering equipment and tools: 2 computers, a lot of different bookshelves, one unused aquarium (or probably not used anymore), 2 beds (one for Hiro and one for Tadashi), and one huge clock with a robot in the middle of it, where the robot's arms act as the clockwise. However, this clock has been broken since its first appearance in the movie, and the clockwise never moves, even once. Baymax's charging dock is also located in the room ever since he was moved in from the San Fransokyo Institute of Technology following Tadashi's death.

Business[]

Originally, Cass was the sole worker in the café. The shop opens every day but was closed on one occasion when the family mourned Tadashi's passing.

There is an ATM available in the shop.

Since the events of "Fred's Bro-Tillion", they offer catering services. In the same episode, it is shown that Cass' coffee machine was becoming defective, but at the end of it, Hiro gifts her a new, steam-powered machine made with machine pieces from Baron Von Steamer's lair.

In the final episode of Big Hero 6: The Series, Hiro takes Noodle Burger Boy, Hyper-Potamus, Hangry Panda and Crushroom after purging their villainous programming, and they are turned into workers at the café, filling different roles and making Cass' job easier while the robots themselves enjoyed their new lives as a family, even referring to Cass as their "mother".

Menu[]

Lucky Cat Café hosts Japanese and American cuisine and some unique hybrid dishes.

Drinks		Meals			Specials & Goodies
Tea	Smoothies	Goodies	Sandwiches	Salads	Specialty Croissants	Macaron flavors	Pie flavors
Oolong China	Strawberry	Quiche	Ham & cheese	Egg salad	Extra butter	Salted caramel	Orange
Matcha green tea	Strawberry Kiwi	Macarons	Turkey	Chicken salad	White chocolate	Vanilla lavender	Pear
Sakura green tea	Strawberry Banana	Raspberry tart	Roast beef	Red pepper goat cheese		Custard	Rhubarb
Coffee	Peach/Blueberry	Cinnamon twist	Beef dip	Ahi Tuna		Cinnamon
Boba tea	Acai/Blackberry	Cookies	Chicken salad	Chicken Caesar		Milk tea
	Cherry/Rhubarb	Coffee cake	Egg salad	Almond chicken		Strawberry milk
		Orange sponge cake	Pastrami	Steak salad		Salted caramel
		Lavender tart	Reuben	Bacon salad
		Scones	BLT
		"El Diablo" spicy nachos	PLT

Other Versions[]

Baymax manga[]

Lucky Cat Café appears in the Baymax manga. Being a different canon than the film, it is only presented as the Hamadas' home, although there are hints that it still serves as the coffee shop (despite never being shown as such throughout the story). The building retains the same design as the movie.

Cameos[]

The café is referenced in another Disney film: Zootopia, in the form of a different restaurant with the same name, spotted in Little Rodentia.

Trivia[]

The café gets it name from the maneki-neko cat (meaning "beckoning cat" or more commonly "lucky cat"), a common Japanese figurine often thought to bring good luck to the owner by its raised right paw. Incidentally, it is commonly depicted as a Japanese bobtail, the same breed of cat as Mochi.
In some early movie drafts, Sweet Bean Coffee was the shop's original name. Concept art also showed Honey Lemon working as a barista in it.
A real Victorian home in San Franscisco's Haight-Ashbury district served as a model for the Lucky Cat Café.
There are certain objects in Hiro's room as easter eggs and references to other franchises:
- There is a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller connected to Hiro's computer.
- He has a poster of an early concept version of Mr. Sparkles in the same area.
- In the film, on top of his computer's screen, there is a toy figure of Wreck-It Ralph, a fellow Disney character.
- A Dalek-like action figure (from Doctor Who) can be spotted on the shelf.
Evening poetry readings are held at the café.^[2]
After hours, the café is also where Aunt Cass fuels her bad habit of "stress eating".