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The restaurant is a trick too.

You can immediately enter ikea and go to the restaurant to eat reasonably priced food.

However, you can't go there to eat and then just leave.

The route from the entrance to the restaurant is a trap. The escalator is one-way, and the elevator has no button to get back down.

The only way out of the restaurant is down the stairs to the long shopping maze.

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Weird. The one near me has some stairs as well as the escalators (and I think a lift nearby too), so you can just go straight up to the restaurant and then straight out if you want... The stairs also go down to the market hall area so you don't have to go through the labyrinth upstairs if you don't want to.

> and the elevator has no button to get back down.

At my ikea that's true, but if you get on at the 2nd floor someone will inevitably be on the bottom floor to summon the elevator.

You can go straight to the checkout from the bottom of the food stairs, secret shortcut

in my store, the stairs next to the restaurant led to the beginning of the downstairs maze.

I've been to quite a few IKEAs in both Italy and Germany, never experienced anything remote like this - there are always shortcuts, and they are often quite clearly labeled.

Is this a US thing?

Find the elevator. They’ll have one for ADA and they go up and down.

the food is subsidized by the odds that you'll buy something on your way out?

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