Abby Connolly
Then, she went to him and asked for a table for six without a reservation. She said she wouldn’t need a reservation because she knows the owner and knows he keeps a few tables open each night for high-profile customers.
“Now, generally, this is true of many high-profile restaurants, and lately, I have been doing that as well,” he explained.
“But I had no clue who this woman was, and she definitely never spoke to me about any of this. I did get [that] she was trying to get in without a reservation, but she literally picked the worst person she could possibly talk to and try this.”
When he tried explaining that the woman and her friends couldn’t get a table without a reservation, she became pretty threatening, telling her friends she’d speak to the ‘owner’ and get him fired.
Then and there, he knew he needed to put this woman in her place but do so subtly.
He decided to seat her and her friends at one of those VIP tables and give them a round of free drinks, acting as if he had made a mistake.
“They ordered two more rounds by the time the appetizers arrived,” he recalled.
“At this point, they are all drunk, having done nothing but drink on an empty stomach most of the night and only having salads after. As more food arrives, more drinks are ordered. What these girls never realized was they are at our VIP table, which alone costs a few thousand just to sit in.”
Queen B Karen and her friends also ordered a lot of food from the special, high-end menu offered to VIP diners and a lot more fancy cocktails after the ones given to them for free.
For a moment, he considered stopping the women from ordering more, knowing they were racking up a bill that cost thousands of dollars. However, they reassured him that this was necessary, as their behavior worsened as the night progressed.
One of the women asked him if he felt “worthless” because all he “ever became was a waiter.” Later, one of his employees told him they overheard the women discussing how they could mess with him throughout the night.
