Normally, visitors come to restaurants to find comfort and experience the feeling of being served attentively. Therefore, most restaurants choose a decor style that is both unique and attractive to customers. They provide good service and try to meet all needs with the motto "customer is king".
However, there are restaurants that provide the opposite kind of service. They serve high quality food and drinks. But, the attitude and service tend to bully and belittle customers.
Karen's Diner
The restaurant chain is named after a popular internet slang term. “Karen” is used to describe a stereotypical, conservative, middle-aged woman with a superior attitude. When unhappy, a “Karen” tends to yell and threaten waiters or waitresses.
The motto of Karen's Diner is to unleash your inner Karen. Guests are allowed to throw tantrums and call the manager at any time. As such, the restaurant staff will be rude and pick on you at every opportunity.
"Our staff are rude, we have no manners. This is the perfect place for Karens everywhere to vent their anger," the restaurant's website describes.
In particular, when registering for a table online, the restaurant will pay attention to the nationality of the tourist to choose sarcastic words to cause the most damage possible. For example, tourists with American nationality will receive a series of American-style jokes.
The staff at Karen's Diner are intentionally nasty and always try to annoy you.
Quality food at Karen's Diner.
The sarcastic introduction on the restaurant menu.
"Go ahead, get angry and complain. We mean it," Karen's Diner shares on its product website.
According to Dailymail, despite the deliberately bad service, the menu at Karen's Diner is very good and diverse. The restaurant serves a variety of hamburgers, chicken wings, fries as well as cocktails and beer. Karen's Diner also serves vegetarian food, but customers who order will have to endure a series of sarcasm from the waiters.
Karen's Diner opened its first store in World Square, George Street, Sydney. Karen's Diner now has a branch in the UK. Karen's Diner wants customers to release their emotions after days of confinement due to Covid-19.
Cafe CC Ocha
This is a maid cafe concept restaurant commonly seen in Japan. Normally, visitors will be taken care of as if they were real owners. The female staff will wear maid outfits and play with or listen to customers' whispers. However, Cafe CC Ocha offers a special service. The restaurant allows visitors to order a kick in the back.
For 1,800 yen (about 1,400 USD), you can make a maid change her attitude. She will become angry, call you a pervert, force you to kneel, and kick you in the back.
Customers pay money to be cursed and insulted.
Furthermore, the waitress will not hesitate to scold you, humiliate you in front of other people in the restaurant. They will also make you act like a dog and ignore you. Finally, you will receive a souvenir photo of you kneeling with the time and a cute drawing from the waitress.
However, many customers really enjoy the service and are willing to spend money to be scolded by the maids. Cafe CC Ocha first opened in 2014. Currently, this store is still operating and located in Osaka, Japan.
Dick's Last Resort
Dick's Last Resort is a restaurant chain with intentionally obnoxious staff. On its job board, Dick's is looking for someone who is cheerful, can handle the constant barrage of jokes, and can handle swearing at customers.
Dick's Last Resort puts a joke on each guest's hat.
The restaurant is intentionally decorated in a somewhat strange way, but still maintains a minimum of comfort for guests. The restaurant does not provide napkins, the staff will bring them and throw them straight at you.
In addition, during the meal, the staff will always tease and put on you a paper hat, with the most sarcastic sentence chosen for each guest. Currently, Dick's Last Resort is present in most major states in the US such as Texas, Florida, Illinois, Las Vegas,...
