Typically, tourists visit restaurants seeking comfort and attentive service. Therefore, most restaurants choose a unique and visually appealing decor style. They provide excellent service and strive to meet all needs with the motto "the customer is king."
However, some restaurants offer the opposite kind of service. They serve high-quality food and drinks, but their attitude and service tend to be bullying and dismissive of customers.
Karen's Diner
This restaurant chain is named after a recently popular internet slang term. "Karen" describes a stereotype of a conservative, older woman with a condescending attitude. When unhappy, a "Karen" tends to yell at and intimidate waiters or receptionists.
Karen's Diner's philosophy is to unleash your inner "Karen." Guests are free to get angry and call the manager at any time. Therefore, the restaurant staff will be impolite and tease you whenever possible.
"Our staff are rude, we don't know how to behave. This is the perfect place for Karen from everywhere to come and vent her anger," the restaurant's website describes.
In particular, when making online reservations, restaurants will pay attention to the nationality of the diner to choose sarcastic remarks that are as hurtful as possible. For example, a diner of American nationality will receive a barrage of sarcastic remarks typical of American culture.
The staff at Karen's Diner are deliberately unpleasant and constantly try to annoy you.
The food at Karen's Diner is of good quality.
The restaurant's menu featured a sarcastic introduction.
"Come on, get angry and complain. We did it on purpose," Karen's Diner shared on its product website.
According to Dailymail, despite the deliberately poor service, the menu at Karen's Diner is high-quality and diverse. The restaurant serves a variety of hamburgers, chicken wings, fries, as well as cocktails and beer. Notably, Karen's Diner also serves vegetarian food, but customers who order vegetarian options will be met with sarcastic remarks from the staff.
Karen's Diner opened its first store in World Square, George Street, Sydney. Currently, Karen's Diner has branches in the UK. Karen's Diner aims to help customers unwind after months of confinement due to Covid-19.
Cafe CC Ocha
This is a cafe with a maid-style concept, a common sight in Japan. Typically, customers are treated with the same attentive service as a real master. Female staff members wear maid outfits and play with or listen to customers' conversations. However, Cafe CC Ocha offers a unique service: customers can order a kick in the back.
For 1800 yen (approximately 32 million VND), tourists can have a maid change her attitude towards service. This employee will become angry, call you a delinquent, make you kneel, and kick you in the back.
Customers pay to be insulted and humiliated.
Furthermore, the waitresses will not hesitate to verbally abuse and humiliate you in front of other customers in the restaurant. They might even force you to act like a dog and ignore you. Finally, you will receive a souvenir photo of yourself kneeling, along with the time and a cute drawing from the waitress.
However, many customers genuinely enjoy the service and don't mind spending money to be verbally abused by the maid. Cafe CC Ocha first opened in 2014. It is still operating today and is located in Osaka, Japan.
Dick's Last Resort
Dick's Last Resort is a restaurant chain with a deliberately obnoxious staff. On its job posting, Dick's is looking for someone cheerful, able to handle the pressure of constant jokes, and willing to "curse" at customers.
Dick's Last Resort presents guests with a hat bearing a joke specially selected for that guest.
The restaurant intentionally has a somewhat unusual interior design, but still maintains a minimum level of comfort for diners. The restaurant doesn't provide napkins; staff will bring them and throw them directly in your face.
In addition, during your meal, the staff will constantly tease you and place a paper hat on your head, inscribed with the most witty and sarcastic remark chosen for each guest. Currently, Dick's Last Resort has locations in most major US states such as Texas, Florida, Illinois, Las Vegas, etc.

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