Drunkenness, rudeness, harassment... Melissa Sigodo has seen it all during her five year restaurant career
Like many cash-strapped twentysomethings, I need to earn a living, so I work in a restaurant. I have waitressed in various places all over London, from a painfully quiet restaurant in leafy South Kensington to an eatery bustling with thrusting capitalists in Mayfair, and have seen the crème de la crème of difficult customers. My conclusion? Horrible diners fall victim to an illusion of superiority that comes from mistaking their comfortable chair for a throne.
The downside of working in hospitality is that, unlike any other industry, strangers enter your workplace and treat you however they please. You have to endure this until the diner decides to leave and the problem is that certain guests don’t want to.
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