Restaurants hide ugly diners up the back
RESTAURANTS deliberately allocate their best tables to their most attractive diners, an investigation has found.
Models posing as customers for a TV documentary were given “golden tables” in three top restaurants.
But those considered less attractive were seated at the back near kitchens or toilets.
And two restaurateurs admitted it was common practice. TV chef Simon Rimmer owns Greens in Manchester and Earle in Cheshire (both in the UK).
He said: “Every restaurant has a golden table where they sit the best looking customers. A restaurant’s clientele give off a certain message about the place.
“Good looking customers attract more people and make you more cash so you sit them where they can be seen.”
And Neil Gill, who owns London’s Season Kitchen, said: “Everybody likes to associate themselves with cool people and good looking people.
“You want to feel like you are eating in a restaurant where there are other cool people.”
They were speaking to Channel 4’s ‘Tricks of the Restaurant Trade’, on at 8pm on Tuesday.
It follows actor Adam Pearson, whose neurofibromatosis has left his face covered in tumours.
He hired two models to go into three swanky London venues followed by himself and a pal.
The girls were given prominent seats but Adam and his pal were hidden away or told there were no tables available.
He called it “disappointing” and said: “Next time you get sat at the back of the restaurant, now you know why.”
Source: The Sun, Laura Armstrong, 4th January 2016
