# Are Restaurants Where The Staff Is Deliberately Rude To You, But In A "Fun" Way, A Thing Outside US?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 20, 2018, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-restaurants-where-the-staff-is-deliberately-rude-to-you-but-in-a-fun-way-a-thing-outside-us/824856 "2018-11-20T17:21:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-restaurants-where-the-staff-is-deliberately-rude-to-you-but-in-a-fun-way-a-thing-outside-us/824856/41 "2018-11-23T05:14:29Z")

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> [@Treppenwitz](#):
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> Do you know it from QI?
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> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9PSg0sQyfs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9PSg0sQyfs) @ 1.10
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No, I think it was from a BBC web site article, which mentions a few other British restaurants with a reputation of rude service (e.g. the Coach and Horses pub).

> **[The restaurants that thrive on insulting their diners](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26468295)**
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> A Chinese eatery dubbed "London's rudest" has promised better service. Is insulting your customers ever a good idea?

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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-restaurants-where-the-staff-is-deliberately-rude-to-you-but-in-a-fun-way-a-thing-outside-us/824856/42 "2018-11-23T06:07:12Z")

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I’ve never been to a place where it is a general theme. I’ve certainly had waitstaff that could pull off the rudeness shtick well, and earn even bigger tips because of it.

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**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-restaurants-where-the-staff-is-deliberately-rude-to-you-but-in-a-fun-way-a-thing-outside-us/824856/43 "2018-11-23T06:23:26Z")

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> [@Leaffan](#):
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> I don’t think it would work in Canada.

In Sudbury there was a waitress in a diner in Copper Cliff who was down right abusive, but most workdays, my father and several of his co-workers would chow down at that diner, with insults raining down on them. It wasn’t an act. It was the way she communicated.

The year my dad retired from INCO and no longer ate lunch at the diner, she and one of her co-workers turned up at our door at Christmas with a delicious turkey.

He died that spring, and she and the other waitress attended his memorial service.

Sometimes abuse is quite the opposite.

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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-restaurants-where-the-staff-is-deliberately-rude-to-you-but-in-a-fun-way-a-thing-outside-us/824856/44 "2018-11-24T15:25:56Z")

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I hope not.

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