Jamie Lee Curtis has said that, in making reservations in the UK, she always uses her husband’s British lordly title (actor Christopher Guest is also Baron Haden-Guest) rather than her movie-actress name, and gets better results.
I remember that! Looks like the writer might’ve embroidered some of the call transcripts a bit, though.
Interesting. Did they double back through the kitchen? Seemed like a longer route through there than it needed to be.