The restaurant where waiting staff are purposely rude to customers is on a recruitment drive for new front-of-house staff. Karen's Diner, an Australian dining concept that prides itself on rude staff and terrible service, opened its doors in Manchester last week, and had already seen a huge demand for tables.
The interactive dining experience, which also encourages customers to ‘complain until the cows come home because we literally don’t care’, has had a surge in bookings since it opened, and to accommodate the demand has put a call out on its social media channels for more 'Karen’s'.
Taking to Facebook, Karen’s Diner said: “more opening hours, means smiling customers, smiling customers need sh*t service from new Karens. To do this, we need more front of house Karens NOW.”
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A great restaurant experience always starts with a warm welcome, though in the case of Karen’s Diner, it may not be the welcome you expect. And if you’re thinking of applying, bearing in mind a few tips also shared on the restaurant’s Facebook post might just get you an interview.
While they’re encouraging people to email their CVs, they warn following up on applications will “p**s off” the HR director. They also don’t care about if you send a cover letter, and most importantly, “Do Not tell the HR Director what a b**ch you are, it’s old and boring, think creative not cringey".
The post also encourages applicants to be ”feisty, strong and sassy”, and if you get an interview research the restaurant through its social media channels, “or don’t it affects your life not mine”.
Many people already seem keen to join the front-of-house team, with one person in the Facebook comments writing: “We could tell customers what we think of them til our hearts are content.”
Though another complained: “I sent my CV weeks ago and no one bothered replying”, which is either really ironic or totally on brand.
Manchester Evening News reporter Ben Arnold, has already tried out the surreal dining concept, and said the experience was “a lot, perhaps too much. But from dreading going to leaving wanting to tell everyone about it, that’s a pretty wild success”.
Highlights of his Karen’s experience included being scolded for forgetting where he lives, staff heckling his friend for being vegetarian - “everyone we have a vegetarian in the restaurant, after three I want everyone to shout ‘f**k off veggie’” - to the genuinely shocking moment when a waitress took her parting shot, telling a family “SANTA’S NOT REAL”.
If you still think you’ve got what it takes to be a Karen at the Manchester branch email your CV to events@hiddenexclsuive.co.uk, but whatever you do don’t follow up because as they say, it’ll only p**s off HR. You’ve been warned.
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