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Karen's Diner

  • 08-02-2024 1:17pm
    #1
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,000 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Karen's Diner has opened in Dublin.

    It's basically an Australian-American American Diner where the services is terrible.

    They can throw the menus at you, call you names, swear at you and give general bad service.

    Now, I've only seen this on social media but it's a trend in the past few years.

    Have any of you guys been and how was it?

    For those who haven't what do you think?

    Personaly I couldn't see myself visiting because I rarely eat out and when I do I'd like to have more choice on the menu.



Comments

  • #2
    bobbyD1978
    Registered Users Posts: 165 ✭✭bobbyD1978


    Really dont get the point of deliberately paying to be treated badly. Perhaps the costumers then head home for a bit of whipping and the likes



  • #3
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    sounds a bit like eating in my house when herself is in a mood...


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?

    "You are him…the one they call the "Baba Yaga"…



  • #4
    Allinall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,856 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Much better would be a diner where only Karens get served.

    Keep them all in the one place.



  • #5
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,795 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121738975#Comment_121738975

    It would be mandatory to talk to the manager.



  • #6
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,505 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Been in worse places tbh



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  • #7
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,247 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Didn't this go pear shaped abroad when a waiter made a pedo joke about a father/daughter 😀



  • #8
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,269 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    Don't see the appeal personally but whatever people are into. Its up to them how spend their money.

    I did see an entertaining video with highlights of the service that ended with the customer paying the bill with 1c coins.



  • #9
    TinyMuffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭TinyMuffin


    Still no hooters. It’s a disgrace.



  • #10
    optogirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭optogirl


    oh god my kids are mad to go to this place. I very much do NOT want to pay to be abused by waiting staff



  • #11
    rolling boh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭rolling boh


    Thing the novelty may wear off ,I suppose if the food was any good it would help but I won't be surprised if it dissappears in time .



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  • #12
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    I imagine it'll be like that 90s pub or those places where you smash stuff with hammers, go once, enjoy, never think of it again until someone mentions it, repeat.



  • #13
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,000 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121739345#Comment_121739345

    It's popular for them to bring their older grandparents who've no idea what the place is about and filming their reaction!



  • #14
    Electric Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭Electric Sheep


    Sounds like normal irish service. I presume the servers are tato aggressively ask "Are ya OK".



  • #15
    Quiet Achiever
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 155 ✭✭Quiet Achiever


    Sounds like good craic to me. I want to bring my mother in-law



  • #16
    Northernsoul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Northernsoul


    Saw the place today, on O’Connell Street

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  • #17
    Alayah Drab Sentry
    Posts: 13,688 ✭✭✭✭ Alayah Drab Sentry


    I saw a video of a girl going to one of these places.

    She turned the tables nicely when she paid the bill with pennies.



  • #18
    Rey Whining Pedicure
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ Rey Whining Pedicure


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121742885#Comment_121742885

    Presume it was the UK? They had no obligation to accept more than 20p in 1p coins in a single transaction.

    Wouldn't work here either, max 50 coins per transaction.



  • #19
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,456 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058335237/karens-diner

    It isn't a something new or just a recent trend. Quite a few of similar places in the USA for at least 20 years



  • #20
    JVince
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭JVince


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121742885#Comment_121742885

    and it went viral and thousands of people commented.

    Karen's diner could not have wished for better publicity as it was right up their alley.



  • #21
    Oscar_Madison
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,175 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison


    Unless the food is at to die for levels, I couldn’t see this lasting.

    Im assuming the staff are all just normal restaurant staff? Good luck with that so- and on O’Connell st? Yeah that’s really going to work 😀



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  • #22
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,386 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    It's just a gimmick that would mostly attract people who want to film the staff being rude to them, then put it on instagram/tiktok etc.



  • #23
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    Dont know about the diner but I kind of feel sorry for people actually called Karen - wtf did they do to deserve this?



  • #24
    Tombo2001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭Tombo2001


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121743434#Comment_121743434

    And in Paris for 200 years.....



  • #25
    Rey Whining Pedicure
    Posts: 0 ✭✭ Rey Whining Pedicure


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121743488#Comment_121743488

    Ask for the manager



  • #26
    Ray Palmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,456 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121743490#Comment_121743490

    Not when you speak French. The tourists are often rude without knowing it by simply not greeting the waiters



  • #27
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,114 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121742885#Comment_121742885

    That's not really turning the tables, though, is it? The whole thing is an interactive theatric performance that people willingly partake in. It's not like the diner is going to go "Oh, we better stop being rude because someone paid us in tiny coins! That taught us!", no more than Frankie Boyle would be somehow put in his place for taking the piss out of an audience member if they paid for their ticket in pennies.

    Plus, carrying that amount of copper coins around just to pay your bill would be much more hassle than it's worth.



  • #28
    Gregor Samsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,114 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121743691#Comment_121743691

    Ah no, Paris can be on another level. My wife speaks fluent French and used to live in France in a couple of different places, but not Paris.

    We went over to Paris a few years ago, and at one of the ticket offices of the Eiffel Tower, she queried (in perfect French) something about the charge. The staff member went ballistic, roaring, shouting and gesticulating, then just closed the kiosk shutter, leaving a long line of bewildered tourists standing behind us. We all had to go and join the ends of various other queues while the staff member sulked inside their locked kiosk.



  • #29
    global23214124
    Registered Users Posts: 280 ✭✭global23214124


    I sorted the reviews for the place an Dublin and there are a couple of visitors that weren't expecting that treatment 😀

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  • #30
    Kallie Steep Pail
    Posts: 0 ✭ Kallie Steep Pail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121739375#Comment_121739375

    repeat? so do you go more than once or do you go once twice? what way does this work?



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  • #31
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748062#Comment_121748062

    You go, enjoy it, never think to yourself "I should come back", 6 months later someone books it for a work/birthday party, you think "I enjoyed that, should be fun", so.......


    You go, enjoy it, never think to yourself "I should come back", 6 months later someone books it for a work/birthday party, you think "I enjoyed that, should be fun", so.......


    You go, enjoy it, never think to yourself "I should come back", 6 months later someone books it for a work/birthday party, you think "I enjoyed that, should be fun", so.......



  • #32
    Kallie Steep Pail
    Posts: 0 ✭ Kallie Steep Pail


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748116#Comment_121748116

    ah okay I get you now. The idea is you go once three times.



  • #33
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,733 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121739335#Comment_121739335

    Any Hooters in Ireland would, due to anti discrimination laws, have male waiters in tight clothing as well as female ones, which might make some of the regular customers very confused about what they're meant to be horny about.

    One of the other tit restaurant chains, Tilted Kilt, always has men working behind the bar and could possible just about get away with having only women on the restaurant floor as a result if they opened up here; and apparently they did actually investigate it.

    Don't understand the appeal at all - customers aren't going to score them and I'd very much hope they aren't cracking one off in the jacks. Ditto strip clubs.



  • #34
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748124#Comment_121748124

    No, the idea is YOU go once, then you go because other people have booked it. But your Saturday night routine will never be Karen's, local, home.



  • #35
    hynesie08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,894 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748125#Comment_121748125

    Do strip clubs in Ireland have an even male/female dancer breakdown? Does pantibar and the George have a requisite number of straight females working there?


    Think you're imagining a problem that doesn't exist there.



  • #36
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,733 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748155#Comment_121748155

    Strippers are entertainment roles, they're actors basically. And gay bars very frequently have straight staff - they would have far more LGBT applicants in the first place, though.

    Waiters in a Hooters are not actors, and they'd be torn apart in the WRC by the first guy they refused to hire.

    This is the specific reason there never has been and never will be a Hooters here - they would have to hire male staff or pay out tens of thousands to every single experienced male waiter who wanted a payday.

    Well, that and they flopped in the UK with its weaker legal protections.



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  • #37
    nachouser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭nachouser


    There's a place near me called Game of Throwing, where you pay money to throw axes at stuff. Lots of stupid stuff available if you want to avail of it.

    I'm not sure if there is a Karen to tell you if you are throwing wrong.



  • #38
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69,733 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748187#Comment_121748187

    Axe throwing is fairly big in the US, usually with beer. Nearly entirely work parties going to it. I don't think I'd trust myself doing it sober even.

    How the hell they have insurance here (without booze, but still) I've no idea.



  • #39
    nachouser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭nachouser


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121748208#Comment_121748208

    I'm kinda tempted to pop in tomorrow to find out.



  • #40
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,936 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Sounds like a place for people with too much disposable money and too little sense...

    IIRC there was a boutique in Kensington or somewhere in posh west London in the late 90s where the staff were deliberately cold, rude and snotty to patrons like those store assistants in the film Pretty Woman.

    I believe it only lasted a year or two.

    Post edited by JupiterKid on


  • #41
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,936 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121747746#Comment_121747746

    Parisians are exceptionally rude from my many visits there over the years and I can speak good conversational French.

    The provincial French - much nicer, find Parisians rude as hell too. The denizens of Paris really do live up to their reputation.



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  • #42
    pgj2015
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,498 ✭✭✭pgj2015


    Sounds stupid, why would anyone want to go there?

    whats next? going to places where the staff spit in your food just before you eat it.

    people are so stupid, that cant be good for the staff either, insulting people all day.



  • #43
    Bobson Dugnutt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Bobson Dugnutt


    Are you allowed be rude back? Clicking your fingers at the waiter and calling him a rusty cúnthole etc.

    Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes - Greta Thunburg



  • #44
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,000 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121749191#Comment_121749191

    Sort of, however the C word is not allowed.



  • #45
    Kallie Steep Pail
    Posts: 0 ✭ Kallie Steep Pail


    I don’t possess either the patience or sense of humour to enjoy dining here to be honest.



  • #46
    blade1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,505 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Do bad reviews make it better or worse?



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