To not get the Karen’s Diner concept?

[WingsgivenbyRedBull]

So I get that the staff are suppose to be rude and tell you to fuck off to then make you a “Karen”.

But I don’t get why you’d want to be verbally abused and apparently the food isn’t great either - this apparently means I have no sense of humour.

I've been. It's utterly pathetic. Excrutiatingly unfunny and load of pointless swearing during the pre watershed sitting.

What games do they play?

Sounds like the satire of postwar society in the Tin Drum. Grass describes a restaurant called the Onion Cellar whose patrons pay huge amounts of money to be sat in a dark room with a cutting board, knife and raw onions - so they can cry, geddid?

pipe down dummy.

You’re clearly quite dumb

Wow, OP. You should apply, you’d be right at home there.

The only things I have seen about this is when people take their unsuspecting usually older relative and it’s a “shock” to them seen a few funny tik toys I would take me mil but she would just tell them to F off back lol

In theory I like the idea of rude dining but I watched a clip on YouTube and I found it quite creepy to be honest. The waitress who threw the menus on the floor and then the other waitress who verbally abused the influencer until he picked them up, they were also late for their reservation so punished by standing against a wall. It seemed a bit fetishy

Sounds awful, and the whole “Karen” thing is misogynistic anyway.

YANBU

But it’s the latest fad that looks funny on social media so everyone has to jump on the same bandwagon and join in.

I saw one the other day where you pay for a shot and a slap.
So you give them your money, drink your shot and then they slap you really hard across your face - why anyone would pay for that I have no idea!

Looks shit. As a pop-up, novel, occasional & perhaps charitable event I could perhaps understand it. But it having enough long term traction to warrant a chain of restaurants? I’m sceptical.

Indeed it has 😁

We went to an event like this.
Nobody warned us and one of the “ waiters” was awful to a close friend of mine who had been badly injured in a car accident a couple of years previously and had scars and also some impairment. Luckily for him DH managed to grab me before I walloped him
The whole concept is horrible but I suppose as long as you know what to expect it’s ok. There was a lady who’s H had booked one of these places for her Birthday and she didn’t want to go, which according to him meant she had no sense of humour

Sounds like mine and DH's idea of hell! I'm sure other people enjoy it - but that sort of thing just makes me uncomfortable.

Not only we wished, but watching some videos, this is exactly how many customers treat the staff!

How the turntables!

I watched a couple of videos it seems harmless enough in the scheme of things an immersive experience and obviously not for the faint-hearted.

I can’t stand this sort of stuff. It’s basically making bullying funny, I don’t think it’s ever okay to laugh “at” someone. Dh disagrees and is desperate to go but I’ve said he’ll have to take someone else. I wouldn’t step foot in there.

They got people out to spin a wheel and it stopped on things like ‘do a catwalk’, ‘sing karaoke’ etc. Ours stopped on ‘free shots ‘ !

That's true of many businesses though but it's making money just now so good for them.

Any business that makes money out of people's stupidity will alway succeed. If you set up a business cutting people's fingers off, if you can get enough "celebrities" (the less well-known, the better: they just have to identify as celebrities) and "influencers" (ditto) to post about it on social media, people will queue up to be mutilated.

There was a lady who’s H had booked one of these places for her Birthday and she didn’t want to go, which according to him meant she had no sense of humour

I remember that thread @Hoppinggreen there were a fair few on that thread telling the OP to go because of course we should all go and do something on our birthdays that we know we will hate because someone else wants to, it's their type of thing and they will enjoy it, after all women's birthdays are all about pleasing other people not themselves. There were also the usual comments telling OP she lacked a sense of humour, was uncool and just didn't understand the concept.

Paying for misogyny? How fun.

There was one a while ago, I saw on here, about people who were lining up to have their picture taken outside a chippy. Just like a normal, boring looking chippy.

My idea of hell.

Someone went to the press about their experience there, a dad was asked in front of his teenage daughter whether he subscribed to her (his daughters) only fans and calling him a paedo.

Lighthearted though yeah?

It probably should only be 18+ but that would probably screw the business model.

We are going to Vegas in January for DH's 50th and there is place there called The Heart Attack Grill.

If you weigh in over a certain weight you eat free, you have to wear hospital gowns, the waitresses are dressed as Nurses and if you don't eat all your meal you get physically whacked with a wooden paddle.

It's, very, very popular. Needless to say we won't be going.

Sounds like a dystopian misogynistic hell - yes I have no sense of humour.