14 High Class Restaurant And Hotel Workers Share The Most Stereotypically Rich Person Things They've Seen

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Jan 10, 2019 11:00 AM EST

People can hatch up some crazy ways to spend their boatloads of money, when they get bored enough. These high class hospitality workers have seen it ALL. 

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    Text - alex-manutd S 4d I operated a premium chain restaurant in Canada. One day this Indian gentleman started coming in, at first by himself. On the first day he spent $200 on wine and tipped $1000. The next day he did the same again. When we saw him the third time I had servers fighting over him. Anyway, one evening he got drunk on wine and Brad the busboy made the mistake complementing his watch. Mr. S. takes off his Tag and gives it to Brad. The next morning Mr. S comes back to get his car a
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    Text - Working nights at a hotel many years back - not super high class, but certainly no budget hotel either a lady came in to reception. I say 'lady' because she definitely was - she just reeked of old money. She had a guy in tow, wearing a grey suit - as this was about midnight on a Friday, I immediately clocked him as a chauffeur/aide type deal. No problem, I've seen that before. She asked if we had a room for the night. 'A decent one, please. A suite, ideally.' No problem, we had a suite av
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    Text - Then it came to her chauffeur guy. 'Do you have a servant's quarters for my driver?' 'Um, no, sorry madam. Just the standard rooms. I gave her the price for one of our standard rooms, and she screwed up her face. 'Oh no, that's too much. Don't you have, like, a staff house or something he could stay in? I'd really rather not spend money on an actual hotel room for him.'
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    Text - All this with the guy standing right next to her. I felt really bad for the poor guy and wondered if this was usual for him. After a few more questions and her considering whether to have him sleep in the car (yes, really), we eventually settled on him having a standard room for rock bottom price (I think about £30 or so) - that was as much as she was willing to spend on him, and less than a tenth of what she was paying for her own room. TBH I'd have given him a room for free rather than
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    Text - Auto_Fac. 4d My uncle works at a very upscale restaurant on a very well-to-do and desirable vacation island in the Atlantic Ocean. One of their regular customers is a billionaire oil guy. My uncle has told me: he arrives on a yacht that tows a smaller yacht. The smaller yacht is still big enough to have a helicopter. he demands to have his dogs seated at the table and feeds them foie grass and expensive water. when he takes humans to eat my uncle has never seen him with the same woman twi
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    Text - if he really liked the meal he will go through the restaurant and, in front of everyone, peel off crisp 100s from a giant roll of money in his pocket and tip every service person whether they helped or not. one time the owner got a call from health inspectors saying they received a complaint that dogs were seen eating in the restaurant. All the owner did was speak the billionaires name and the health inspector said, "Oh okay, bye."
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    Text - icycld .4d Worked at a private villa in Bali. One guest stood out. She only drinks and bathes in Evian, so one day I spent almost an hour filling a large tub from tons of Evian bottles. The same young woman complained that the path from her villa gate to her room wasn't well lit. She wore sunglasses at night.
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    Text - illogicalfuturity 4d Bitchy kid that threatened to tell his father about me because I refused to get him alcohol (he was 16) He would show off his hundred dollar bills when he's ordering something but only gives $1 as a tip. Another was a wannabe rapper that was in town for a music video he and his friends were making, their leader being the only guy with money and the rest were just followers. He threw an expensive bottle of wine on the floor and had his friends videotape him making gang
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    Text - diarm S 2.4d I worked for a resort in the Seychelles for 4 years. Thave hundreds of stories which would fit this post but one that stands out was a very wealthy Canadian family who stayed at one of the private residences for a couple of weeks. They brought their own staff including two personal chefs but also asked for a hotel chef to assist their team with prep and local ingredient knowledge. A chef l was friendly with was selected to spend the two weeks with them. One day, another membe
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    Text - arnber420 4d I interviewed at a large hotel attached to a casino and while I was being shown around the front desk, a woman walked up, said nothing, and got room keys after being greeted by the front desk agent. She immediately turned and walked away. Then the manager who was interviewing turned to me and said, "That's Mrs. Richladypants. You never ask her for her name, her ID, or god forbid a credit card. She stays here comped once or twice a week because her husband spends so much in th
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    Text - jesusbrate 4d There's a thing in Stockholm's rich kid district called ,,vaska". Basically, you order an expensive bottle of champagne, pay for it and watch how the waiter wastes all of it by pouring it down the drain (some places let you do it yourself) Sadly, it's an established thing in these kinda circles, like, it's on the menu cards and all that. Honestly the dumbest way of flexing I've ever witnessed.
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    Text - emartinoo 4d I've met two celebrities through my various work experiences. Tim Allen requested that we close the small bakery that I worked at for him while he is as dining there. We did. He didn't leave a tip. Later in my career I met Mario Batali (famous Food Network chef) and he was the most normal person ever. He took a class with us, and then proceeded to pay for everyone else's class that was in his group and bought lunch for the staff as well. I guess both are stereotypical rich pe
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    Text - zhougdog 4d Ordering $150 caviar to-go for their cat.
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    Text - badreg2017 4d I play poker for a living and every now and then some rich guy will sit down and start going all in every hand for $300-500 without looking at his cards. One day I was in a game where a guy was betting $1000-3000 dollars without looking at his cards. It was insane to me but for him l guess it wasn't that much money
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    Text - Techno_Wasp. 4d I've got a pretty good one! I work at a luxury property in California, and we had the co-founder of a large payment processing company stay with us a while back. He only liked to sleep on his own bed, so when he woke up that morning, he paid a team to load his bed into a truck and have it delivered to our property. We then removed the bed in his luxury suite and setup his bed that his team had brought us. He only stayed with us one night and the process was done to send th
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    Text - bluebunny20 4d I am a cocktail server at the huge pool of a 4 star hotel. A woman said in a mono-tone voice and without any eye-contact "I lost my sunscreen. Find it."
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    Text - jkeemi 4d Worked at a grocery store in uppity Gold Coast Chicago when I was a teen. We sold soup for lunch and when bagging them, we put it in a paper bag followed by a plastic bag to make sure it's secure. Lady buys a soup, I proceed to bag the soup and she says no, I'll just put it in my bag. I say, M'aam are you sure? Mind you she has a Louis Vuitton bag that looks brand spanking new. 15 minutes later she comes in raging that she has minestrone all over her Louis Vuitton and demands to
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    Text - legend247369 4d There was this classic trick I used to do when seating people. If, based on the logistics, I needed someone to sit at a table I knew was the least desirable one (close to the toilet, entrance etc) I would always make it look like it's reserved for VIP clients or 'in case the boss decides to come in to eat'. Pretentious rich people want the opportunity to be seated somewhere 'special' so badly that they never ask questions and go for it right away. It made my job a billion
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