There’s a whole category of restaurants with service so bad — knowingly so bad — the hope is it will have customers, typically out-of-towners, doubled over in stitches, slapping knees, spitting out water, that kind of thing. Places like Chicago tourist trap Wiener’s Circle or Dick’s Last Resort specifically attract visitors for their appallingly bad service. Now, Australia-based traveling pop-up Karen’s Diner is taking things to a level nobody asked for, as the terrible service gag meets the very real meme of the entitled, usually affluent, and always wanting to speak to the manager Karen. The whole thing ranges from bizarre to (somewhat knowingly?) problematic.
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