Restaurants normally pride themselves on offering the best service they can and showing impeccable politeness to diners. But a chain of eateries has now arrived in the UK that aims to provide entirely the opposite - where vegan customers can expect to be booed and patrons wearing glasses should be prepared for insults.
Karen's Diner is named after the slang term referring to a particular type of woman perceived as being excessively demanding with an inflated sense of entitlement. It is an Australian phenomenon comprising novelty restaurants where the waiters and waitresses, effectively actors, try to be as rude and obnoxious as possible to guests.
Alongside this conceit, real food is served - and the first UK Karen's has opened in Sheffield, with another quickly following near Manchester. Alex Grove, content editor with Yorkshire Live, went to see what Britain can expect - and it seems the place is just as abrasive as advertised.
