A restaurant chain where customers eat burgers and enjoy being abused by staff is coming to Wales for the first time. Karen’s Diner has chosen Newport for its first ever Welsh site.
The diner, which hit the headlines via TikTok last year, has boomed in popularity since it opened its first restaurant in Sydney, Australia in 2021. After expanding across Australia the chain, which has the motto “great burgers and very rude service”, opened earlier this year in Birmingham, Sheffield, and Manchester.
Job adverts have been posted online for a head chef, chef, host, server, and assistant restaurant manager ready for the restaurant to open at Friars Walk in February.
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At Karen’s Diner customers can eat burgers to their heart’s content while being waited on by the rude staff who chuck the menus at diners’ feet, force customers to play a variety of games, and if your name is actually Karen you get a free drink. Due to the language sometimes used children must be accompanied by an adult. The restaurant’s name is very deliberate - with the reference to Karen now a well-known slang term meaning an entitled or demanding woman.
While the name of the game is to be almost as rude as you like while dining, there are some house rules which the restaurant says it takes very seriously. The rules are; no racist, sexist, homophobic or ableist comments, no body shaming, no sexual harrassment, no vandalism, and no throwing food.
For £12 you can get the Basic Karen, which includes a Wagyu beef patty with American cheese, tomato, oak lettuce, beetroot and garlic mayo.
The 'I Want To See The Manager' Karen includes two Wagyu beef patties, two slices of manager cheese, bacon, lettuce, pickles, and manager BBQ mustard sauce - costing £15. If you don’t want a burger you can also get a hot dog and loaded fries, and there are alcoholic cocktails available too.
The Newport branch will be opening on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4pm until 9.30pm, and from Fridays to Sundays from 12pm to 10pm.
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