Cultures

How it really works: restaurant hosts

Every so often we get a glimpse of how things really work, without the cautionary impulse and spinning that takes over when people are talking to the media. Eater LA picks up the instructions — including how to treat "Mexican people" and VIPs differently — given to the front of the house staff at an unnamed Mexican restaurant in Orange County. Sample:

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Whole thing at Eater LA.


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