Inside the Secret Lives of the Ultra-Rich: Shocking Tales from Luxury Hotels and Restaurants Revealed
might’ve been unintentional, but college students aren’t really the people who can afford to travel on the other side of globe, and tipping them an equivalent of a chocolate bar doesn’t help.
I worked as a busboy at a restaurant that was part of a hotel that was at the end of its life. The owner, a reputed mob boss, and his eccentric wife, lived in a top floor suite that was two stories tall and lined with white marble, Italian statues, red carpet, etc. The wife would do her grocery shopping from the restaurant’s kitchen, and it would be us busboys who took it up. However, she made very specific demands on how the food should be prepared. Once, she asked for 7 pieces of American cheese, and it needed to be on a plate in a star pattern. Another time, she wanted 5 raw eggs, each wrapped in a napkin and then wrapped in plastic, placed inside a large styrofoam cup. Failure to prepare the food to her exact specifications meant being fired. On top of all that, she never once met us when we brought the food- she would buzz us in and instruct us to put the tray in their private elevator, and send it up to her. I was once berated because I put a plate of bread on the left wide of a tray instead of the right.
After the husband died, they closed the hotel. For a couple years after, she lived in that penthouse alone, and it was creepy to drive past at nights and see this 14 story hotel completely dark except for her couple lights on the top floor.
Long ago while working at Domino’s Pizza we’d deliver anywhere in our small town…..except one hotel. The Coeur d’Alene Resort didn’t want our low brow people stinking up their hotel. When guests of the resort would call us we had to tell them the resort only allowed us to meet them at the service entrance. This wasn’t our rule but rather what we had to do in order to be allowed on their property.
Large scale conventions were pretty common at this resort. Some bigwigs at these companies tried to convince us to break the resort rules *just for them*. However the resort owner also owned half the town….p**s him off and kiss your business goodbye.
So one day we got a phone call from some guy. He ordered ten pizza’s, no big deal as we get large orders from there now and then. We were told to deliver it to the top floor suite. Of course we had to tell them we’re not allowed to and can they meet us at the service entrance. Yea, he grumbled and huffed.
A few minutes later we got a call back from Jerry Jaeger (the president of the Hagadon Hospitality division and manager of the resort). He told my boss to please park at the service entrance and wait for a security guard to escort us up to the penthouse.
That’s when I met a gruff but really awesome guy that insisted on being called Auggie…..August Busch III, CEO of Anheuser Busch.
Nobody dared to cross Hagadon or Jerry before then or since. Leave it to a college dropout turned CEO or one of the largest beer companies to set them straight.
Well not a restaurant but I work in an Olive Oil store so not necessarily rich customers but at least upper middle class.
In the store, we have this chocolate balsamic vinegar and being in a suburban white town I usually get a lot of sexual comments I remember once this lady came in and was making some comments and it turned out she was the Mom of someone I went to school with.
However, sometime before Christmas this lady came in and spent a really long time. She was talking to me for a while how she left from NYC to come to this store. She has an apartment overlooking Central Park and she has another house in California. She wasn’t necessarily bragging but she was telling me her life story haha. From this I figured she must be rich. However when all the other customers left it was just us and she started making some sexual comments concerning the chocolate balsamics but they were all subliminal. I just kinda laughed even though I felt really awkward, I’m 19 and she’s older than my grandma. Eventually she just blurred out “how much for me to take you back to the city with me for a couple days”. Then before I got the chance to respond a customer walked in and she just left. I told my coworkers and she has come back twice when I’m not working asking if was working and when is the next time I’ll be working. Honestly tho if she was willing to give big money I might do what I gotta do.
This lady ordered the “Ike and Tina Tuna”
I politely asked her if she wanted the plate, or platter.
Aghast she replied, “I *don’t* understand the question, and I *won’t* respond to it.”.
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 times easier back then.
So, not a restaurant or a hotel, but a travel agent. Client is a d**k. Client can’t drive and crashes car. Client walks out of police station after filling out all paperwork following the crash and decides to.. commandeer the first helicopter he sees to get him where he wants to go. Because rich people logic.
Footnote: there was a pilot to go with the helicopter, to eliminate any confusion on that count. Client definitely would not be able to manage a helicopter on his own. Hell, he couldn’t even manage his own travel plans.
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