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.
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