Which celebrities are a restaurant’s worst nightmare? ‘They think they own the world’ - New York Post

Waiting connected Meghan Markle and her handler turned retired to beryllium a royal symptom for Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, maitre d’ astatine NYC’s Michelin-starred edifice Le Coucou successful 2017. His caput reservationist passed him a enactment astir an “irate” pistillate who had dropped the “I’m bringing successful royalty” paper and demanded a backstage table, thing the edifice could not accommodate. 

“She said, ‘It’s for idiosyncratic who is dating a prince,’ ” Cecchi-Azzolina recalled, telling The Post that the handler copped an cognition erstwhile told the edifice could not support adjacent tables open. “I said, ‘I inactive don’t person a backstage array for you.’ ” He suggested a country array alternatively and the pistillate yet acquiesced. 

“They came successful with an attitude,” Cecchi-Azzolina said, of the duo showing up 20 minutes before their reservation. After welcoming them to person a portion with the commoners astatine the bar, the escort allegedly became enraged.

Cecchi-Azzolina recalls getting inundated by a handler for Meghan Markle successful 2017 and different instances similar getting heckled by manner influencers demanding a array portion helium was maître d’ astatine Le Coucou. Tamara Beckwith/NY Post

A handler for Meghan Markle successful 2017 reportedly demanded a backstage array astatine Le Coucou. GC/Getty Images

“Are you alert my impermanent is dating Prince Harry and astir to beryllium a duchess?” Cecchi-Azzolina writes successful his forthcoming book, “Your Table Is Ready,” retired December 6. “ ‘Don’t you person a backstage country for america to wait?’ My archetypal impulse was to laugh. I could springiness 2 s–ts astir Prince Harry’s date, and by the attraction the escort was drafting from the assemblage astatine the bar, nor did anyone else.” 

Cecchi-Azzolina recalled that Markle, meanwhile, “didn’t accidental a word,” portion her handler threw a acceptable that the array wasn’t acceptable earlier their preservation time, describing the actress-turned-royal arsenic “aloof.” A rep for Markle did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

“We get the astir almighty radical successful the satellite that travel present — nary 1 truly cares astir you,” Cecchi-Azzolina said, adding that the escort sat down successful a huff. 

James Corden responded to the backlash of being “canceled” and aboriginal forgiven by restauranteur Keith McNally connected Friday successful an interrogation with The New York Times noting the play was “beneath” him and “so silly.”Getty Images

After skewering James Corden for being “abusive” toward his edifice staff, Balthazar proprietor Keith McNally accepted Corden’s apology. Some manufacture insiders deliberation helium fto him disconnected easy.Keith McNally / Instagram

Restaurant manufacture insiders are serving up tales of entitlement, expletive-spewed rants, dine-and-dashers and serial complainers connected the heels of restaurateur Keith McNally skewering British comedian James Corden arsenic the “most abusive customer” his edifice unit astatine Balthazar person ever seen successful the Soho restaurant’s 25 years.

On Monday, McNally publically announced connected Instagram that he’d 86’d Corden (restaurant talk for canceled) for mistreating employees and demanding a circular of drinks “this second” aft Corden spotted a portion of hairsbreadth successful his main course. According to McNally, Corden past insisted the edifice instrumentality attraction of the drinks tab, threatening to constitute a atrocious Yelp review. 

In a abstracted instance, McNally said, Corden allegedly shouted astatine a staffer, saying, “You can’t bash your job! Maybe I should spell into the room and navigator the omelette myself” aft his woman complained ovum achromatic had made its mode into her yolk-only omelette. McNally aboriginal said Corden had called him to apologize, and helium accepted, saying Corden was invited backmost to his edifice and that “All is forgiven.” In an interrogation with the New York Times connected Friday, Corden noted the play was “beneath” him and “so silly.”

Some seasoned edifice satellite vets accidental McNally fto Corden disconnected excessively easily, and that much celebrities should beryllium named and shamed for their often atrocious behavior. 

“You either get the celebrities that are precise approachable and relaxed oregon immoderate radical who are conscionable lunatics. You person radical who are miserable successful their ain lives and they take to instrumentality it retired connected work people,” Jason Kaplan, a New York City-based edifice advisor astatine JK Consulting, told The Post.

“What I find benignant of ridiculous is the information that due to the fact that helium apologized, present you fto him backmost into your restaurant? How does that excuse atrocious behavior?” Kaplan said of McNally.

And immoderate celebrities are proving they person zero tolerance for disrespecting edifice workers. Conan O’Brien reportedly fired a erstwhile unit subordinate for being impatient and rude to a edifice server, a erstwhile O’Brien staffer wrote connected Twitter Tuesday.

Corden allegedly shouted astatine a Balthazar staffer, saying, “You can’t bash your job! Maybe I should spell into the room and navigator the omelet myself” aft his woman complained ovum achromatic had made its mode into her yolk-only omelet. William Farrington for NY Post

At CONAN determination was a unit subordinate who was fired due to the fact that Conan witnessed him being impatient and rude to a server astatine a restaurant. Just remembering that now, for nary peculiar reason.

— todd levin (@toddlevin) October 18, 2022

Corden is hardly the lone offender leaving edifice owners with a atrocious sensation successful their mouths. A root adjacent to 1 Hamptons blistery spot recalled an inflammatory incidental 2 summers agone erstwhile the co-owner of a nonrecreational sports squad allegedly called a hostess a “hooker” and a “bitch” erstwhile helium couldn’t get a array retired beforehand oregon successful the outdoor area, leaving the staffer “crying,” the root said. Management had to measurement successful and chide them for utilizing the foul language. 

“Some of them deliberation they ain the satellite and they get truly nasty,” the root said. 

Influencers are different unlikable crowd. In his book, Cecchi-Azzolina recalls being told, “Do you cognize however galore Instagram followers she has?” astatine Le Coucou erstwhile a manner influencer and her unit called the edifice 10 times successful a week to get a table. They arrived astatine 7:30 p.m., an hr earlier their preservation and continued to usage their societal media pursuing arsenic currency.

Michael Cecchi Azzolina recalls the biggest personage edifice nightmares successful his forthcoming book, “Your Table Is Ready.”Phillip Romano

Showing up unannounced, demanding a array and past sending backmost nutrient is different infamous move. Cecchi-Azzolina claims supermodel Naomi Campbell and high-powered exertion Anna Wintour did conscionable that portion helium was moving the country astatine Raoul’s successful Soho. Zandy Mangold for NY Post

“Do you cognize who this is! She has hundreds of thousands of followers. If you don’t spot the six of america now, she volition adjacent this edifice down. No 1 volition come,” 1 of the influencer’s minions said, according to the book.

Sometimes, bold-facers are truthful arrogant they locomotion retired connected the check. A root adjacent to the now-closed edifice Philippe Chow successful Miami recalled a clip astir 2009 erstwhile Dennis Rodman allegedly came successful with a fleet of 15 radical and stiffed staffers connected the $3,000 measure aft racking up the tab with costly bottles of Champagne. 

“One by 1 they each started walking out. He was similar f–k it. I’m not getting stuck with this bill. They each snuck out,” the root alleged. A rep for Rodman did not instrumentality The Post’s petition for comment.

“He was flying connected a backstage pitchy the adjacent day. I [thought], of people you alert connected a backstage pitchy due to the fact that you don’t wage for things. You conscionable spell to places and don’t wage your bill. Shame connected you,” the root said.

Around the aforesaid time, the root claimed, self-help guru Tony Robbins sat down to meal with a unit of 10 to 15 radical and allegedly near the staffers empty-handed erstwhile the measure of astir $2,000 came. 

“The preservation was nether Tony Robbins and they each walked retired connected the bill. When we got successful interaction with Tony Robbins’ bureau helium was like, ‘I was a impermanent there.’ He said, ‘I’m not paying the bill.’ I said, ‘You were sitting astatine the caput of the array making speeches and wishing everyone well. You guys aren’t going to wage the measure oregon the staff?’ He was like, ‘I was there, but it’s not my preservation and I’m not going to pay.’ Two 1000 dollars is not going to enactment you retired of business, it’s what you complaint for 1 seminar. He ne'er paid us,” the root claimed. A rep for Robbins did not instrumentality a petition for comment.  

Showing up unannounced, demanding a array and past sending backmost nutrient is different infamous move. Cecchi-Azzolina claims supermodel Naomi Campbell and high-powered exertion Anna Wintour did conscionable that portion helium was moving the country astatine Raoul’s successful Soho. 

“Naomi Campbell would come, beryllium rude, and kick astir her nutrient astir each time,” Cecchi-Azzolina writes successful his publication of Campbell, who would predominant the edifice Raoul’s successful the aboriginal 2000s.Getty Images

Anna Wintour would “march successful with nary preservation and request a table,” astatine Raoul’s portion Checchi-Azzolina worked beforehand of location there, helium said.Getty Images

“Naomi Campbell would come, beryllium rude and kick astir her nutrient astir each time,” Cecchi-Azzolina writes successful his publication of Campbell, who would predominant the edifice successful the aboriginal 2000s erstwhile she was dating U2 guitarist the Edge. A rep for Campbell did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

“She was idiosyncratic we dreaded coming in,” Cecchi-Azzolina told The Post. “She needed a batch of attention. She sent backmost her nutrient rather a fewer times. I privation to accidental it was the rack of lamb,” helium said.

Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, meanwhile, was “absolutely horrid,” and would “march successful with nary preservation and request a table,” Cecchi-Azzolina writes successful his book, noting that Wintour ever ordered a steak “very rare” and requested it beryllium served “immediately.”

“God forbid it was the slightest spot overcooked. She’d look astatine the server arsenic though he’d conscionable served her rat and person it sent backmost and redone. You’d deliberation the earthy nutrient would marque her little sanguine,” helium writes. A rep for Wintour did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

“She’d conscionable locomotion successful oregon telephone and say, ‘I’m coming.’ One clip she came successful and we were closing the backmost country and she insisted connected sitting successful the backmost country and we had to support a waiter determination and springiness her her ain waiter. Boy, was that waitress pissed,” Cecchi-Azzolina told The Post, describing Wintour’s demeanor arsenic curt.

“She doesn’t truly speech to the staff. She’s similar I’m having this and that’s it.”