Is this Australia's 'rudest' restaurant? - BBC News 

it's more difficult to act precisely rude than just being polite. there's no regulations for rudeness. they're so professional.

My concern is what if someone enters without being aware of the nature of this venue?

Honestly I would just be rude back.

I can't imgaine why anyone would want to experience this. The world is full of Karen's and it would be nice if there were less of them, not more,.

AUSTRALIA will forever remain the land of Australian aboriginals

I don’t understand deliberately seeking out harassment and being humiliated on purpose. Negativity? I don’t get it.

In Hong Kong you can get this kind of service quite easily in cheap local restaurants, no acting~ all real~

I don't think those workers are acting 🤣

The “concept” the way it is now, is a hard no from me. I worked in retail for over two decades, I don’t think I’ll ever recover. I think this would be a good thing if the point of it was to highlight the importance of politeness / mutual respect between customers and staff at all times.

We had something like this in Phoenix called Ed Debevics about 20yrs ago. It was styled as an American 50's diner and the servers were rude on purpose. It was fun.

Why would anyone choose to go to these restaurants

Ok. More room in polite restaurants for people like me then. ...... Say "you're welcome"! 😬

What a load of BS!

Karen's Diner clips have been showing up on my YT shorts. as 'fun' as this place is, i wouldn't be a customer there. when i eat at restaurants or diners, i want to enjoy my meal with *pleasant* surroundings, not pay the waiters to give me insults or attitude.

This is offensive to women called Karen.

I dont see humor but I see there's whole lot of potential to abuse & serve bad food for full price & get away with it every time

I love that it’s just a bunch of gay people being mean, I feel seen

Na not for me, rudeness isn't funny. I'm stressed at what society has become where mutation, only fans and rudeness are celebrated! I often wondered how a successful society like Rome could fall.....now I'm living it, society is definitely devolving.

In Italy We had this idea 30 or more years ago. La parolaccia restaurant in Rome is an institution.

Well, it’s just me. I don’t like it al all. Get enough of rudeness all over the place on earth today. 😖

in Japan, the polite reception sounds fake too

I wish there was restaurant like this in my city! Nice acting, so real and great fun, nice to know things are opening up ... keep up the good act! Comment from Athens, Greece!

- So are you currently acting or resting? - Er, both.

Oh. This is in common service in Hong Kong!

i wonder where they draw the line tho...lol

In the U.S. we have Dick's last resort, a small resteraunt chain similar to this.

Doesn't it get old after a while? If you know that they're acting, what's the point?

Why should BBC cover this?

The staff are actors? Totally unrealistic. Anyway, to me at least this looks very very unappealing. The food looks good though.

This is revolutionary.It’s transgressing stereotypical “smiling mask syndrome” customer service culture

Insulting to people actually called 'Karen', & UK's going 'American' enough as it is!🙄

The BBC don’t broadcast British news anymore!

Its funny the psychology of Rudeness. Rudeness only hurts when you believe or assume or think the other person insulting you is truly racist or truly hateful or truly mean. An emotionally intelligent person will quickly dismiss comments by people like that because you should never automatically assume you know who someone is. Do you know for certain they are out to get you and are racist mean or hateful? Our brains have to quickly decide if this is a person we should fear and run from or embrace and love which is not possible to do with a person you’ve just met or dont know well. So it comes down to trust. The benefit of the doubt comes in, giving them the benefits of your doubt, being you wont go off on them and assume they hate you or intended to hurt you.Its one of the reasons why a woman may stay with a man that physically abuses her for years, because in her head he loves her and she trusts him just enough. Soin her head the abuse is okay. Its also the reason why if your best friend calls you an idiot you laugh and it somehow brings you closer but if a stranger in the street or a restaurant calls you an idiot you may get angry or offended. You trust and love your best friend but you don't trust or love the stranger. In a restaurant like this your brain trusts these people because they’re upfront and have told you its all a joke. You know that. You’re not left wondering about intent. Whatever they say is ultimately a lie & its novel and you can dismiss them and even laugh about it. It begs us to ask How great would it be if we could first love ourselves enough to immediately reject any comment towards us to the contrary and shrug off comments with unknown intent. Pick your battles, wisely not everyone is as threatening as they may seem.

In France (& half Hong Kong) most tourist restaurants, clubs & stalls everywhere there's full of these like front liners are the daily norm, I read about it but experienced it thrice in Fr & twice in HK

Guess customers too will be as much as rude by smashing money in their face

There's one of these in Manchester and the BBC wasted money to go film in Australia!

Whattttttttttttt loooooooool you gotta be kidding guys Is the restaurant really exists in australia i feel like they re not servicing the people for the food they just wanna a fight with others Looooool I Laughed about the way how the waiters they give the food to them ( What The Hell Bro )

Karents restaurant is also famous in Indonesia, but in our country most of the people are very contradictory with their methods

Free Julian Assange

That is disrespecting!

And at the end of every meal, you get the bill and right at the bottom of it it says "Fuck you for coming".

Is this what your spunking license fees on reporting?

Why would anyone pay to go to a food venue and be spoken to or treated like that even if its all for fun apparently. I know i would lose my patience very fast.

Crazy Australians!

Yeah that's one place I know I would not go

I used to work there but I got fired for being too polite to customers! 😂

If it were possible I would rather dine in the patriotic town of Chillingbourne.

Can somebody explain to me what it means "B1" (1:58 - he says the waitress called him B1)

And the “service” is included or it is it customers prerogative?

This is how low humanity has got..particularly in the West. What starts off as a joke will eventually be what this and next generation become

Restaurant should be restaurant. Focus on the food and services.

I took my elderly mother and my two daughters aged 11 and 5 to Karen’s diner in Brisbane. The food was disgusting and there was nothing clever and funny about the rudeness, rather the staff used foul language and insults and my 5 yo didn’t know how to take it. She felt very uncomfortable and wanted to leave. I will never expose myself and my family to such crassness ever again. I can’t believe the money I paid. I don’t allow my children to watch shows or see movies with that level of filth, why would I allow them to be exposed to that in a restaurant?! They need to be more clear about what diners are to expect in order to make better judgements, especially where children are concerned. Thankfully my mothers poor hearing protected her from the degenerates

Oh yeah I really need burgers & fries in a red plastic basket.

Suitable restaurants for a bunch of Convicts

gets old very quickly

Successful people don't become that way overnight. what most people see at a glace- wealth.a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time.I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life.

Revolting. Proof transportation was all worth it

african proverb, "If elephants fight It is the grass that suffers." and "Even the Niger River It flows around the island."

日本人にはこれを受け入れる余裕がないかな

It’s fun because it’s different from what we’re used to.

The Australian version of Amy's Baking Company.

What is new about this? There’s one in Las Vegas(USA) and I’ve been there and I hated it. I will never go back there again.

Lol imagine a Karen going to this restaurant 🤣 can I speak to ur manager please?

These are already in the UK! How is this news?

There was a swanky restaurant in Chicago - I don’t know if it’s still around - that was famous for its rudeness. Gotta say, Karen’s Diner is appropriately named!! 😂🤣

Too much of humanity for me thank you

Australians “borrow” so much from the American culture

Wonder what happens if someone cries? Also, what's the food like?

Karen's get too much air time as it is.

Not despite but because of the worst service.. you don't get it!

This is just the way our governments act

we can have enough rudness en real life. Unfortunately .No need to look for any special place like this.

This is noting new. We have had this for years in London's Chinatown.

Might as well put the costumers in dog collars so they can't run out the door. Untill they lie there ass off about the service and leave a big tip to a bunch of crunchy lazy dirty employees.😂🙉 You all been dreaming of this day.

If am hungry, no thanks. I might go ballistic and periferic like a nuclear bomb❤

..GLOBAL INVITATION: come to Quebec! ..this is how we roll RE: customer service ..so, sorry to say won't be popping by Karen's Diner Down Under anytime soon, when I can trot half a block & get it in French ..why bother, right? If you enjoy being ignored, spoken to rudely ..in another language (namely French) & told not to speak English, then the world's your oyster chez nous! ..❤🙏🏽 🇨🇦

It's a memorable experience for the customer.

In lahore mm alam Road gunsmoke was the restaurant having same rudeness as this one. They were like texas 18th century cow boy restaurants.

Parisienne waiters are thinking. I don't get it.

Australia has the rudist media called sky news Australia

BBC with their pinkie finger errect: oh yes, the rudest restaurant in AUSTRALIA, how delightful. here in the United Kingdoms we do not have anything close to such vicious animal restaurants. 😂😂🤦‍♂️

That’s not encouraging for any business If someone spoke to me or treated me that way as a customer I would walk out it will only give businesses bad names and customers have plenty of choice they can go else where all these people branding people as Karen’s if shows how much you lack common sense that the only thing you can reference someone as is a Karen I bet this is an experiment but if people encourage this it will be bad for businesses like this

What have we come to?

In a world full of hatred, jealously, filth this one is soooooooooooooo refreshing. I would love to go there and laugh out loud.

Do i get tips at the end from the rude service? What do i get at the end from restraining myself not to punch servers

What u eat is who u R!

Wong kay in london was the orginal rude restaurant.

Im guessing they dont serve alcohol

Just ridiculous

Thats actually good behaviour and service of French immigrants, Hahaha😂

No one cares why is this news?

Imagine having a real Karen walk in that place

Perfect stress relievers! !! Having said that.... I think this is really idiotic.!

This would work here in Los Angeles

Right, as we need more rudeness since we live in a world lack of it! Give me a break 🤢

thats just what 80% of population deserve

That's just stupid🙄Can't even laugh at that🤬

the Narrator in this clip sounds like she is in school. Really unseasoned at what she does.

Need a Karen's in Watford UK please.

Somewhere to go for masochists; good on them...