I can’t speak to what cognitive transformation occurs, if any, but the restaurant is Durgin Park. I’m not sure what kind of elaboration you’re looking for.
It’s kind of fun, if one is in the right mood for it.
I find something similar (though less extreme) is not uncommon in diners.
Questionable Content features a coffee shop whose main selling point is rudeness to customers as well. It’s mostly portrayed as sassy banter the customers enjoy and occasionally partake in. Wikipedia’s article on Durgin Park gives the same impression. In the webcomic, customers also tend to be hipsters who enjoy the originality; I don’t know about real life.
Durgin Park’s customers are more middle-class tourists, and it’s not quite as extreme as the fictional coffee shop in QC, but the spirit is similar. As long as we’re talking fictional examples, I’m reminded of Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi as well, which I also gather was inspired by a RL vendor.
I am curious about what transformation in tourists’ thoughts occurs to consider rude waitstaff a feature of said location. Can you elaborate?
My guess:
A restaurant famous for having rude staff? I don’t believe it. I have to see it. If it’s really true, that will make a good story for my friends.
I can’t speak to what cognitive transformation occurs, if any, but the restaurant is Durgin Park. I’m not sure what kind of elaboration you’re looking for.
It’s kind of fun, if one is in the right mood for it.
I find something similar (though less extreme) is not uncommon in diners.
Conan O’Brien sent Jack McBrayer and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to The Wieners Circle (which in the words of Wikipedia is, apart from its food, known for “the mutual verbal abuse between the employees and the customers during the late-weekend hours”).
This American Life also did a story on The Wieners Circle.
Questionable Content features a coffee shop whose main selling point is rudeness to customers as well. It’s mostly portrayed as sassy banter the customers enjoy and occasionally partake in. Wikipedia’s article on Durgin Park gives the same impression. In the webcomic, customers also tend to be hipsters who enjoy the originality; I don’t know about real life.
Durgin Park’s customers are more middle-class tourists, and it’s not quite as extreme as the fictional coffee shop in QC, but the spirit is similar. As long as we’re talking fictional examples, I’m reminded of Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi as well, which I also gather was inspired by a RL vendor.