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Two [trendy / trending] restaurants in Paris give good-looking people better tables than not-so-good-looking people. This is according [by / to] staff who used to work at the two [cafeterias / eateries] . The former employees told a Parisian newspaper about the restaurants' [seating / sitting] policy. They said: "The good-looking customers are [fed / led] to the good places, where they can be easily [seeing / seen] ; the non-good-looking ones must be seated in the corners [of / on] the room." This rule did not [reply / apply] to celebrity diners. The rule for them was that, "pretty or ugly, old or young," they got the good tables. Even the waiters and waitresses were employed [basted / based] on looks. One ex-waitress said: "Anyone short, without a model's physique and over 30 need [not / non] apply."

The ex-staff members said the restaurant owners wanted to make sure the restaurant had a good image by seating [attractiveness / attractive] guests in easy-to-see places. They said the restaurants' owner would visit [regular / regularly] to make sure his 'beauty policy' [was / wasn't] working. If he saw someone whose face he didn't like at a good table, he would [say / tell] the staff: "There are good-looking people, you put them here; there are bad-looking people, you put [him / them] there." Furthermore, staff could not [promise / promises] to give a table to customers who [telephoning / telephoned] to make a booking, just [in / on] case they were not beautiful. Staff only decided where to [suit / seat] them after they came to the restaurant and [looked / checked] at their faces.