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Two trendy restaurants in Paris good-looking people better tables than not-so-good-looking people. This is according to staff who used to at the two eateries. The former employees a Parisian newspaper about the restaurants' seating policy. They : "The good-looking customers are to the good places, where they can be easily ; the non-good-looking ones must be in the corners of the room." This rule did not 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 based on looks. One ex-waitress said: "Anyone short, without a model's physique and over 30 need not ."

The ex-staff members said the restaurant owners to sure the restaurant had a good image by attractive guests in easy-to- places. They said the restaurants' owner would regularly to make sure his 'beauty policy' was . If he saw someone whose face he didn't like at a good table, he would the staff: "There are good-looking people, you put them here; there are bad-looking people, you them there." Furthermore, staff could not to give a table to customers who telephoned to make a booking, just in case they were not beautiful. Staff only decided where to seat them after they came to the restaurant and at their faces.

 


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