Another guest, he wanted a ton of whipped cream. What do you think he wanted that for?
What do I win for guessing?
Posted on 07/07/2008 5:50:59 PM PDT by prolifefirst
In 30 years, I have provided this hotel and our guests with over a million orders. One million, two hundred. I have seen a lot of people that I have seen on television. Some use alias names, but I can look on the sheet and know exactly who they are. It's kind of cute because they don't realize you really know who they are. You go along with it.
You'd be amazed. You get the guests that really admire their pets. One wanted caviar, and she wanted my waiter to actually hand-feed it to the feline when we were upstairs. Beluga. Nothing but the best. $95 an ounce. On a china plate. It was gorgeous. The cat loved it.
The waiter was kind of shocked. When we first told him, he thought it was a joke -- until he actually got up there and saw the little cat was actually waiting on him. Diamond bracelet on her neck.
» Click to enlarge image Vearlene Gist says one celeb insisted on bathing in Evian. (Keith Hale/Sun-Times) We've got chopped burgers for the dogs. Evian water, we serve our pets. Chicken breast. We have a whole [pet] food menu, not so much from the can. Hand-prepared by my chef. I'm not kidding. Most of the time it's filet mignon, liver pate. For me, personally? It would be the Dom champagne, of course. Fresh strawberries with whipped cream. That's after I've eaten that steak, that baked potato and a salad. And I'll be all good.
One point we had to order three cases of water for a famous person because she only bathes in Evian. We had to pour it in the tub, while she was there, to make sure it was Evian. They filled the whole bath up. I can't give out names. It was a famous musician. Pellegrino would have given her more bubbles.
Another guest, he wanted a ton of whipped cream. What do you think he wanted that for? We won't ask, but we provided. Two large buckets. They came down empty.
The average cost for breakfast will run you anywhere from $32 on up. That's for juice, coffee, fruits and pastries. If you go for meats, $60.
The visiting NBA teams stay here. They try to eat like normal people -- and some not like normal people. But Vearl is here, so I make sure they stay normal. . .. They'll go, ''I need this.'' And I say, ''Do you think you really want that? You've got a game."
The waiters get 18 percent of the bill.
I have stayed once upstairs. I called downstairs. I got my service. My waiter came. Fantastic. We didn't let them know it was me. When they came up, they said, ''You!?''
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What is it likely to do to a person’s soul to have to cater to super rich people like this day after day.
Being as we'd stay there for 10 or more days at a pop, we got to know staff pretty well, and some of them had some pretty good stories.
The one we remember most was about the guy who'd invented - and patented - the pop top ringie-thingie we all see daily on our beers and sodas. He'd come down poolside in the morning, close his eyes, and vegetate......repeat for weeks on end.
The pool guys and I decided he was counting sheep, since he got a fraction of a cent for every can that's produced.
Did these individuals earn the money with which they bought these goods & services? If so, what is the big deal? If I want to feed my cat $95 an ounce treats and I earned that $95, that’s MY business, isn’t it? Or have we become a socialist state while I was sleeping? I guard VIPs all the time. Some are jerks and some are great. Same as the rest of us.
“One wanted caviar, and she wanted my waiter to actually hand-feed it to the feline when we were upstairs. Beluga. Nothing but the best. $95 an ounce. On a china plate. It was gorgeous. The cat loved it. “
I am suspicious here. My personal experience with cats is that the more it costs, the less likely they are to play with it or eat it.
“One wanted caviar, and she wanted my waiter to actually hand-feed it to the feline when we were upstairs. Beluga. Nothing but the best. $95 an ounce. On a china plate. It was gorgeous. The cat loved it.”
Yecchh! Caviar is disgusting. I have tried it a few times when it was offered by someone I didn’t want to offend, but I would really rather have fed it to my cat.
What exactly does that mean? Did you see that the waiters get an automatic 18% tip? Do the math there. Do you feel that wealthy people are inherently evil because they have gobs of money? If so, why is that?
But that's just me and my catz.
/johnny
Another guest, he wanted a ton of whipped cream. What do you think he wanted that for?
What do I win for guessing?
If you can’t see what’s wrong with feeding a can $95 an ounce cavier, I don’t think we have any common ground.
I wonder if you have unknowingly incurred some damage catering to these “very rich” people for your career.
My personal experience with cats is that the more it costs, the less likely they are to play with it or eat it.
But they will bring you a (still live) roach at 0530 when you are sitting down and can't move, and present it like it was pheasant flambe or something.
/johnny
I thought of the same album cover.
Please define exactly what you find wrong with it because I can't figure out why anyone would care. Who is hurt by feeding a cat $95 an ounce caviar?
But there isn't anything wrong with 'taters, dogs, or steaks.
But the expensive caviar stays on MY plate, and the the catz can get bent.
/johnny
It’s not my “career” it’s something I do on the side to help out a friend (at about $2-3K a day, though, I might add). I am a recruiter by trade.
I think you’re at the wrong website, so let me give you some links:
http://www.democraticunderground.com
We conservatives don’t think we have the right to tell other people how to spend their hard-earned money.
ENJOY!!
Well, if you remain a good Christian witness while doing so, it probably does the soul quite well, thank you.
And it probably isn’t bad for the wallet, either.
Are they not paying through the nose for everything they get? Knowing how hotels mark things up they are undoubtedly being over charged. And then the waiter gets 18%. I wish I got 18% of what my customers ordered.
So these people are creating well paying jobs.
What a twisted envious little soul must you have to resent that.
Do you have less because they have more?
I would rather feed my wonderful cat $95 caviar than ever meet B.O. HUSSEIN and I would VOTE for my Cat without the bat of the eye. Screw B.O.!
Depends of whose caviar it is. If it's mine, Cayanne and SW are going to get hurt. Because they aren't getting it.
They are on a strict diet.
I will be fine with it, though. Please to send up some more.
/johnny
Thank you!
One of my most favorite album covers when I was a little steveo.
lol..
as an aside, I didn’t know that she was 3 months pregnant when the photo was taken...
But, but, that $95 could be donated to feed the hungry, the oppressed, the homeless; but most of all the destitute masses of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, so they would quit hating us and lopping off heads, and trying to blow up our buildings.
/surely I don’t need to.
Lol, I imagine we all guessed. I’ve seen that picture before too - but I liked Herb Alpert....
From the headline I guess I expected more than merely feeding caviar to pets or bathing in Evian. Kinda pedestrian eccentricity, perhaps, but perverted? Heck no... I could think of worse... :-).
Because the caviar is GONE.
/johnny
Jesus devoted a big portion of his teaching to warning people that wealth can easily kill the soul.
People with too much money and no brains or common sense. I woulnd’t work in a place like that. Feed a dog caviar on a china plate? Let them feed their own dog. They sit and watch how people do what they want them to do and laugh inside. No way. Evian water? It’s a good thing she DID watch them pour it otherwise, how in theeeeeee hell would she have known it was the right water? What jokes these people are. Wow...total wastes with those kinds of demands no matter how much money they have.
It would cause their soul to be EMPLOYED.
Don't know if you've looked around much, but the poor folks around here aren't hiring.
Seems like only them rich folks have the money to keep a man down by giving him a lift up.
/johnny
The operative word there is CAN, and so CAN any other number of things. Are people worshipping these luxury goods? Are they engaged in immoral acts so as to get more luxury goods? Perhaps. As a Christian, I pray for them. As a Conservative, I keep my nose out of their business.
/johnny
They get burnout, just like social workers and folks in criminal justice.
Whenever I read articles like this, I remember that under an Obama Admin., folks like this will not go away. They will receive special exceptions that will allow them to hang on to and consolidate their wealth among a handful of the idle rich; those with time on their hands to blow their money this way.
Those excluded in the BHO years will be the working successful and small business folks who worked or are working their way up. They know the value of a $ and generally avoid burning money in idiot ways like this.
Jesus did not condemn wealth. He said, “The love of money is the root of all evil,” and “No man can serve two masters. You cannot serve God and money.”
It is none of my business what someone else does with their money. That’s between them, God, and the IRS.
you have absolutely no way of knowing whether or not the person feeding their cat the $95 caviar at the ritz carlton also contributes millions to worthwhile charities which feed, house, cloth lots of people. do you? having money doesn’t mean your soul is not intact. and you sound suspiciously like a person who suffers class envy.
Wealth will not rot the soul by it's self but envy will every time.
Poverty has caused a lot more misery and evil than money ever has. Money in and of itself is not evil but the obsession with material things can lead to a lot of personal problems, there's no doubt about that. "Money is the root of all evil" is misattributed to Jesus Christ (Actually stated as "the love of money" by Paul the Apostle in his letter to Timothy the Apostle}
The cover girl for this LP was selling her autograph for $10 at a record show in Seattle 3 years ago. Since it has been over 40 years she had aged somewhat.
Envy will kill your soul even faster.
I agreed with this point of view until I woke up from a bender and found that my three stray cats had eaten my freshly transplanted leg.
That was the first image to pop in my head, too.
Wealth will not rot the soul by it's self but envy will every time.
I think it is the LOVE OF MONEY, which is quite different... and envy will also rot the soul, for sure! God has put a lot of riches into a lot of faithful hands! For reference, see Bible!
When a rich person spends $95 on cat food, the money does not evaporate. It gets divided up among the hotel staff, the folks who made the can, the folks who hauled it to the hotel, the ones who caught the fish, the processor, and about 100 others. It is taxed every time it changes hands so that liberals like you will get every opportunity to give some of it to a dope smoking, non-working lowlife in the form of a welfare payment. (In addition to the non-dope smoking, non-lowlife welfare recipient of course). Anybody who says a rich man is “wasting” money when he buys a luxury item is a pathetic economic illiterate. It is far better to buy something and thus give the money to working people rather than giving it to non-workers.
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