goodfood.com
[Australia]
17 November 2013
Daisy Dumas
[…] For pure
meanness, one Friday night at Rockpool Bar and Grill outshines all other
misdemeanors.
''It was a busy
Friday night, the restaurant was going crazy and a couple in their late 20s
came in,'' [general manager Jerry] Courmadias says. ''They ordered a couple of
glasses of champagne and went straight to the main course.''
A few minutes
later, the girl approached the manager. It was her boyfriend's birthday and, as
a surprise, could she please order two 125-gram cans of caviar? After she had
assured the waiter the $1200 price was no problem, she nipped to the toilet,
never to return.
''That was her
break-up line,'' Courmadias says. ''He was pretty devastated, on a number of
levels.''
As for the
calculatedly heartbreaking bill, Courmadias says, ''let's just say we came to
an agreement''.