Post by staggerstag on Mar 12, 2019 1:54:47 GMT
I'd never heard of them before reading the article below which I was linked to after reading an article on the same site about a Florida woman who last week shot her husband in bed because he was snoring too loudly. At any rate, line sitters are people (often down-at-heel) who are paid by more affluent people to sit outside hard-to-get-into restaurants and keep a spot for them at the front of the queue. These line sitters take their places hours before the restaurant opens. The restaurant featured here is Galatoire's in New Orleans where sitters get paid 'by the head' so if they are keeping a table for five people they get paid up to $100.
I first heard of Galatoire's by reading the Tennessee Williams play Vieux Carre where it gets a namecheck along with Antoine's and Commander's Palace. On my trip to NO some years ago I was really wanting to take myself and my girlfriend at the time to one of these restaurants but of course I wasn't sure how snooty they were and so we ended up not going. I made up for it by having the best po' boy in town, though, so I had the last laugh.
Reading the article, though, Galatoire's seems to be quite an easy going establishment with no apparent dress code (at least for Friday lunch) Maybe we should have gone after all!
Line sitters & lunch at Galatoire's
I first heard of Galatoire's by reading the Tennessee Williams play Vieux Carre where it gets a namecheck along with Antoine's and Commander's Palace. On my trip to NO some years ago I was really wanting to take myself and my girlfriend at the time to one of these restaurants but of course I wasn't sure how snooty they were and so we ended up not going. I made up for it by having the best po' boy in town, though, so I had the last laugh.
Reading the article, though, Galatoire's seems to be quite an easy going establishment with no apparent dress code (at least for Friday lunch) Maybe we should have gone after all!
Line sitters & lunch at Galatoire's