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Being one of the few places in southern Sweden where it is presumed that the glitterati hole up on weekends (I wouldn't tell you if they did, sorry) we get surprisingly few questions about it. We get a lot of semi-statements instead, like "I'm sure you see a lot of so-and-so". Maybe it's because one does not want to appear too curious about these things, or maybe it's a vague hope that we'll serve-and-tell without further prompting. So, now that I've had about ten different people in the course of a few days ask me about presumptive celebs and their eating disorders I'm a bit taken aback. Why the sudden interest? Some have quoted TV-shows such as "Livet blir bättre" and others have sent me links on drink-o-rexia articles in the broadsheets.
Well, I do have something to say about this and it has to be divided into two, very separate, points.

The first is that we never have, and never will, reveal the identity of any of our customers. Nor will we be the misquoted source in the full-of-nonsense articles in the evening rags. Merci beaucoup.

The second is that people rarely walk around with "eating disorder" tattooed to their foreheads. They don't tend to tell complete stranges, such as their waiters on a Friday evening, that they haven't eaten all day so that they can drink all the booze they want for dinner either. Also, and correct me if I got this wrong, people with eating disorders are not yet required to inform the people in their surroundings of their condition as I don't think it's been added to the pandemic-causing contagious diseases-list yet.

It happens to be my personal opinion that my job in the restaurant is not to keep the gossip pages filled, but rather make sure that every single guest that leaves our doors has had a positive food experience. I'm just not that into gossip. It has a tacky aftertaste.

The comment I can make is that I'm very willing to hand out contact details of certain scoop-seeking "journalists" to any celebrity that asks. I'm sure that falls under some law of notification, perhaps even under "pandemic of spreading stupidity".