The Two Extra Seats
I would like, one time, to be in the building.”
Evelyn is a person who has spent twenty years running restaurants and she has an extremely well-calibrated sense of what will and will not blow up in her face.
“Conditions,” she said.
“You don’t go into the dining room.
You don’t speak to a guest.
You don’t record anything — Hannah, I mean it, two-party consent state, you will hand that woman a lawsuit and I’ll lose my license.
And if it starts to go badly you walk down the back stairs and I’ll deal with it.”