{"id":2321141,"date":"2024-08-08T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paris-hotel-staffer-drops-bomb-on-serena-williams-says-she-was-unrecognizable-before-rejecting-her\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:13:32","slug":"paris-hotel-staffer-drops-bomb-on-serena-williams-says-she-was-unrecognizable-before-rejecting-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paris-hotel-staffer-drops-bomb-on-serena-williams-says-she-was-unrecognizable-before-rejecting-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Hotel Staffer Drops Bomb on Serena Williams, Says She Was &#8216;Unrecognizable&#8217; Before Rejecting Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fparis-hotel-staffer-drops-bomb-on-serena-williams-says-she-was-unrecognizable-before-rejecting-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2321141&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Serena Williams recently faced an incident at a Paris hotel where \u200cstaff denied her access to a\u2062 rooftop restaurant due to a\u2062 lack \u200cof reservation. Following her complaint on social media, where she expressed disappointment over being &#8220;denied,&#8221; a hotel worker claimed that Williams was\u2062 not recognized and \u2063that the decision was standard protocol for all \u2063guests.\u2063 Despite there \u2063being a couple of \u200bopen tables, they\u200b were\u2062 reserved for\u200b other clients. The hotel issued\u2063 an apology while explaining that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidenflation-comes-for-dcs-favorite-restaurants\/\" title=\"Bidenflation Comes For DC\u2019s Favorite Restaurants\">high-end restaurants<\/a> in Paris are often\u2062 fully \u200bbooked, which limits available\u200c seating. This\u2063 sparked a discussion online, with some criticizing Williams\u200b for using her fame to publicly shame the establishment, while others defended her feelings of entitlement. The situation highlights issues around celebrity treatment\u2062 in the hospitality industry and the challenges of securing tables in\u200d popular \u2062restaurants.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>Days after Serena Williams blew her top on social media because a Paris hotel refused to recognize her importance by giving her a restaurant table on demand, a worker at the hotel said the staff she dealt with did not even recognize her at all.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Yikes @peninsulaparis I&rsquo;ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in a empty restaurant of nicer places but never with my kids. Always a first,&rdquo; Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/serenawilliams\/status\/1820507655250850058\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on X<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>To many the word &ldquo;denied&rdquo; could bring up unpleasant associations with pre-civil rights days in America when people could be &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/serena-williams-whines-about-being-denied-access-to-hotel-restaurant-gets-brutal-fact-check-in-response\/\" title=\"Serena Williams Whines About Being \u2018Denied Access\u2019 to Hotel Restaurant, Gets Brutal Fact Check in Response\">denied service&#038;rdquo<\/a>; due to their race or ethnicity.<\/p>\n<p>A report from <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/08\/07\/entertainment\/serena-williams-was-unrecognizable-to-paris-hotel-staffer-who-denied-access\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Page Six<\/a> said that staffers said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/serena-williams-whines-rejected-restaurant-conveniently-omits-key-fact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williams<\/a> was &ldquo;unrecognizable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When she came, there were only two tables available, and they had been reserved by clients of the hotel,&rdquo; employee Maxine Mannevy said.<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Mannevy said she was not working at the time the tempest began to brew.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t recognize her and feels terrible, but he told her what he would have told any other client, which is to wait downstairs in the bar for a table to become available. That was absolutely nothing personal,&rdquo; Mannevy said.<\/p>\n<p>Mannevy said Williams arrived at the hotel with another woman and a stroller.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Using your fame to trash a restaurant because they did not bend to your entitled demands is being the worst type of person. I thought you were better than this???<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BC201 (@BC0201) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BC0201\/status\/1820565818553553292?\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/food\/2024\/08\/07\/serena-williams-paris-restaurant-reservation-advice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> noted that high-end restaurants, such as the one that became the target of Williams&rsquo;s ire, do not often have walk-in tables available.<\/p>\n<p>Meg Zimbeck, founder of a tour service called Paris by Mouth, said tables in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/olympic-event-cancelled-world-aquatics-discovers-exactly-seine-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paris<\/a> are often reserved for longer periods of time than in American restaurants, which are also often larger than their Paris counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All of that really compresses the number of seats that are available. So you might walk into a restaurant, especially if it&rsquo;s earlier than most people eat here, and see lots of tables that might be reserved for later,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant was profuse in its apologies, but noted that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/caitlin-clark-drops-classy-response-serena-williams-white-people-joke-causes-major-backlash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tennis star<\/a> could not grab what others already had booked.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In response to Ms. Williams&rsquo; tweet, for whom we have the utmost admiration and respect, as we do for all our esteemed guests, we reiterate our deepest apologies that we were not able to offer her a table at our rooftop bar when she arrived with her family and without a reservation,&rdquo; the hotel said in a statement, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/08\/06\/sports\/paris-restaurant-responds-to-serena-williams-after-she-and-her-kids-were-denied-table-indeed-fully-booked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do always try to make space for walk-in guests, but sometimes this is not possible,&rdquo; the hotel said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What&rsquo;s your goal in posting this?<\/p>\n<p>Outrage from strangers? Hard working servers lose their jobs?<\/p>\n<p>All because you couldn&rsquo;t sit at a table at a fully reserved restaurant. To think they should experience negatives bc you didn&rsquo;t get what you want and have a following.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; paige s. (@PaigeSully88) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaigeSully88\/status\/1820561779681878387?\">August 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On August 5th, our rooftop bar was indeed fully booked, and the only unoccupied tables at that time belonged to our gourmet restaurant, L&rsquo;Oiseau Blanc, which was also fully reserved,&rdquo; the statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As an alternative, Ms. Williams was offered an outside table downstairs at the hotel&rsquo;s La Terrasse Kl&eacute;ber,&rdquo; the statement said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Williams tweeted, \u201cYikes @peninsulaparis I\u2019ve been denied access to rooftop to eat in an empty restaurant of nicer places but never with my kids. Always a first.\u201d The term &#8220;denied&#8221; may evoke negative memories of pre-civil rights America when individuals faced discrimination based on race or ethnicity. According to Page Six, hotel staff mentioned that Williams was &#8220;unrecognizable.&#8221; Employee Maxine Mannevy explained that when she arrived, only two tables were available, both of which had been reserved by other guests. <\/p>\n<p>Mannevy clarified that she was not present during the incident and noted that her colleague didn\u2019t recognize Williams and felt bad about it; however, he informed her as he would any other guest to wait in the bar for a table to open up. She added that Williams came with another woman and a stroller.<\/p>\n<p>Critics took to social media questioning why someone would use their fame to criticize a restaurant for not meeting their demands. A report from The Washington Post highlighted how high-end restaurants often do not have walk-in availability due to longer reservation times compared to American establishments. Meg Zimbeck from Paris by Mouth explained this further, stating that many tables might appear empty but are actually reserved for later diners.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant issued an apology while explaining they could not accommodate Williams without prior reservations: \u201cIn response to Ms. Williams\u2019 tweet, we express our deepest apologies for being unable to offer her a table at our rooftop bar upon arrival with her family.\u201d They emphasized their efforts in trying to accommodate walk-in guests but acknowledged it is sometimes unfeasible.<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued: \u201cOn August 5th, our rooftop bar was fully booked; the only available tables belonged to our gourmet restaurant L\u2019Oiseau Blanc which was also completely reserved.\u201d As an alternative option, they offered Ms. Williams seating at La Terrasse Kl\u00e9ber downstairs outside the hotel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2321142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Serena-Williams-.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[36238,37543,37542,34841],"class_list":["post-2321141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-celebrity-news","tag-hotel-staff","tag-paris-hotel","tag-serena-williams"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Serena-Williams-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2321142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}