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A dinner where the waiters insult the guests

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Eating a mediocre bread roll becomes avant-garde art when the waiter is actively insulting you. This globally touring interactive dinner circumvents the fourth wall by forcing paying patrons to become unscripted extras in a chaotic 1970s British sitcom, utilizing improvisational hostility and flying cutlery to mask the fact that you're paying premium prices for a standard chicken dinner.

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