This article was originally published on excellenttown.com
Meeting your favorite A-lister can be just as dreamy and wholesome as you imagine it to be, or it can be a huge disappointment. Maybe it’s for the best that for most of us, meeting our favorite star stays in the realm of our imagination. People with jobs in food service get to see celebrities unfiltered in the real world—those who are good, those who are awful, and everyone in between. With this in mind, we’ve collected stories from Reddit users who served celebrities at restaurants. Do you have a favorite celebrity? Read on to see if they made the list and what they are really like in real life. Or don’t – if you don’t want to shatter that perfect image you have of them!
Matt Dillon
Here is a story about a restaurant manager going above and beyond to provide excellent service to Matt Dillon: letting him in when the store was already closed, then comping his meal. I don’t know if I would be that nice, not even for a celebrity. Also, I wonder who Matt Dillon is since he’s obviously supposed to be some kind of celebrity.
I’d heard the name, obviously, but I couldn’t name anything that he was in. So I Googled his name and looked at his filmography, and guess what? I still have no idea who this guy is. If I was a restaurant manager and he came knocking at my door 15 minutes after closing, I would probably assume he was just some rando and turn him away. Although, to be fair, I might turn away a regular celebrity as well. It’s late, man, I wanna go home.