Talk about getting the last laugh......Mark McEwan's new restaurant ONE in the Hazelton Hotel got across the board pans for service. Tips must have been as scarce as hen's teeth. But now the l6 front of house staff who took the abuse are having the last laugh. They shared a winning Lotto 649 ticket and came away with round a quarter of a mil each....

Two thoughts: can't imagine newly enriched busboys and waiters are going to hang around One any more. Even now they must be heading beachwards glad to be shot of grumpy patrons........

Now presumably ONE will have to start all over again recruiting and training a new team and just when service was improving. During the recent spell of Indian summer I lunched at the sidewalk cafe - I was lucky to get in at 2.30 in the afternoon, the place was packed - and was surprised how good the service was...