• Waiters at a high-end Manhattan restaurant reportedly told The New York Post they Google anyone who makes a reservation to make sure they're rich.
• A document obtained by The Post apparently confirmed there's a "reservation protocol" in place at the 20-seat Fleming by Le Bilboquet.
• One anonymous waiter reportedly told The Post: "We want to keep the restaurant for special people only."
• A representative for the restaurant also said the restaurant does Google its guests, but that it doesn't only accept people who are rich and famous.
• "What the staff is claiming is absolutely not true and whoever said it is making it up," Josh Vlasta told The Post.
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It's easy for anyone to feel insecure at a high-end restaurant. It's even easier if you know the staff Googled you before you arrived.

According to The New York Post, Fleming by Le Bilboquet, a 20-seat restaurant in Manhattan's Upper East Side, asks its staff to Google guests who try to make a reservation to make sure they're fabulous and wealthy enough to eat there.

Waiters at the restaurant reportedly told The Post that a "strict" policy is in place which sees staff track emailed reservation requests and "pull up each unknown guest on google."

A page-long document titled "Fleming Hostess Reservation Protocol," which was obtained by The Post, seemed to confirm that this is indeed the case.

It also said that requests for a reservation at the restaurant have to be discussed with manager "Alex."

An anonymous waiter at the restaurant, which is owned by billionaire Ronald Perelman and restaurateur Philippe Delgrange, told the publication: "Yes, we Google people. We want to keep the restaurant for special people only."

The waiter added: "There are more rich than famous people coming in but we get Robert De Niro, Paul McCartney, Ivanka Trump. We want to maintain a certain environment for our custumers, rich people, even if it means we're slow."

Another employee told The Post that anyone who doesn't pass the Google screening doesn't get a response to their reservation request — and they have to be "rich" to be accepted.

However, while Josh Vlasta, a representative for Fleming by Le Bilboquet, told The Post that the restaurant does Google its guests, he said it's untrue that they deny seats to people who aren't rich and famous.

"What the staff is claiming is absolutely not true and whoever said it is making it up," he said.

Fleming isn't the only restaurant that Googles its guests before they arrive.

Eleven Madison Park has long used information it finds online to tailor a guest's visit, according to Grub Street, resulting in everything from celebrating birthdays and anniversaries to pairing diners from a certain state with a server from the same state.

Back in 2014, a staff member at Daniel, Daniel Boulud's Manhattan restaurant, also told ABC News that they use Google every time a guest makes a reservation "just to see if they're in the business, maybe if they're a chef or work in the industry."

An employee at Babbo added that they use Google "to find out if a diner is an entertainer or TV personality" so that they cane seat them "in a private area and provide top service" if so.

INSIDER has reached out to Fleming by Le Bilboquet for comment.

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