Back in 2013, a little reality show about the waitstaff at a West Hollywood restaurant hit the airwaves. Five years later and it is one of the most iconic series on Bravo. The show follows the lives of the servers, bartenders, and bussers who work at SUR, which is owned by "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Lisa Vanderpump.
While the cast members have become full-fledged reality stars in their own right and the show has some of the most authentic drama of any reality series, the stuff that happens off-camera might be the juiciest.
We rounded up some secrets you may not know about the series.
The full cast doesn't actually work there very much.
Jax Taylor once revealed in a Reddit AMA that they only work at SUR if they have time. "The show is taking up a lot of my time right now, my businesses are taking a ton of time," he said. "When I have a chance to go in, I do."
Scheana Shay has been living in Las Vegas full time to perform in the show "Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man," so there's no pretending she's still a frequent server. Though in 2015, she said the cast has to work occasionally.
"Production can't force us to work if we don't want to,"she told "Juicy Scoop" Podcast. "But if there is a couple weeks that go by and people aren't working, we get a phone call from Ken [Todd] and Lisa."
If you go to SUR on a busy weekend night, you'll likely run into at least one member of the cast. Plus, newer cast member Brittany Cartwright is always Instagramming from the restaurant.
Tom Tom is still not open.
Despite all the fanfare about Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz's new bar with Lisa Vanderpump, Tom Tom is still not open for business. A fan drove by the space on May 5 and found it was still under construction. This is quite the head scratcher seeing as the bar was first announced during the season five finale back in March 2017.
Tom Sandoval went on "Watch What Happens Live" in April 2018 and said the bar will open late-May or early June 2018, and well, it's already June and it's still not open. Maybe season seven will provide some clues?
Lala Kent’s mysterious boyfriend is actually movie producer Randall Emmett.
Lala Kent went to great lengths to hide the identity of her boyfriend during her first season on the show. There were a lot of rumors about his identity but it turns out his name is Randall Emmett and he's a movie producer and financier. He's perhaps best known for producing the Starz series "Power" and the recent John Gotti biopic "Gotti" starring John Travolta.
He and Lala have been more public about their relationship since his divorce in 2017 and he is sometimes referenced on the show by his first name.
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