Linda Persson is a restaurant assistant at Gekå’s almost 7,000 square meter restaurant floor.
She enjoys her work, and that’s also how she met her fiance – the TV star Ola-Conny Wallgrenknown from the department store’s own program.
Photo: Stella Pictures Ola-Conny and Linda fell in love at work
The news that the two colleagues were a couple reached the public in June 2022. Shortly after, they got engaged – but three months after the big step, they broke up.
However, the breakup did not last long – they simply could not be without each other.
– Yes, so it was like this that we ended professionally and so but then Ola-Conny felt that no I should contact Linda, I miss her so much, so he texted me. And then we had been invited to a wedding party and he asked if I wanted to come along and that’s the way it is, Linda Persson explained to Happened.
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Stressful in the restaurant at Gekås Ullared
But even if they hang out in the evenings and rest after a workday full of impressions and social meetings, they don’t spend much time together during the actual work shifts.
Linda Persson is busy in the restaurant, where she works both at the cash register, outside in the dining room and at the counter.
It’s most stressful during lunch, she tells Hotellrevyn:
– As much as other restaurants have in a whole day, we have in an hour.
When all the guests have eaten schnitzel, spetta, Tex-Mex or something else on the menu, it usually gets quieter in the restaurant, before the dinner rush starts again at 5 p.m.
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Gekås must have guards: “People block the toilets”
And when there is the most to do at work, life can be chaotic to say the least, says Linda Persson.
– I’ve taken care of people who have passed out because they haven’t eaten or drunk properly, so it’s lucky we exist, she tells Hotellrevyn.
Photo: Thomas Johansson/TT
The most people are in the premises when a pay weekend occurs during the summer holidays. Then there is queuing chaos regardless of what time of day the guests want to come and eat.
– During high season there are long queues outside. We have to have queue guards because otherwise people stand and block the toilets so that customers don’t get out, says Linda Persson to The hotel review.
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