Dressed in white and blue shirts or in grey or black uniforms emblazoned with their company logos, valets scurry around the streets of Beirut, at the entrances of posh restaurants and fashionable clubs where the Lebanese, from jeunesse dorée to middle-aged businessmen, like to see and be seen. They have become a fixture in our life, an immutable service on which all venue owners heavily rely. In a city where the nightlife industry prevails, winning over more traditional commercial sectors with time, finding a parking spot has become a tricky task. Fashionable areas such as Gemayzeh, Monot, Downtown, Abdel Wahab Street, as well as venues like Sky Bar, White, Riviera, Centrale and Buddha Bar boast a flurry of valets waiting to park the vehicles of customers going out for dinner, a dance or just to grab a quick drink. Valet parking companies seem to have sprouted around Beirut. Primitive business
