Their loyalty is to Moscow, and to a particular bit of the power establishment there.
There's also, so I'm told, the embarrassing bit in a certain class of establishment where they drape the napkin over your lap with some little silver tongs – so intimate!
Behind them lurks the powerful military establishment, another bit of the Thai body politic unlikely to welcome back a new Thaksinite government.
"He's a bit of a threat to the old establishment," says Michael D. Intriligator, a specialist in Russian economic policy at the Milken Institute and a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"I had a bit of a belligerent attitude towards the establishment," he says, and while he can now see how a teacher or mentor could have been useful, he is proud to have managed without.
In a cruel bit of irony, the owner of the establishment then fired the bartender via Facebook message.
It's a bit of a middle finger to the "establishment" and a symbol of ironic disobedience for the remaining liberal residents of the city, which is why, some say, the Santa Monica City Council is so eager to see it removed. .
Wood says Clinton is a little bit too "establishment" for her, although she added that the celebration of anti-establishment candidates — Trump especially — has been "all hype".
The slot Treva occupies has been a bit of a restaurant graveyard, with four establishments in a dozen years, but Treva's vital signs are strong.
Manmohan Singh, the finance minister who began India's economic liberalisation in the early 1990s, explains that several BITs have been signed granting national treatment to foreign investors, but that: "We are not ready as yet for right of establishment.
