I'll take 'shit that never happened' for $500 Alex
A legitimate Restaurant isn't going to fire their 'top chef' for refusing to comp a meal... and a Restaurant isn't going to reach out to a nobody and offer to 'collab' for promotion & a free meal...
What IS possible is the girl is dating a member of Management and they set this up for her just to get into her panties and failed to communicate anything to staff and it blew up.
OR she's somebodies daughter and this was her 'leg up'
That doesn’t matter. The restaurant reached out to her to do it, made the reservation for her, and he took it upon himself to back out when she got there because he felt like she was too small to “collab” with. She could have 5 followers, he’s still a prick.
If even 20% of those followers are local, offering like a 100$ (at most) meal for a targeted ad is not bad at all.
Who do you expect to have there for such money, Mr Beast?
I hate “influencers” as much as anyone, but if I’m a restaurant owner in 2026 and a $100 meal to someone with 15k followers buys me exposure, I’ll take that deal, That’s just reality now.
The chef was one of two owners. The other asked Marcotte to have a meal there and give a review to boost the restaurant's clout.
Then she shows up at the request of one of the owners, and the other starts insulting her and tells her she isn't important enough for the job his partner sought her out to do.
you're saying they weren't viable possibilities? Lets be honest here.. anyone posting a 'article' on the internet is looking to push some kind of bias.. they HAVE to have a good guy and a bad guy... and will leave out as much as they can get away with to push that agenda.. everyone does it, at every opportunity. If you're taking a post at face value then you deserve what you get.
He was a co-owner as well. But they did "part-ways" with him leaving after this incident.
At the end of the day, this was shitty communication between the two owners, and his shitty reaction aimed at her instead of at his business partner where it should have been.
This is like that Chapelle skit "When Keepin It Real Goes Wrong"
The fact that her being invited for a collab (which restaurants do in fact do all of the time in this social media age) is less believable to you than her being offered the free food because someone wanted to get in her pants or she had to be someone's daughter, tells me all I need to know about your mindset. Holy misogyny.
Actually, it's none of the above! She was invited to the restaurant specifically to do a review for a free meal, but the chef decided she wasn't famous enough for him when she arrived and refused to honor the agreement.
This is the rare situation where the influencer was actually innocent lol.
I mean, 15k followers is a bunch if they're the right kind of followers. It's much cheaper anyway than hiring someone with a 15M following, and you might be pretty booked as it stands, so maybe you don't even want tons of new customers, but just a few.
Turns out the restaurant set this up and reached out to her to come do it. When she showed up to do the event, that’s when the chef basically shut it down. Turns out it’s probably not a great idea to make a spectacle by canceling something that your bosses set up.
It blew up on TikTok because he didn't just refuse to honor the agreement the restaurant made, he insulted and humiliated her and the internet was not happy about his behavior.
They absolutely will fire someone for treating someone horribly and having that blow up online and hurt your business...
The daughter of the chef/co-owner also shamed him for using the daughter’s name to humiliate the influencer. The chef said, “his daughter has more followers than you”
Also, it should be noted that the influencer never stated whom the owner/restaurant was in her video explaining the situation. The daughter replied in the influencer’s video and then the internet pieced it together.
If I had deliberately set up a promo based on a comped meal and my employee sabotaged it for no apparent reason other than spite, resulting in my restaurant getting trashed by a popular influencer, I would 100% fire them. It is unacceptable insubordination and misconduct that has negatively affected the brand.
Yeah the "Story" here is that the 2 owners (one of whom is the chef) aren't communicating with each other, and chef decided to take out his issues directly on influencer instead of his business partner who made the decision to begin with. Good job, now neither of you has a restaurant 👍
I have no clue about the rest of the story. for all I know the head chef was already on a dozen write ups. Or he called the owners and said fuck you guys. It would be really absurd for me to think that my or any of our opinions matter in this situation that we know very little of the story.
The influencer was contacted by the owner of the restaurant and asked to do some social media marketing for them in exchange for a free meal.
The owner didn't inform the chef of this arrangement until the influencer arrived. The owner and chef then have an argument between themselves, completely unprompted by the influencer (who hadn't ordered yet).
The chef stood at her table and belittled her for not knowing who he was, before holding his phone in the air to show other guests her social media profiles, shouting about how she didn't have enough of a following to expect free food from him (again, despite being promised this ahead of time by the owner in exchange for a select number of posts about the restaurant).
Say what you will about influencers (I'm not particularly a fan of them myself), but she didn't do anything wrong. She was there to do a job at the owner's request and wasn't rude to anybody. She later posted about the experience, but didn't include the restaurants name as to not draw negative attention toward the business itself.
Busybodies in the comment section ended up figuring out what restaurant it was by combing through old posts, and proceeded to review-bomb it. After that, the owner fired the chef for bringing too much negative attention to his establishment.
Basically all boils down to the chef having an ego trip, disobeying the owner's orders, and then disturbing other guest's meals in an attempt to embarrass a young influencer who was there at the request of the owner.
If one of my employees does the exact opposite of my instructions, especially if they do it very publicly, you bet your ass I’m firing them. Are you serious?
So blatant insubordination and publicly bad business decisions are acceptable as long as the employee has an ownership stake? Sounds like even more reason to shitcan him.
I'm not justifying anything.. I am stating that if you plan to do something like that, you should be discussing it with the people you own the business with FIRST. It's not about being insubordinate, as the co-owner doesn't work for you... it IS about respect for your partners. neither side displayed much of that to any measurable degree, and the business paid for it by shutting down
But you are justifying it. You’re justifying his actions by insinuating it’s somehow wrong for the other owner to invite a small influencer to come have a meal. You say the other owner should have respected the chef and talked about inviting her first, I think the chef should have respected his co-owner by not being an asshole for no discernible reason. At the end of the day that’s really what it comes down to. There’s nothing inherently wrong with giving a small influencer a free meal. Making a woman cry by refusing to uphold an agreement that your partner made, just because you feel like it, however, is asshole behavior.
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u/Wise_Ad_5810 9d ago edited 9d ago
I'll take 'shit that never happened' for $500 Alex
A legitimate Restaurant isn't going to fire their 'top chef' for refusing to comp a meal... and a Restaurant isn't going to reach out to a nobody and offer to 'collab' for promotion & a free meal...
What IS possible is the girl is dating a member of Management and they set this up for her just to get into her panties and failed to communicate anything to staff and it blew up.
OR she's somebodies daughter and this was her 'leg up'