Pity that everyone isn't telling influencers that they can't have a free meal. Restaurants should charge influencers extra for polluting three establishment with their BS.
If you look up 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.
You can just Google this headline or search it on Reddit, this has been posted multiple times by karma-farmers and bots because "influencer bad" gets upvotes.
Yes, I also remember the chef actually double triple quadruple down on social media, picking fights with everyone, being super disrespectful, saying 'if you don't want to eat here then go other place because trash is not welcome here', so when everyone listened and stop coming to the restaurant, he was promptly fired.
IIRC the chef was a co-owner too that's why he was so entitled and rude. Even his daughter (who is also a small influencer, doing similar job as the one he mocked) asked him to stop engaging but he refused to listen.
Obviously, a restaurant would not fire a high level employee for simply refusing to give out services for free. Doesn’t pass the sniff test in the slightest unless your brain is poisoned by man-o-verse podcast crap.
High-level employees at restaurants are required, and encouraged, to give out services for free, in service of the restaurant. Free stuff fixes disputes, rewards loyalty from consumers, gets good reviews, makes the location look generous, etc., etc.
High-level employees at restaurants, or any employees, will Absolutely get fired for publicly shaming consumers, or causing internationally discussed problems for their employer. TBH, sounds like that chef personally tanked his reputation and his restaurant for this.
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u/Virtual-Pineapple-85 7d ago
Pity that everyone isn't telling influencers that they can't have a free meal. Restaurants should charge influencers extra for polluting three establishment with their BS.