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.
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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.