Restaurants Are Struggling Yet These Influencers Are Still Asking For Free Food And This Food Critic Shames Them
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Amid the coronavirus outbreak, restaurants around the world are struggling to survive. Many eateries have had to close, some have adopted a takeout model, while others have started selling groceries just to keep their workers. Business Insider has stated that 1 in 5 restaurants in the US could permanently shutter because of the pandemic.
But there’s nothing sacred when it comes to influencers. It turns out, coronavirus doesn’t stop them from wanting a fine dining experience. Free of charge, of course. And the Aussie food critic John Lethlean isn’t buying it. He has been exposing the scroungers in a series of Instagram posts captioned with “#couscousforcomment” for a while now. John has now got a fan base of 20.9K followers on his Instagram account. And no freebie-craving influencer is safe from his radar!
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John has been exposing the influencers who still ask for free food in return for a “review” amid the current crisis
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This blogger thought a free b-day brunch menu for his posts would be an excellent transaction
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The wine merchants looked far from impressed by the deal
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This foodie has his own idea of collaboration in mind
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Bored Panda contacted John Lethlean, Australia’s only national restaurant critic, and asked him to share his opinion on such non-exemplary behavior. And John wasn’t sugarcoating the situation: “As a restaurant reviewer with 23 years experience, the notion that these people ‘review’ makes me sick.”
According to John, there are plenty of people in the café and restaurant spaces who are extremely ignorant of how things operate. “They are susceptible to bluff and bravado. I can see how those who are marginal from a profit perspective might believe this is a reasonable quid pro quo.”
In fact, some restaurant runners “are not in a position to analyze the impact of this so-called ‘influence’ and they don’t think about what it may or may not do to their brands.”
With that aside, up until the coronavirus outbreak, the Australian restaurant industry was doing “good.” John commented: “It was fiercely competitive, oversupplied with providers but too expensive, partly attributable to Australia’s employment laws and penalty rates.”
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I call them Influenzas. Actually, rather apt considering the current situation.
Yeah, you got that from comments I made in another thread (the comics on the travel company).
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At the time when restaurant workers (minimal wage/essential workers) need support, they're here to try and exploit others in a pandemic. Disgusting.
They're just bums & lazy, greedy jerks that aren't worth the time of day.
foood4dayzzz with 3,018 followers is pathetic. Each post is liked by only 300 pax only (So 90% of these follower are not human) . . . Even my daughter'g IG do better.
I am one of the essential workers and I have to bust my butt everyday at work and I never ask for anything free. I pay for everything I want and have. I mean, right now, I am still waiting for my damn income tax return and am flat broke. Yet I never ask for anything for free. These people need to get off of Instagram and get a job.
We already have a Corona pandemic going on. Don't need an influenza pandemic on top of that. Stop paying attention to parasites and leechers and it will die out. Influenzas only exist because stupid sheeple follow and like them. ( Which actually says a lot about how many stupid morons live on this planet.)
Hey, I was just reading this article and was wondering if anyone would be willing to collaborate with me. I have around 500 insta followers, so any free stuff would be appreciated!! xoxoxo
The insta whiz/wish/would-be so-called "influencers" (my, how I detest that word! That whole digital phenomenon group is more like influenzars to me, spreading contagious febrile non-events touted as being the apex of human accomplishment. A bottomless empty void of nothing to fill your days with. Grrrr.) are having a hard wake-up when the parenthesis they have been living in now suddenly ruptures and they find themselves living in the real world.
Ah...it's so refreshing to see these so called influencers losing their powers. Time for these twats to get a real job.
Let's just call them beggars an not influencers. Influencers actually do something new and creative with what's out there. Not take a photo an act like they made it just because it's got a hat in a sunset or a dish of food they were going to eat. That's just online diary's. Not news. Not advertisements. They aren't famous. They only reach their peer groups who constantly try to one-up each other. They bring no new business in except more beggars. Places and creatives (restaurants, clothing, designers, architects,etc...) can do their own advertisements or hire legit people/company's for that. Not a 20-? with an iPhone an app.
There are some that are obnoxious and taking things too far. But the right micro creators can absolutely bring business to struggling restaurants. This article is very one sided, and is doing restaurants a huge disservice by not talking about the power of a proper micro influencer campaign.
Personally, I'd like to see anyone who calls themselves an "influencer" be forced to get a real job in the service industry for a term of no less than a year.
All these (so called) influencers need a really intimate relationship. With a 45 magnum at high velocity.
Influencer: A self-entitled person without empathy demanding free goods and services from others for their own benefit, for doing what everyone can do - taking pictures of themselves and posting on social media.
A worthless mildew and a bunch of parasites trying to profit from an even greater mass of the uneducated ones. Yuck.
I always wonder how they can do this to any business and think it’s ok. It’s like they inflate their ego and sense of self worth to astronomical proportions and expect others to do what they want when they want it. I have no problem with people that have good content such as reliable craft lessons or recommendations and if businesses want to work with them that’s ok but for a few pictures and posts is ridiculous when they are begging and offering exposure as the “payment”
The appalling command of language these “marketers” have makes their offers even more laughable. If you can’t craft a scrounging email then why should anyone believe you can craft an appealing review?
Most do just ask without any further information. Just say no and move on. The most annoying thing about influencers is the people they beg to beg for sympathy or whatever just the same way. "Oh, look how dumb and selfish they are!" - yes they are. If everyone would just refuse their beggerey and bratism, it would have ended years ago.
This is what the "president" would be doing if he hadn't conned a bunch of misogynistic, xenophobic yahoos into thinking hatred is a virtue.
Influencers are probably Democrat voters. Getting free stuff for nothing, that's exactly what they're promising everyone.
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I call them Influenzas. Actually, rather apt considering the current situation.
Yeah, you got that from comments I made in another thread (the comics on the travel company).
Load More Replies... At the time when restaurant workers (minimal wage/essential workers) need support, they're here to try and exploit others in a pandemic. Disgusting.
They're just bums & lazy, greedy jerks that aren't worth the time of day.
foood4dayzzz with 3,018 followers is pathetic. Each post is liked by only 300 pax only (So 90% of these follower are not human) . . . Even my daughter'g IG do better.
I am one of the essential workers and I have to bust my butt everyday at work and I never ask for anything free. I pay for everything I want and have. I mean, right now, I am still waiting for my damn income tax return and am flat broke. Yet I never ask for anything for free. These people need to get off of Instagram and get a job.
We already have a Corona pandemic going on. Don't need an influenza pandemic on top of that. Stop paying attention to parasites and leechers and it will die out. Influenzas only exist because stupid sheeple follow and like them. ( Which actually says a lot about how many stupid morons live on this planet.)
Hey, I was just reading this article and was wondering if anyone would be willing to collaborate with me. I have around 500 insta followers, so any free stuff would be appreciated!! xoxoxo
The insta whiz/wish/would-be so-called "influencers" (my, how I detest that word! That whole digital phenomenon group is more like influenzars to me, spreading contagious febrile non-events touted as being the apex of human accomplishment. A bottomless empty void of nothing to fill your days with. Grrrr.) are having a hard wake-up when the parenthesis they have been living in now suddenly ruptures and they find themselves living in the real world.
Ah...it's so refreshing to see these so called influencers losing their powers. Time for these twats to get a real job.
Let's just call them beggars an not influencers. Influencers actually do something new and creative with what's out there. Not take a photo an act like they made it just because it's got a hat in a sunset or a dish of food they were going to eat. That's just online diary's. Not news. Not advertisements. They aren't famous. They only reach their peer groups who constantly try to one-up each other. They bring no new business in except more beggars. Places and creatives (restaurants, clothing, designers, architects,etc...) can do their own advertisements or hire legit people/company's for that. Not a 20-? with an iPhone an app.
There are some that are obnoxious and taking things too far. But the right micro creators can absolutely bring business to struggling restaurants. This article is very one sided, and is doing restaurants a huge disservice by not talking about the power of a proper micro influencer campaign.
Personally, I'd like to see anyone who calls themselves an "influencer" be forced to get a real job in the service industry for a term of no less than a year.
All these (so called) influencers need a really intimate relationship. With a 45 magnum at high velocity.
Influencer: A self-entitled person without empathy demanding free goods and services from others for their own benefit, for doing what everyone can do - taking pictures of themselves and posting on social media.
A worthless mildew and a bunch of parasites trying to profit from an even greater mass of the uneducated ones. Yuck.
I always wonder how they can do this to any business and think it’s ok. It’s like they inflate their ego and sense of self worth to astronomical proportions and expect others to do what they want when they want it. I have no problem with people that have good content such as reliable craft lessons or recommendations and if businesses want to work with them that’s ok but for a few pictures and posts is ridiculous when they are begging and offering exposure as the “payment”
The appalling command of language these “marketers” have makes their offers even more laughable. If you can’t craft a scrounging email then why should anyone believe you can craft an appealing review?
Most do just ask without any further information. Just say no and move on. The most annoying thing about influencers is the people they beg to beg for sympathy or whatever just the same way. "Oh, look how dumb and selfish they are!" - yes they are. If everyone would just refuse their beggerey and bratism, it would have ended years ago.
This is what the "president" would be doing if he hadn't conned a bunch of misogynistic, xenophobic yahoos into thinking hatred is a virtue.
Influencers are probably Democrat voters. Getting free stuff for nothing, that's exactly what they're promising everyone.
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