‘Influencer’ Expects To Get A Free Meal At This Restaurant ‘For Exposure’, Writes A Nasty One-Star Review When They Don’t
It’s no big secret that a sizeable hunk of Yelpers and so-called food ‘critics’ are privileged, arrogant, and selfish individuals who want free stuff handed to them in exchange for their ‘magnanimous’ attention online. It takes only a minute to realize that these Yelpers can’t hold a candle to real gastronomical pundits.
One Yelper got extremely mad after their meal wasn’t compensated. Nor were they given a discount in exchange for the promise of ‘exposure.’ See, the Yelper thought that their promise of posting that they loved the restaurant’s food on Instagram somehow entitled them to eat without paying as much as other customers. The fact that the food was divinely delicious didn’t stop them from giving the Italian restaurant a 1-star review online. Talk about sour grapes.
One Yelper thought that an Italian restaurant’s food was amazing, but still gave them a 1-star review
Richpacker, the Redditor who posted a redacted version of the review online, sure got the internet’s attention: more than 59,400 people upvoted the Yelper’s ridiculous rant and over 1,600 individuals commented on the post. Among the comments were plenty of similar stories about privileged and snobbish wannabe critics.
The story most likely resonated with so many people because they wanted justice for the Italian restaurant. Apparently, some ‘critics’ believe that a place serving delicious food doesn’t deserve any plaudits if they refuse to dance to their selfish tune.
Chefs and restaurateurs have different perspectives on Yelp reviewers. For example, Jay Jerrier of ‘Il Cane Rosso’ in Dallas told Eater that his biggest gripe with Yelp is that it’s a platform meant for passive-aggressive individuals: “I don’t understand why somebody can’t wait to hurry home and write an anonymous one-star Yelp review when they’re at the restaurant and they can say, “This pizza wasn’t cooked the way I wanted.”
“If we bring you a pizza and you’ve eaten one-eighth of it, we’re going to say, well, is there something wrong that you don’t like? It takes me two minutes to get you another pizza, so give me a chance to fix it,” Jerrier expressed his opinion. “When we first opened I was obsessed reading all the Yelp reviews and panicking every time somebody said something shitty. But now we’re at the point where I hardly ever look at it.”
What’s your opinion of Yelp reviewers, dear Readers? Do you think that food ‘critics’ are more entitled than before? How would you deal with entitled and pretentious critics who want to eat at a discount just because they’re ‘influential’?
When some people read the story, they shared similar tales of their own
Here’s what others had to say
Doesn't she see her mistake? If the restaurant has to pay for it, then it's no "free advertisment" anymore. I don't like entitled people like that.
This is a viral marketing stunt. You can tell from the gushing comments on the food. No one leaving a one star review would praise the restaurant in it.
I think a lot of these kinds of "stories" are the same. It's free advertising at the end of the day.
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My little kid spelled this kind of people "Influenza" and damn she's right😁
If I like a restaurant's food enough that I go on line to praise it then it's because I want the restaurant to get more customers to come in and enjoy the food so that the restaurant stays in business so I can keep going back and enjoying the food. Over time I usually build up a relationship with the staff and management that might result in the occasional free desert or drink because it's a special occasion like a birthday but I never expect it. And I tip as if the bill was full price. Restaurants are businesses that have a lot more overhead then people realize. Leaving a bad review on any platform because you didn't get your petty way just proves to everyone reading it that you are a crappy human.
Same. There have been a lot of these stories lately and it seems like this one is probably just fabricated to fit that model.
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Can someone come and get me when all the 'influencers' have gone and f****d off please? This trend is everything that's wrong with this awful, narcissistic generation, and I'm not really in the mood to hold my tongue any more!
The funny thing is, people will often look at the bad reviews first. Tell me you haven't done this with a book you want to download, a TV you're interested in, etc. You want to see what the bad ones say. So, people will read this bad review, and see "the food was awesome!!!"
Yelp would be great, if people wouldn't be such entitled a******s, actually scratch that, THE WORLD would be great....
I'm a Yelp Elite and would be embarrassed if I ever expected anything when I went anyplace. The reason people are given that "status" is because they inform the public of their experience...not to alter the experience. People like the above should just be banned... it's a biased experience.
Am I the only person that would actually make an effort to go to a restaurant that treats 'influencers' like this? I had enough of the grown a*s man taking 35 pictures of their food until its cold.....
"Influencers" are like a leech or parasite to businesses, for some reason they seem to think they are entitled to receive stuff for free. Their endorsement will not "make or break" any business that knows what they are doing, i.e. have a good product good customer service and prices people are willing to pay.
There’s a restaurant in San Diego that when you go into the bathrooms, Instead of background music they playing dramatic readings of their one star reviews on yelp. The actors doing the readings are hilarious and worth going to the bathroom just to listen to these whiny obnoxious yelp gits being mocked...
I don't know if this would help ? For the poor person at point of sale. Nod, ask for the idiots' full name, physical address, phone number, ( blood group -kidding ). Write these down with a pen and paper. Tell them you will pass it to the accountant in charge of free stuff. .... and there is a legal requirement you have to send it to the tax office as well.
I tried looking up what an "influencer" is and all I found was "entitled twat who thinks businesses operate solely for likes". Stop following these f*****g c***s and giving them free s**t.
I hate those so called "influencers". I do not want to be "influenced", I am an adult and I don't need someone that I don't know the background of telling me what is good for me of not.
I'd be more willing to go to this restaurant knowing that they treat everyone the same way than I would if someone said the place "had a bunch of good Yelp reviews"...
I do not really trust YELP reviewers much...I try it myself and decide! I will write a review on TripAdvisor. I enjoy giving reviews to help others, not to get freebies. (Would not even consider getting food for free. You will lose your integrity as a reviewer).
Im on Tripadvisor and of all the places I've been I have only given one bad review and that was given because they seemed to have gone out of their way to ignore the flooded toilets, ignore the customers completely to the point where people were wondering if they had to use the till themselves and didn't even bother preparing the food and instead stood chatting in the back of the kitchen where they were in plain sight chatting! I told the manager who said I was wrong and blocked me from replying. Every where else I've been to has been amazing!
It's too bad the restaurant wasn't more "greatful" for her obviously superb influencing skills.
Anyone can be an “influencer” - even those who have 10 followers. Social media influencers are given power by the suckers who put them on a pedestal. I don’t care what strangers say about restaurants. I’ll refer to my friends for restaurant advice, thank you very much. Or, I’ll go check out a new place on my own.
Odd. I share on Yelp and Instagram so my FOLLOWERS can find good food. I can buy my own damn food. If it's good or bad, the review will fairly reflect that. I generally only give great reviews or warning reviews like "place only takes cash".
wow...i still find it hard to believe people like this exist. "social infuencer?" wtf?! i just don't get the younger generations sometimes. where do these self-important, self-proclaimed, entitled people come from? who is raising these people?
If a business "enrolls with Yelp" (PAYS A FEE), their feedback will be "filtered." The filtered comments -- mostly from people who leave a lot of low scores or have fewer than 20 reviews -- are still viewable with a click on the right link, but they're not counted toward the overall score. The businesses listed under "You may also enjoy" are all "enrolled" businesses.
Personally I like Yelp. You have to average out the reviews IMHO. Needed a new hairdresser & there are 10 on every street corner, it's hard to navigate. I checked Yelp and found the girl of my dreams.
joke's on her, this is actually a positive review, she said the foods good loads of times in it.
So, as many other people have pointed out, this story is a bit... suspect. Generally "influencers" don't straight up say they're pissed cuz they didn't get free food, they leave it with bad service, rude staff, etc. Straight up saying the food was good but you're pissed because you didn't get anything free- I question that. Other thing is, if someone leaves a one star review on a place you want to go, check their other reviews. Some people seem to get off on leaving bad reviews. So if it's left by someone who only has 5 reviews and they're all 1 star- it's c**p. Honestly unless they have several reviews with a mix of ratings I ignore them. That and if it's a place I genuinely wanna try and it doesn't look sketchy I'll try it regardless of reviews, because so many people only leave bad ones. I try to do it either way, because SO many people only review things if they're horrible. What good does everyone only leaving one star reviews do???
My daughter has almost 10,000 followers for her mountain climbing and would NEVER think to act like this. My daughter has worked hard to get where she is on life, which is obviously not the case for that entitled brat.
Who still uses Yelp? It becomes very obvious quickly how useless Yelp is for accuracy.
This Yelper has 12 friends and has only left 26 reviews. Can't be that big of an influencer!
When she posted it there, it's actually already worth more than posted in IG with 11k followers. The restaurant won, hands down.
I used to love Yelp when it was newer and was a genuine source of genuine reviews, even found a number of "new" places in my area thanks to it. But in the last couple years it seems to have been taken over by "influencers" who think they are entitled, real restaurant reviews actually *gasp* pay for their meals, they don't want the restaurant to know who they are because they want the same treatment everyone gets. Now Yelp is so thrown off by temper tantrums that I am always suspect over the stars rating good or bad
Said it before and I'll say it again: Influencers, Yelpers, Bloggers and all those kind of idiots only exist because there are sheeple that are even dumber than the people they follow.
yeah, I hear those sheeple even comment on these stories
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I mean, this is the same site where people actually post stories about how they used to work somewhere else and now work for BP👌Maybe try tiktok for a bit? Guaranteed cute puppies.
Load More Replies... Doesn't she see her mistake? If the restaurant has to pay for it, then it's no "free advertisment" anymore. I don't like entitled people like that.
This is a viral marketing stunt. You can tell from the gushing comments on the food. No one leaving a one star review would praise the restaurant in it.
I think a lot of these kinds of "stories" are the same. It's free advertising at the end of the day.
Load More Replies... My little kid spelled this kind of people "Influenza" and damn she's right😁
If I like a restaurant's food enough that I go on line to praise it then it's because I want the restaurant to get more customers to come in and enjoy the food so that the restaurant stays in business so I can keep going back and enjoying the food. Over time I usually build up a relationship with the staff and management that might result in the occasional free desert or drink because it's a special occasion like a birthday but I never expect it. And I tip as if the bill was full price. Restaurants are businesses that have a lot more overhead then people realize. Leaving a bad review on any platform because you didn't get your petty way just proves to everyone reading it that you are a crappy human.
Same. There have been a lot of these stories lately and it seems like this one is probably just fabricated to fit that model.
Load More Replies... Can someone come and get me when all the 'influencers' have gone and f****d off please? This trend is everything that's wrong with this awful, narcissistic generation, and I'm not really in the mood to hold my tongue any more!
The funny thing is, people will often look at the bad reviews first. Tell me you haven't done this with a book you want to download, a TV you're interested in, etc. You want to see what the bad ones say. So, people will read this bad review, and see "the food was awesome!!!"
Yelp would be great, if people wouldn't be such entitled a******s, actually scratch that, THE WORLD would be great....
I'm a Yelp Elite and would be embarrassed if I ever expected anything when I went anyplace. The reason people are given that "status" is because they inform the public of their experience...not to alter the experience. People like the above should just be banned... it's a biased experience.
Am I the only person that would actually make an effort to go to a restaurant that treats 'influencers' like this? I had enough of the grown a*s man taking 35 pictures of their food until its cold.....
"Influencers" are like a leech or parasite to businesses, for some reason they seem to think they are entitled to receive stuff for free. Their endorsement will not "make or break" any business that knows what they are doing, i.e. have a good product good customer service and prices people are willing to pay.
There’s a restaurant in San Diego that when you go into the bathrooms, Instead of background music they playing dramatic readings of their one star reviews on yelp. The actors doing the readings are hilarious and worth going to the bathroom just to listen to these whiny obnoxious yelp gits being mocked...
I don't know if this would help ? For the poor person at point of sale. Nod, ask for the idiots' full name, physical address, phone number, ( blood group -kidding ). Write these down with a pen and paper. Tell them you will pass it to the accountant in charge of free stuff. .... and there is a legal requirement you have to send it to the tax office as well.
I tried looking up what an "influencer" is and all I found was "entitled twat who thinks businesses operate solely for likes". Stop following these f*****g c***s and giving them free s**t.
I hate those so called "influencers". I do not want to be "influenced", I am an adult and I don't need someone that I don't know the background of telling me what is good for me of not.
I'd be more willing to go to this restaurant knowing that they treat everyone the same way than I would if someone said the place "had a bunch of good Yelp reviews"...
I do not really trust YELP reviewers much...I try it myself and decide! I will write a review on TripAdvisor. I enjoy giving reviews to help others, not to get freebies. (Would not even consider getting food for free. You will lose your integrity as a reviewer).
Im on Tripadvisor and of all the places I've been I have only given one bad review and that was given because they seemed to have gone out of their way to ignore the flooded toilets, ignore the customers completely to the point where people were wondering if they had to use the till themselves and didn't even bother preparing the food and instead stood chatting in the back of the kitchen where they were in plain sight chatting! I told the manager who said I was wrong and blocked me from replying. Every where else I've been to has been amazing!
It's too bad the restaurant wasn't more "greatful" for her obviously superb influencing skills.
Anyone can be an “influencer” - even those who have 10 followers. Social media influencers are given power by the suckers who put them on a pedestal. I don’t care what strangers say about restaurants. I’ll refer to my friends for restaurant advice, thank you very much. Or, I’ll go check out a new place on my own.
Odd. I share on Yelp and Instagram so my FOLLOWERS can find good food. I can buy my own damn food. If it's good or bad, the review will fairly reflect that. I generally only give great reviews or warning reviews like "place only takes cash".
wow...i still find it hard to believe people like this exist. "social infuencer?" wtf?! i just don't get the younger generations sometimes. where do these self-important, self-proclaimed, entitled people come from? who is raising these people?
If a business "enrolls with Yelp" (PAYS A FEE), their feedback will be "filtered." The filtered comments -- mostly from people who leave a lot of low scores or have fewer than 20 reviews -- are still viewable with a click on the right link, but they're not counted toward the overall score. The businesses listed under "You may also enjoy" are all "enrolled" businesses.
Personally I like Yelp. You have to average out the reviews IMHO. Needed a new hairdresser & there are 10 on every street corner, it's hard to navigate. I checked Yelp and found the girl of my dreams.
joke's on her, this is actually a positive review, she said the foods good loads of times in it.
So, as many other people have pointed out, this story is a bit... suspect. Generally "influencers" don't straight up say they're pissed cuz they didn't get free food, they leave it with bad service, rude staff, etc. Straight up saying the food was good but you're pissed because you didn't get anything free- I question that. Other thing is, if someone leaves a one star review on a place you want to go, check their other reviews. Some people seem to get off on leaving bad reviews. So if it's left by someone who only has 5 reviews and they're all 1 star- it's c**p. Honestly unless they have several reviews with a mix of ratings I ignore them. That and if it's a place I genuinely wanna try and it doesn't look sketchy I'll try it regardless of reviews, because so many people only leave bad ones. I try to do it either way, because SO many people only review things if they're horrible. What good does everyone only leaving one star reviews do???
My daughter has almost 10,000 followers for her mountain climbing and would NEVER think to act like this. My daughter has worked hard to get where she is on life, which is obviously not the case for that entitled brat.
Who still uses Yelp? It becomes very obvious quickly how useless Yelp is for accuracy.
This Yelper has 12 friends and has only left 26 reviews. Can't be that big of an influencer!
When she posted it there, it's actually already worth more than posted in IG with 11k followers. The restaurant won, hands down.
I used to love Yelp when it was newer and was a genuine source of genuine reviews, even found a number of "new" places in my area thanks to it. But in the last couple years it seems to have been taken over by "influencers" who think they are entitled, real restaurant reviews actually *gasp* pay for their meals, they don't want the restaurant to know who they are because they want the same treatment everyone gets. Now Yelp is so thrown off by temper tantrums that I am always suspect over the stars rating good or bad
Said it before and I'll say it again: Influencers, Yelpers, Bloggers and all those kind of idiots only exist because there are sheeple that are even dumber than the people they follow.
yeah, I hear those sheeple even comment on these stories
Load More Replies... I mean, this is the same site where people actually post stories about how they used to work somewhere else and now work for BP👌Maybe try tiktok for a bit? Guaranteed cute puppies.
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