Food Influencer Tries to Sabotage Business, Gets Called Out
“What Type of Influencer Is That” — Food Blogger Gets Slammed Online After Sabotage Attempt
"Just go to the small business, pay, film a video and support!!!!!"
By Mustafa GatollariMar. 18 2024, Published 8:25 a.m. ET
"Foodies in the LA Bay area, I hope you never act like this L.A. foodie...ever in your life...please don't do this," Andrew Eats in SF (@andreweatsinsf) a California-based TikToker urges his audience in a contemporary viral clip he posted to his account.
He superimposes himself on a green-screen of a textual content conversation between the L.A. foodie in question, named Tiff, and an area industry.
So what did the trade say that brought about the L.A. Foodie to write: "May your business never succeed And may you close down" you ask? Andrew explains in his video delineating the location.
He said that the trade in question, 626 Hospitality, which provides ice cream to other restaurants and has their own shop, posted about their interplay with a food blogger / Influencer who was once thinking about partnering up with them.
Andrew said that while the woman's message did seem somewhat at the "impersonal" side for his tastes, as he, himself, would've almost definitely been a little bit bit more detailed in achieving out to a food industry to see in the event that they wanted to collaborate, that there was once in the long run nothing unsuitable with that first ping.
PSA to all foodies: Be type y’all and don’t want sick intent on small businesses or go away damaging reviews because they cant respond rapid enough to collab. But anyway plwase beef up 626 Hospitality Group in Arcadia (30 min east of downtown LA) ☺️❤️. I’m saving this for subsequent time. Smh @Tiff ♡ LA Food and Lifestyle 😔 📍160 E Duarte Rd STE E, Arcadia, CA 91006 #lafoodie #sffoodie
♬ original sound - Andrew Eats in SF Source: TikTok | @andreweatsinsf626 Hospitality spoke back to the food blogger, Tiff, thanking them for the reach out and asking if she could succeed in back out to them in 2 weeks as they have been busy making ready for their "soft opening" and that the company could be in a better place to "give [their] conversation" a couple of imaginable collaboration "the attention it deserves."
Again, Andrew says that this sort of response is par the route in an Influencer-restaurant-collaboration-dynamic as companies regularly have so much occurring and feature to prioritize accordingly.
He seems to think that Tiff made a mistake, alternatively, for not responding to the business until January (she at the beginning messaged on October 29th) so as a substitute of hitting them up in the middle of November, she pinged them several weeks after that.
The follow-up message Tiff despatched them coincided at any other rough time for the industry: the primary time they have been within the technique of dealing with a cushy opening, a rep from 626 Hospitality advised her. The 2d time, there used to be a family emergency they had to generally tend to, which they explained to Tiff in a follow-up message.
Upon explaining the situation to Tiff and then declining her offer to collaborate, the L.A. Food Blogger principally informed them to move and kick rocks and needed that their industry would fail, even after listening to that they were in the middle of still "dealing" with a family emergency.
"That's just cruel," he stated, urging any individual else who's within the food running a blog industry to never behave the way that Tiff did in her dialog with 626 Hospitality. "It will come back to you. As a Google reviewer for 7 years you are never allowed to leave a review for a business you actually haven't been to as a customer," he provides.
The reason why Andrew brings that up is as a result of it kind of feels that Tiff went to 626 Hospitality's web page to malign their trade, echoing one of the identical messaging she penned to them in her DMs, telling folks to never give them their money and mentioning that she does not need the place to prevail as a result of they dared to decline her be offering for collaboration.
Andrew went on to say that ethically she still should not go away a assessment if she received any form of comped meal or cost for her services and products: "She still cannot leave a review for a business because if anything is comped, if she's paid, you know doesn't really matter either or, it's considered inauthentic for Google and Yelp, so for all the foodies out there, never leave a review."
His video then transitions to a screenshot Yelp overview that Tiff left on the business' page as well, which he says used to be summarily taken down, "Thank you Yelp community managers," he says into the camera.
In what looks like a response to being called out through the trade on social media for her behavior, Andrew issues out that Tiff has deactivated her social media accounts, except for her TikTok.
"All in all y'all, if you're a foodie, content creator, anywhere in the world please treat these small businesses with respect and with you know, flexibility. Because things can happen, it's happened to me a lot, where I message a restaurant, and actually don't get to come for another couple months because of like events, family stuff, whatever," he says against the top of the video prior to appearing off the kind of merchandise 626 Hospitality Group serves up to its consumers.
Several TikTokers who replied to his video applauded 626 Hospitality for keeping its reaction to Tiff "classy" while others lambasted the food blogger for "toxic" conduct.
Others stated that they knew the owners of 626 personally and said they have been "the sweetest."
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