‘You’re the Rudest Customers I’ve Ever Met’ : Entitled Influencers Served $700 Worth of Free Food, Leave $5 Tip for Server, Adding Insult to Injury

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    Font - r/r/Tales From YourServer. Posted by u/freyjas_cats 13 hours ago Have you had an experience with an influencer yet? Medium Just this weekend we had an influencer and her partner come into our diner, hoping to order everything off of the menu to take photos to post while they
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    Font - stayed in our vintage motel just next door. They made the correct choice (for them) to speak to our owner's wife, who is a nice enough woman, but social media is EVERYTHING to her, and a free promo for her husband's business made her way too excited. She doesn't sign our checks nor is she in charge of
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    Font - any payroll situation, and is pretty much always just giving away food for free at her husband's expense. If she says "oh, they're on my tab" that doesn't mean she whips out her own credit card to pay for her and her friends, she just doesn't pay at all.
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    Font - She forced one of us (always ends up being me) to wait on the influencers, who were quite rude and uncaring. They snapped at me, then complained about the sun and wind like I was fi ing Storm or something. They ordered literally every single item on
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    Font - our menu, and spent about an hour taking staged photos of it all. Afterwards, they asked me for boxes, because they weren't actually going to eat any of it, they just wanted pics before they shoved it all in their fridge.
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    Font - I was honestly baffled and to top it all off, the owner's wife didn't make them pay for a single cent of it and told them just to tip their server. So they were served about $700 worth of food and drinks for FREE and left me $5. I literally thought about lunging at the owner's wife and choking her out like Bart Simpson. Never serving influencers again.
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    Font - magiccitybhm - 13 hr. ago It's a wonder they stay in business with the owner's wife giving away so much. Wow. $700 in food for free. I wonder if she ever saw a single social media post from those two. Reply Share 488
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    Font - freyjas_cats OP. 13 hr. ago She did and reposted the s of them. It was mostly just Instagram reels, and since she controls all social media accounts for our business, she does whatever she wants. Our owner is just a golden retriever in a 42 year out
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    Font - old man's body, and she really take advantage of how nice he is, because he'd rather have her happy then have her flip shit on him. I still don't know how we stay in business either sometimes with how many handouts there are.
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    Font - MissSara13 9 hr. ago She should have to wait on Influencers. That might change her perspective a little! Reply Share 65
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    Font - OhMerseyme - 9 hr. ago I would go on the "Influencers" page and provide my experience with them if I were you. Although they will probably delete your post. 96 Reply Share
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    Font - greasyhorror 8 hr. ago reels are what boosts you in the algorithm. ever since TikTok this is unfortunately what Instagram does. My partners business uses Instagram to advertise and reels have been the bane of our existence ↑ 19 Reply Share
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    Font - Dr_StrangeloveGA - 11 hr. ago Never been a server, but it seems that the owner's wife should have waited this table if she wanted to comp everything. At the very least she should have tossed you a hundy if it's for "free advertising" and you'll get your sl when you get it. 474 Reply Share
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    Font - mmmmpisghetti - 12 hr. ago They just cost OP money too. A tipping customer wasn't in OPS section because those clowns were at that table. Hell if I were going to eat I would have asked for a table away from that mess. Reply Share 134
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    Font - Personal_Telephone_16 hr. ago I would 100% suggest talking to the actual owner to get compensated for this. This seems like upscae to fine dining, to just casually comp a $700 tab for publicity. Call them out on Tiktok. I really want to know what t influencer is tipping $5. For this much free food, I think $200-350 minimum gratuity would suffice. 20 Reply Share
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    Font - MyTVC_16-12 hr. ago If you assume the influencer will actually bring customers in, do you want the kind of customers who actually care what an influencer does? Yuck. 48 Reply Share
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    Font - Key_Juggernaut_1430 - 13 hr. ago OP - When you are told "oh, they're on my tab" - you need to inform owner's wife that your tip is on her tab too, but you DON'T accept "exposure" for your tips. Reply Share 59
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    Font - Tall_Tyrion68. 8 hr. ago Influencers seem kinda like the dot com bubble back in the 90s. While some websites were obviously based on sound business models, many were not, but people threw money at anyone with a domain name on the assumption that it would make a pile of money for them. Some panned out, but a lot didn't.

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