{"id":13270,"date":"2024-07-14T10:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13270"},"modified":"2024-07-14T10:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:17:23","slug":"restaurant-owner-absolutely-shuts-down-two-influencers-for-asking-for-free-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=13270","title":{"rendered":"Restaurant owner absolutely shuts down two influencers for asking for free meals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A restaurant owner had the most hillariously brutal put down for an influencer who hoped for a collab<\/h2>\n

A restaurant owner had enough of influencers hoping to score a free meal and gave two of them a piece of his mind in a lengthy response.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You might think promotion by an influencer would be a dream for restaurant owners, especially if it only costs them a free meal for one or two people.<\/p>\n

Well, you’d be wrong if this\u00a0Australian<\/a>\u00a0restaurant owner\u2019s response is anything to go by.<\/p>\n

In fact, this owner\u2019s response might put any and all influencers ever trying to score a free dining experience in exchange for some positive online promotion.<\/p>\n

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The Australian restaurant owner decided he wasn\u2019t going to let the invite to \u2018colab\u2019 slide.(Getty Stock Image)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Elle Groves, who runs the Two Teaspoons account with her friend Annie Knight, messaged an unnamed restaurant to see if she could dine in for free.<\/p>\n

For the meal she promised to post a glowing review of the spot on her\u00a0social media<\/a>\u00a0pages.<\/p>\n

However Groves and Knight have amassed 7,000 followers, so not exactly the biggest of online followings. The restaurant they were hoping to ‘promote’ has a whopping 23,500 followers on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, so they might be helping them more than the other way around.<\/p>\n

Screenshots of the heated exchanges were uploaded by Australian\u00a0food<\/a>\u00a0writer John Lethlean back in 2022.<\/p>\n