Ghosted restaurants

This was thankfully debunked as fake

Edit; I looked for the post, I couldn't find it, IM SORRY. There was evidence that she made it up for clout but I don't remember anything more than that.

So it doesn't actually work well when you say that the claim without source was debunked... And you also don't provide source.
Whatchoo talking about, bro?
- It's a fucking meme, of course it doesn't have a source. No one in their right mind would trust this as fact anyway.
- I looked for the post, I couldn't find it but there was evidence that she made it up for clout
Damn that restaurant has every angle of this thing figured out
I've seen others saying it's legit.
Also would be pretty hard to substantiate or debunk definitively.
Concrete evidence would be, say, the tiktoker in question being caught out or admitting it was fabricated.
I'll show you my source if you show me yours.
Dang so it’s advertising that this is an untapped idea
Hire the VAs (Virtual Assistants) now to start ghostkitching (catfishing)! Great return on investment 😬
- To be fair, it's also fraud.

Name of the restaurant should have been included somewhere.

Yeah. I'm curious where this article was posted. It's sounds like clickbait. How would she even figure that out?

This seems suspect.

The woman in question is a tiktok 'influencer' who has the most amazing things hapoen to her - always wiithout evidence.

I think it's just as likely that she's lying to get views and subscribers,

What a sad loser

Well that's a great way to have a customer come exactly once to your place and order something small and cheap and then never return out of bad memories and embarrassment. It's also a great way to make a name as "that restaurant where you'll get ghosted" for yourself. For real, either the place would get a bad rep as a cursed place, or (more likely) they lose valuable potential customers because they will never go back to a place where they have been stood up.

You'd almost be saying the restaurant is haunted with the amount of ghosting that happens.

The original creator of the video never named the restaurant and also has since deleted the video. I can't find any explanation or followup from her, so this is likely a fake story.

This was already debunked awhile ago. it's bullshit. no restaurant, regardless of how poorly they're doing, is going to go through all this work to maybe, just mabye, get $50 out of them.

If it were true, you might buy there once, but it will always leave a bitter taste. So not sure if it would be good advertising if you never go there again.
I also definitely would not eat there. I don’t know why it’s assumed that you would eat dinner there after being stood up. I’d be sad and I’d want to be alone, at absolute most I’d get takeout, but there’s probably a greasier takeout that I want, but have been restraining myself from. I’d very much prefer tacos/falafel to a date restaurant meal if I’ve just been stood up.
Also, once the media gets ahold of the story, your business is sunk.
I wonder if it's really that much work. Especially if they're cat fishing dudes mostly.

Spoken like someone who isn't afraid of potential dates. Lol.
No way I'm meeting privately on a first date with someone I don't know. I'd rather be stood up in the restaurant.
- You can just meet outside the restaurant.
  You just don’t go in before you meet them outside the front door.
  Hell, it can even be a chivalry test to see if he holds the door for you.
Genuine question - do people seriously have dates in restaurants? I'm 32 and never have I ever been asked on a date in a restaurant. Cafe, sure. But a full on meal with a person? I literally don't know anyone who went on a first/early date in a restaurant. I assumed that's a 90s thing that was nowadays only taking place in movies and sitcoms.
- I’m your age and I’ve done it several times, including with my husband.
  The caveat is that you start with coffee or a drink (my husband and I arranged to play mtg and have a beer), then the conversation is so nice that you order food or move from a cafe to a restaurant.
  Now that I think about it, all the good relationships I’ve been in that weren’t with friends of mine involved dinner tacked onto the first date. When I’ve dated friends, it’s a very different progression, but doesn’t really involve restaurant dates at the beginning.
They usually have a spot by the entrance set aside for waiting for the rest of your group.
Once I went on a date with someone, we were both perfectly reasonable and polite, and we both felt zero chemistry midway through the date and ended it early. It was the best terrible date I've ever had.

This is really turning up the “companies/corporations are people” shit to 11.

It really says a lot about lemmites that they are treating this as a real thing.

IMHO it says more about humans and social media. People on Facebook and Reddit will believe much more far-fetched stories.
I don't actually think there's a ministry of silly walks. While this piece probably didn't start out as satire it effectively tickles the same bones.
I feel like in this case just say lemmings lol

This seems like it is illegal... If it isn't now, it certainly will be as soon as it happens to a politician.

IIRC, this was completely made up.
You could probably ding them for fraud, but as others have said, this is fake.

Whole new meaning to Ghost Kitchen

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

NY Post Article about the vague claims alleged

Picturing an uber "gig economy" job where you're paid to engage on carrying apps, meet at the restaurant and sneak out the bathroom for this same effect on the remaining person. 24 hours later they are then prompted by notification to review and tip.

Probably a free dating app too. Just another reminder, you are the product.

That's horrible!

There's an episode of Catfish that has this. A lady is setting people up to eat at her restaurant lmao

https://www.boredpanda.com/restaurant-catfished-dating-app/

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This is fake but it makes me wonder if someone has used a fake profile (that is set up to be more appealing than they actually are) so they could "swoop in" by pretending to notice they were "stood up".