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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yokonzo@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world
 
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[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 157 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The meme itself is not even a source.

Like, me saying I had lunch with sasquatch is not something someone needs to rigorously debunk.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I mean I get what you're saying but... One is a hairy apeman people claim to see in the woods, the other is companies doing something unethical and shady to improve their bottom line which there is absolutely precedent for.

Yeah it's unlikely this story is real but your analogy makes no sense

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A restaurant stole my wallet once. Prove me wrong.

[–] Lautaro@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago
[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I once had a train run on me by JP Morgan, Goldman and Sachs, and Blackrock.

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[–] frostysauce@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 2 years ago

Damn that restaurant has every angle of this thing figured out

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[–] Aremel@lemmy.world 105 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Name of the restaurant should have been included somewhere.

[–] TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 66 points 2 years ago

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

[–] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 81 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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,

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, if a place did that to me, arson would be in their future...

I'd march on in there, and put my arse on everything I could, until everyone knew they were that restaurant where that guy put his arson everything.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 40 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That’s called fraud, and it violates consent, and it’s therefore not a free market activity, which makes it more of a breakdown of capitalism than the thing itself.

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Hey its called catfishing and for some of us it's the only way we can get a date...

Signed - definitely not a restaurant totally super hunky dream guy

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[–] jlou@mastodon.social 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Capitalism doesn't qualify as free market activity then. Capitalism inherently involves treating persons as things. In the firm, the workers are jointly de facto responsible (DFR) for production, but the employer gets sole legal responsibility for the positive and negative results of production. This violates the principle of legal and de facto responsibility matching. DFR isn't de facto transferred, but legal responsibility is. Morally, this is an institutional fraud
@memes

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[–] match@pawb.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I do believe we have different definitions of capitalism

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[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

[–] tweeks@feddit.nl 11 points 2 years ago

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.

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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How long till it'll be automated by AI to increase efficiency?

I hate this timeline.

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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 18 points 2 years ago

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

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

IMHO it says more about humans and social media. People on Facebook and Reddit will believe much more far-fetched stories.

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

IIRC, this was completely made up.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

You could probably ding them for fraud, but as others have said, this is fake.

[–] FarFarAway@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

Whole new meaning to Ghost Kitchen

[–] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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