Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Assignment 4: Food reviewers fired after scathing article on hipster café

Fabrication is the action or process of manufacturing or inventing something in other words it is a lie. We have all told little lies from time to time but it becomes more disturbing when it comes from a “trusted” news source. That’s why I decided to look into an article about a little restaurant called the West End Deli.
The story starts off with a bad review from Kelly Ramsay and Chloe James, former contestants on Australian reality television show My Kitchen Rules and food reviewers for The Sunday Times magazine STM, in Western Australia. These two ladies were apparently having “twitter beef” with the owner of West End Deli months before they decided to review their food. You 
In the review they stated, “Poorly executed flavors, soggy cheese, and overripe watermelon and under ripe tomatoes were amongst the criticisms in the review. Ramsay said she left a large quantity of food on her plate due to the poor quality”.


Come to find out majority of the review was trash. Why you ask? Well a list of these reasons can be found in a response letter that the restaurant posted on Facebook to everyone. Firstly the review was done by both women but both women didn’t attend the restaurant only one did and that was Ramsey with her fiancé. She added in her review that she left her plate almost full but that wasn’t the case the restaurant owner stated that their plates were basically licked clean.
Second the hipster restaurant only uses produce that is in season so some of the items that she mentioned in her review couldn’t have possibly been on her plate at that time. So she didn’t actually reflect their menu at the time.
Thirdly, after cleaning their plates and getting the bill Ramsey handed over her credit card but of course it was declined. She left with promises to come back the next day to pay it which she never did. The owner called her over a two month span until she finally (not happily) pay the $260 bill.

So, even after ditching on the bill the ladies still decided to give the restaurant a bad review it was obvious that this woman was looking to get a free meal for her and her man but when it didn’t come out her way she tried to fire back by trashing this restaurants name but all it did was backfire on them with the loss of their jobs.
http://mashable.com/2016/02/24/restaurant-reviewers-fired/#Ljy26ugX.Oq6 

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