Participating in the dating scene is already hard enough. And still, businesses keep finding ways to make it even worse.
For instance, this restaurant came up with a catfishing scheme to get people to come to eat at their establishments, which many people fell for. Now they are starting to talk about it on the internet. And we all know that when the internet is infuriated, it’s not good news for the target of it.
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“I was just stood up on a date and it was the most humiliating experience ever. Storytime!”
“Met this guy on a dating app. And he immediately asked me out on a date to a specific restaurant. He confirmed day off. I get to the restaurant and see that he’s nowhere to be found. So, I reached out, no response.”
“I checked the app and noticed that he unmatched me.”
“At that point, I was a little confused, and I was kind of pissed because I was already dressed and I got all the way there. And because I had put in so much effort, I thought I might as well just have a meal, while I am in the building.”
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“And it wasn’t until I got home and I was scrolling Facebook and I saw a very similar story from a girl, that same restaurant, who also got stood up”
“She found out that there are restaurants now posing as people on dating apps, just so you go to their business. And once you get stood up, they know that probably 9 times out of 10 you’re going to buy something from them.”
“And that just blew my mind. The fact that we have stooped this low…”
“Sirens – jail time, jail for all the people at the restaurant thinking they’re marketing geniuses”
“You are not, no girl boss town, you are just ruining a girl’s mental self-esteem. I can’t even believe, I’m gonna insert the screenshots below so you can see, but what a wild ride, right?”
Watch the video here
In the video, Taylor told a story about how a restaurant orchestrated a fake date to get her to their establishment. She also said that she read a story about another woman falling victim to the same trick. And we found out that there are even more victims of this trick out there.
The restaurants that take part in this scam are called food diggers. It is a pun on the phrase “gold digger.” These establishmentstend to partner with bot apps. And these partnerships let them create bots on dating apps to lure people to their restaurants. There people, just like Taylor, get stood up, and so, order food on their own. Essentially, the restaurants are exploiting people who are looking for love and/or fun.
But today’s topic is not about them. It is about food-digging restaurants that lure people with catfishing tactics.
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Netizens first heard about the restaurant food-digging phenomenon when people from India started posting online that it was happening in their country. And the number of people who shared that they were victims of this scheme started to grow. Just think about how many more people were scammed and either didn’t realize it or didn’t share online!
Due to these restaurants’ scammy tactics, some peopleworrythat dating apps are no longer a good place to meet people. Being stood up on a date can damage a person’s self-esteem, as it feels humiliating. There’s always a risk of meeting a shady person from a dating app, but now there’s also a risk of becoming a victim of a restaurant scheme. And when there are too many risks, the desire to use the app might notably decline.
Folks online were terrified of the restaurant’s new scheme and demanded to know the name of it, so they could avoid it
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