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Georgia Restaurant Drops Hype Ball After Influencer Makes Them Viral, ‘They Lost the Customers on Their Own’

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Nat CollazoBy Nat Collazo2 Mins Read
Georgia Restaurant Drops Hype Ball After Influencer Makes Them Viral, 'They Lost the Customers on Their Own'
Image Source: undisclosedpotential24 on TikTok via The Nerd Stash

Regardless of the kind of notoriety you gain online, there’s always a price to pay for having a viral video or moment. In one such scenario, a TikTok food influencer reviewed a place in Georgia, helping it build up even more business than ever before. Unfortunately, the fame and popularity got to the heads of the restaurant owners, and things have only gone downhill with reports of more expensive meals and smaller portions. Now, the place is an empty graveyard of what used to be one person’s favorite place to eat.

@undisclosedpotential24

I’ve loved this place for the past four years. I can only pray that this place gets the support that they deserve 🩷🌮 #keithlee #locallyowned #birriatacos ⚠️EDIT⚠️ Wow. So many of you have cviewed and engaged with a post that was meant to be harmless. I can now see, and understand why most of yall think that I posted this with the intention of bashing, shaming, or degrading @Keith Lee name. By no means was any of this supposed to blow up and be taken way out of proportion. It was never meant to come off as blaming him. It was simply my personal observation of a change in the low volume to high volume in results to a social media food critic reviewing their store. It’s sad to see the drop in high volume after the hype was over. Whether it’s because of prices and portions, or mismanagement by the owners. Still sad to watch this happen as a long time customer who loved their food. A lot of yall have accused me of being g family to, or the owners themselves posing as a fake to gain attention. This is false. I have never met or had conversation with these people outside of ordering tacos. I hope this gives a better and more thorough explanation and understanding to my post. No harm or blame was intended here. Thank you for reading -CW

♬ original sound – Keith Lee

TikTok restaurant and food critic Keith Lee has been famous for both destroying businesses and lifting them up higher than I’m sure they ever thought possible. In fact, he’s so popular that his online persona was used in one of Saturday Night Live’s TikTok influencer skits posted to their profiles last year. Despite being well-loved in various food circles, he is also hated by others in the same social spaces.

A TikTok user mentioned that one of his favorite restaurants, Tacos y Mariscos in Bonaire, Georgia, experienced a significant increase in orders and visits after one of Keith Lee’s videos went viral. However, shortly after this surge, the restaurant faced a drastic decline in orders, and now, according to the video, customers rarely visit. Commenters were quick to correct the original poster of the above video, noting that the restaurant’s significant decline in customers is very much their fault, saying, “Keith Lee brought people in, they lost the customers on their own when they raised prices and made portions smaller.”

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After doing a little bit of digging, that’s exactly what had happened. Other commenters defend this, with another saying, “Yea, cause the food was bomb FOR THE PRICE. But then they saw they were getting customers and decided to get greedy and hike prices up. THEY fumbled their bag, nobody else. Hope that helps.” Unfortunately, that truly is the power of social media: it can cause people to be their own worst enemy. Hopefully, Tacos y Mariscos will be able to drum up more business as a result of this new viral video, though I’m worried that it will cause another backlash.

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