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?
  
  The meme itself is not even a source.
  Like, me saying I had lunch with sasquatch is not something someone needs to rigorously debunk.
  
  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
  
  Most TikTokers are.

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.
- 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.
- 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.

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.
- 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
  
  Hey super hunky dream guy! You said we should meet for lunch, what was that restaurant you mentioned?
- 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
  
  Capitalism inherently involves treating persons as things
  In what sense, that other economic systems don’t?
  This violates the principle of legal and de facto responsibility matching.
  Not sure what such a principle would mean.
  The different levels of involvement in an enterprise reflect the fact that each person is free to enter a variety of types of economic cooperation. When people get choice, diversity of behavior is the result.
  What you’re seeing in different people having different levels of risk taking, responsibility, involvement, is evidence that those people entered the contract willingly.
- I do believe we have different definitions of capitalism
  
  From wikipedia:
  Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit
  Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, self-interest, economic freedom, meritocracy, work ethic, consumer sovereignty, profit motive, meritocracy, entrepreneurship, commodification, voluntary exchange, wage laborand the production of commodities.
  (emphasis mine)
  What definition are you using?
- I mean, capitalism seeks monopolies, so capitalism inherently undermines itself
- Good luck using them though.

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.
- 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.
- 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.

Man, I saw a guy once getting stood up and I was really sad. The guy was seated, waited, asked for something small, waited more, changed tables to free space for a larger group and then paid and left. I mean, everyone here probably went on dates that got nowhere. Finish the meal, shake hands and leave separate. It’s part of life. But the golden rule is never go into the restaurant alone. Always meet outside l, somewhere else.
- 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.
  
  I’d say, do coffee. Cheaper, and easier to leave when any party decides the date is over.
  
  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.
  
  What do you mean privately? I said do get into the restaurant. Meet at a mall, on a bench, in front of a store. If they appear, good, have a 5 minutes conversation and go to the restaurant.
  I’m from the time of mIRC, where I met a few girls, including the one who has been my wife for the past 22 years.
- 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 did. Restaurants, movies, parks… I don’t recommend movies. We met, got to the theatre, watched the movie, but we didn’t actually talk, because, well, movie. How do you call that big sidewalk alongside a beach? That was awesome. Long walk just talking and listening.
  
  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.

How long till it'll be automated by AI to increase efficiency?
I hate this timeline.
- I know you wanna believe the world is shit, but try to remember that this probably isn't even real. Don't get lost in your social media feed. Don't take curated content as a representative sample of reality. Worst case scenario, someone crafted a story... which is a story older than our timelines themselves.

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

Whole new meaning to Ghost Kitchen

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.

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.

Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

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/

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".

Leave Jesus out of this. He's busy cleaning my pool