Most Food Influencers Aren't in Hot Water
Recently, your timeline might have been peppered with news stories about food influencers behaving badly. Most dramatically, a woman was arrested in Brooklyn for serial dining and dashing, after she refused to pay for luxurious meals around the Williamsburg neighborhood because she said she was reviewing them on Instagram. And a Phoenix-area bakery owner in October found herself in a public back-and-forth with a woman who had given her pastries a bad review after the bakery declined to comp her food.
These cases might have some restaurants feeling wary and normal diners who expect to pay their own...