An Entitled Couple Tried to Blackmail My Café with Bad Reviews – I Taught Them a Lesson About Responsibility

Behind me, the boyfriend said, not quietly, “Guess some people don’t get how this works.”

I stopped and turned back. “We’re happy to have you as customers, but we don’t do that here.”

They finished their food and took more photos.

I thought they’d leave, maybe grumble to their followers about how some small café didn’t appreciate their generous offer, and we’d never see them again.

What actually happened was far worse.

Two hours later, the review went up: Disgusting food. Rude owner.

Wouldn’t recommend.

By morning, there were five more.

They were all from accounts I’d never seen before, accounts with no profile pictures, no previous reviews, nothing.

Just a series of one-star ratings and variations on the same theme: terrible service, overpriced, avoid at all costs.

But that wasn’t the worst of it.

That’s when Jeff called.

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