My post included: a screenshot of our reservation confirmation with time stamps. A photo of our dinner. A receipt that showed we had been charged the wrong duck price and that the restaurant had tried to overcharge us eight dollars. A photograph of Terrence's ring on the table. A one-paragraph description of Brandt's behavior — the delays, the eye rolls, the confit. And a final paragraph that said: "I tipped zero. I wrote on the receipt exactly why. The restaurant chose to post my receipt online to shame me. They did not include the forty-five-minute wait for drinks, the wrong entrée they tried to charge
us double for, or the eye rolls when two men ordered dessert. They framed me as a customer abusing a worker. I am framing their response as what it is: a restaurant picking their ideology over the lived experience of their customers. The tip is a thank you for service received. I was not given service. I was given disdain. And no — I will not fund it." I had one thousand followers at the time. By Sunday night, I had forty-seven thousand. My post had thirty-two thousand likes. Pescara had, by Monday morning, deleted their original post. Delia had stopped responding to press inquiries. On Tuesday afternoon, Brandt was fired.