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Posted on 08/01/2025 6:38:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The owners of a popular New Orleans 7th Ward restaurant are speaking on social media after a woman from New York claiming to be an influencer racked up a near $300 bill, refused to pay and left a 2-star Google review.
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Diane Kronstad wrote two reviews critiquing Louisiana businesses on Tuesday.
One review alleged that a crawfish company's seafood smelled bad after it was shipped. The other was to complain about her experience at Pulcinella, 1300 St. Bernard Ave., that is owned by Andrew Principe and Bella Blue. The duo also owns Original Nite Cap bar upstairs.
Kronstad said the restaurant lacked charm, the food was average for its price and called its location "sketchy."
Principe responded to the review with a lengthy message that revealed that he filed a police report alleging the business was out $290 after Kronstad refused to pay for her tab that included eight alcoholic beverages, seven food items, two desserts and a liter of Pellegrino.
In an Instagram video shared with her followers, Blue revealed text messages that showed she confirmed with Kronstad before the visit that the restaurant would not be giving away any free items.
Blue said that Kronstad first contacted the restaurant and offered to do a review of the restaurant and several social media posts.
On multiple platforms, Kronstad used the username Fashions Digest, which is also the name of her blog. Through her blog, she has posted four restaurant reviews in the New York area.
Blue explained that she hadn't had much experience with influencer culture before as a new business owner and thought it might be a good idea.
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Just FYI thank God for Yelp and Google reviews. They hold so many businesses accountable including hospitals.
The restaurant is right for making an issue of someone skipping out on a $300 bill especially, when she had that much to drink.
If you can discern the true reviews from the fake ones ... Good luck on that ... And yelp is a scam ...
Sure, cause nobody would think of lying and leaving a bad review as retaliation, right?
This whole notion of “influencers” needs to die a horrible death as quickly as possible.
Competitors do it all the time ...
The restaurant owner should be explicitly calling this “theft” in her posts and name the influencer AND the blog they operate.
yes. agreed. overall though I’d take a few flake drama queen false reviews for the genuine, substantive ones that force a business (or doctor or other entity, even church! to shape up.)
really solid businesses stick out with the consistency of positive feedback.
This is Pulcinella’s review page for reference.
Quite stellar.
A fake drama queen rant will stick out like a sore thumb and make itself obvious.
Sounds more like a protection racket. “Comp me or you get a bad review”
What’s nice about these platforms too, is that owners can respond, call BS out, or even make amends. “Please give our pizza another chance with discount.”
“Please contact about so and so directly about your ER experience.”
What’s nice about these platforms too, is that owners can respond, call BS out, or even make amends. “We’re sorry your pizza arrived burnt. Please give our pizza another chance with discount.”
“Please contact about so and so directly about your ER experience.”
Principe responded to the review with a lengthy message that revealed that he filed a police report alleging the business was out $290 after Kronstad refused to pay for her tab that included eight alcoholic beverages, seven food items, two desserts and a liter of Pellegrino.
If it was that bad, why didn't she address it right from the get go instead of racking up a bill with that much food and then screwing them? Even if the restaurant was that bad, if you stuff yourself like that, PAY FOR IT. Leaving the bad review isn't the issue. It is skipping out on the bill after staying so long and continuing to buy from them.
She essentially stole from the restaurant because she didn’t think it was good enough for her.
Should have prefaced my appreciation for public reviews with “as a sidenote”
It’s good that the platforms allow *owners to respond.* Sometimes, they amends when the grievance is legitimate. (Which in the above article, wasn’t the case.)
Certain companies will make amends (like your delivery was missing part of the order. Starbucks will even reimburse you if a drive-thru order was messed up and you couldn’t go back to get it remade.) They keep track so they know if you’re abusing the system.
When more than one review from the same location and same time report food poisoning. You know that’s a red flag — especially seeing as you can see the review histories of the users.
The sad thing is when inexperience or total incompetence actually leads to harm in emergency situations. Like “my relative in a wheelchair was forced into wrong room because receptionist misstated policy” or “my small dog was severely injured by pitbull due to negligence at so and so kennel.”
“Influencers” is just another name for professional parasites.
I pretty much use the Olympics gymnastics scoring philosophy. Throw out the top scores and the bottom scores and see what is in the middle though I do look for patterns especially in the negative reviews.
She’s also a jazz singer. She isn’t bad, but her phrasing isn’t great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1akgve6pKYE
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