I don’t know whether this story is real or not, but I’ve worked for several restaurant owners who would absolutely do this. They would not only do it, they would brag non-stop to anyone who would listen about how clever they were to come up with the idea. There are unfortunately a lot of business owners out there for whom the only thing they like more than making money is making money by directly screwing someone over. It’s the only thing that makes them feel smart. I’ve had the misfortune of working for a few of them.
If this isn’t a thing now, I guarantee someone is going to try it.
The article draws most of its facts from a tiktok video of a person saying they found X, discovered Y, heard Z from Facebook.
The link that says “businesses team up with bots” links to a tiktok video.
They reinforce the idea that people figured this out because people said it was happening in India, on Facebook.
I wonder if there’s any smoking guns?
Also just a fucking disgusting UX. Gross website.
They quoted someone with over 20k followers and 5M likes on TikTok, those are some serious bona fides.
People must be smoking something else if they think that restaurants would waste their time doing something so stupid.
I don’t know whether this story is real or not, but I’ve worked for several restaurant owners who would absolutely do this. They would not only do it, they would brag non-stop to anyone who would listen about how clever they were to come up with the idea. There are unfortunately a lot of business owners out there for whom the only thing they like more than making money is making money by directly screwing someone over. It’s the only thing that makes them feel smart. I’ve had the misfortune of working for a few of them.
If this isn’t a thing now, I guarantee someone is going to try it.
Omg tiktok journalism once again