Food bloggers must stop holding restaurants to ransom for free food.
That's the message from Kilkenny restaurant Campagne, whose Tweet outing a food blogger looking to eat for free went viral.
The start of another week in paradise..🙄 pic.twitter.com/zLP3bhBORV
— campagne restaurant (@campagnekilkenn) September 19, 2017
The tweet was picked up all across the globe, by the likes of Mashable, The Huffington Post and the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Garrett Byrne is the Head Chef and proprietor of Champagne Restaurant in Kilkenny.
He says the practice of bloggers receiving food in exchange for 'online exposure' is dishonest:
"We get around eight to ten of these requests a year and normally we never even reply, but this one was just so badly worded and it just struck a cord with me.
"I thought I would just tweet it out and get a few retweets, but it just went crazy.
"I don't like the practice myself, its just people looking for a free meal who might have very insignificant and small blogs.
"I think it's very dishonest when a restaurant gives a freebie to a blogger and they write positive reviews.
"I don't think that's honest for the average person on the street."
