Pissed off and excited

It seems that my review for restaurant has pissed off a few people. Enough so that they emailed their lawyer about it which brought a spike in traffic from their meticulous scrutiny of the personal food review site I maintain. If you are wondering which one I am talking about, it is this.

It started off as a simple review. Something that I do with honesty and sincerity until a long time customer got a hold of it and started emailing my employer (Because I forgot to remove a logo from one of the images), forcing me to waste a day worth my time to update everyone and deal with it (which resulted in the scrutiny and modification of any information related to my work by the whole marketing department).

In each one of my review, I try my best to mention both the positives and the negatives and did my best to do the same for that restaurant. Granted, my experience there wasn’t that great, but that’s the whole point of a personal website isn’t it?

Today, I noticed a weird spike in traffic and as always I check up on it to see if another person tried to leech off of my pictures. Lo and behold, it was a law firm going through every single one of my reviews from an email link that someone sent them. Prime computation deducts that it is the owner of that restaurant who sent it to his lawyer.

Instead of contacting me directly to rectify the situation, so far they’ve resulted to pressure tactics from my employer and perhaps legal means. I am just dumbstruck by this type of behavior. I mean it doesn’t make business sense. Consider the case where they win and they make my life miserable what will happen?

There are actually less people visiting that site than the real people that I know in life. At the beginning, when I finished writing the post, I was neutral and hoping to go back again to experience the dining experience as an individual to give them a fair score. With all of this that has already happened now, I am leaning towards telling people not to go to that restaurant if they ask me.

However, when they do take legal action and really make my life miserable. What do you think I will do? I will not only have an interesting and funny story to tell everyone I know, I will also do it for free and go out of my way to do it.

How much are they paying their lawyers? And how much am I getting paid for telling my funny story? That’s my question.