A Michelin-starred cook has been discontinue his roles crossed 3 fashionable San Francisco restaurants aft a spat betwixt himself and an influencer.
Geoffrey Lee stood down from his roles astatine Hamburger Project, Handroll Project and the Michelin starred Jū-Ni, pursuing comments helium made to influencer Kat Ensign.
Ensign, who goes by @katwalksf online, had shared a video online criticizing the prime of Hamburger Project's nutrient connected her societal media.
In it, she says that she tried the nutrient and decided it 'wasn't for me', saying they needed clip to 'iron retired the kinks'.
Lee decided to spell aft Ensign for her comments, which she past shared to her societal media pages and rapidly picked up steam connected them.
He messaged her saying: 'Because idiosyncratic needs to archer you to turn up. It's pathetic being damn adjacent 50 and trying to person power implicit 20 twelvemonth aged somethings to effort to stay immoderate benignant of consciousness of relativity.
'All of chefs look down connected it and 1 of america has to archer you.'
Other comments from him astir Ensign person since emerged connected societal media, 1 of which reads: 'She is truthful weird, it seems unstable.'
Geoffrey Lee stood down from his roles astatine Hamburger Project, Handroll Project and Jū-Ni, pursuing comments helium made to influencer Kat Ensign.
Ensign, who goes by @katwalksf online, had shared a video online criticizing the prime of Hamburger Project's nutrient connected her societal media
Another says that she 'has the astir annoying Karen voice' and said helium wanted her to halt attending Golden State Warriors crippled owed them losing erstwhile she attends.
Ensign told The San Francisco Standard that 2 weeks aft her archetypal reappraisal of the burger edifice that she noticed him commenting connected her content.
She said: 'It was random things connected each post, responding to people’s comments — my weight, my appearance. Nothing astir my acquisition [at Hamburger Project].'
When reached by The Standard, Lee said: 'There’s been accusations that I body-shamed her. That’s wholly fabricated truthful she tin power the narrative.
Ensign said that helium sent the messages and past edited them earlier she could get a screenshot of them.
She added: 'He took that down, but helium had his kid nonstop maine a dependable memo.'
Lee added: 'She came successful wrong the archetypal 3 oregon 4 days of Hamburger Project being unfastened and made a nationalist reappraisal of the restaurant, benignant of insulting maine and calling them ‘Ozempic burgers’ for clickbait.
'A fewer days later, I mentioned determination are a batch of radical who similar it, and possibly it’s conscionable you who doesn’t?'
In it, she says that she tried the nutrient and decided it 'wasn't for me', saying they needed clip to 'iron retired the kinks'
Since the video started being wide shared online, Lee has taken connected an apologetic tone.
He said: 'Clearly, my opinions bash not bespeak those of everyone other successful the restaurant. When I made the comment, it was maine lasting up for the remainder of the team.'
Another contented creator, known arsenic Maggie Z, was besides targeted by Lee aft she shared the video critiquing his burger.
He wrote to her saying: 'I find influencer civilization to beryllium immoderate of the scummiest successful our community.'
Lee has since acceptable his Instagram to private. All 3 restaurants person since been bombarded with barroom one-star reviews online.
He added: 'I learned a lesson, I shouldn’t person replied back. But I don’t judge that conscionable due to the fact that I’m a chef-owner, my dependable should beryllium silenced.
'What I was trying to fig retired is what makes this influencer exempt from my critiques, but she’s allowed to travel into my house, my restaurant, to knock my food.'
In a connection his erstwhile leader said: 'Effective immediately, Geoffrey Lee is relieved from his relation arsenic Executive Chef astatine Hamburger Project, Handroll Project, and Jū-Ni.
Lee has since acceptable his Instagram to private. All 3 restaurants person since been bombarded with barroom one-star reviews online.
Lee decided to spell aft Ensign for her comments, which she past shared to her societal media pages and rapidly picked up steam connected them
'Moving guardant Geoffrey volition nary longer person immoderate engagement successful the operations of these restaurants. We person zero tolerance for the behaviour helium has exhibited successful caller weeks.
'As a company, we unequivocally condemn each forms of bullying and harassment whether online oregon successful existent life.
'This behaviour is simply a stark opposition to the values and civilization that we strive to uphold successful our businesses.
'We privation to marque it wide that Geoffrey’s actions and opinions are his ain and bash not bespeak the standards, civilization and morals of our businesses.
'As a squad we clasp ourselves to a acceptable of standards which see respect, kindness, and empathy. Absolutely cipher successful our enactment is exempt from these expectations.'
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