Olive Garden's Comped Receipt PR Win: Real or Fake?
Social media has recently taught us that restaurant receipts, when posted and shared online, can provide brands with a lot of press that can be either very good or very bad. This week The Consumerist asks: are some restaurants now attempting to hijack that trend by posting complementary receipts online themselves in the hope of earning some great PR? Here’s the Reddit photo that prompted the question:
Notice that every item has been comped. According to the user’s story, he was out for dinner at Olive Garden when his three-year-old daughter responded to the restaurant manager’s “how is everything” query by telling him that her grandparents’ house had just burned down.
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