YouTuber opens fake restaurant
Place an order? Or would you rather heat up your own microwave meal?
In London, YouTuber Josh Pieters managed to sell reheated microwave meals to unsuspecting customers via delivery service Deliveroo. He “opened” a fake restaurant and got to work.
Nothing illegal about it
All it took was coming up with a name: The Italian Stallion, filling in some forms, telling Deliveroo they were welcome to come and inspect (apparently they don’t do that right away), and running back and forth to the supermarket as soon as an order came in.
Pingggg
There were only five orders, because Pieters and his companion found it rather tiring to keep fetching a three-compartment meal and throwing it in the microwave. They also put the amount the customer had paid back in cash with the order as a refund, so they didn’t earn anything from it (at least not from the food). Most strikingly, people said they found the food delicious, leading to the conclusion that any joker can set up a delivery kitchen.
Lose-lose
As far as we’re concerned, this story has two losers and one, well, non-loser? Customers are served a reheated slop for a hefty price, Deliveroo doesn’t seem to have its affairs in order, and Josh Pieters has at least used his stunt (the counter stands at 450,000 viewers) to expose a problem.
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