“I used to be condescending, hurtful, and intimidating. You didn’t should be made to really feel lower than or unimportant,” Chef Luke Sung wrote in an apology, after stepping away from the restaurant.
Chef Luke Sung is apologizing — and stepping down from his place at Kis Café — after making impolite feedback a few TikTok influencer.
All of it started when TikTok creator Karla, often called @itskarlabb, shared her expertise after being invited to a brand new restaurant in San Francisco to assessment the meals and expertise. Nonetheless, her go to was quick lived, with Karla leaving the institution in tears when the chef of the restaurant wasn’t so welcoming.
Within the video, Karla claimed that after studying her following quantity on TikTok — which was round 15,000 followers on the time — he allegedly stated it was a “mistake” to ask her. She stated he even boasted that his daughter has over 600,000 followers on TikTok and that she is “not at that stage.”
“He goes on to say that my viewers and my followers usually are not the type of individuals which can be going to be at his restaurant,” Karla stated.
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“Then he says, ‘To not be snobby, however are you aware who I’m?'” she continued. “And I say no as a result of I do not know who he’s.”
“I inform him that I felt disrespected as a result of they had been speaking about me proper in entrance of me and belittling my work.”
When Karla posted the TikTok, social media customers flooded the feedback with help, rising her view depend to 2 million views. Sung’s daughter, Isabelle Sung, even issued an apology after seeing the video, which reached over 3.9 million views.
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The restaurant, in the meantime, referred to as him out in Instagram as nicely — saying his “conduct was unacceptable and he’s not a part of the staff as a co-owner, a chef or in every other manner.” The restaurant additionally claimed that the chef “reached out to the creator with a private apology,” earlier than clarifying in an replace that “Luke didn’t get fired from the staff, he left of his personal accord.”
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