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Going out to eat can be hit-or-miss. Customers can have amazing experiences and witness unbeatable hospitality. Or they can run into the worst-case scenario and get stonewalled from ordering any food.

One woman is going viral for sharing her “zero out of ten” experience at a restaurant she never got to try. The reason why? The restaurant was out of multiple items she and her friends ordered despite seemingly serving other tables.

What happened at Con Amor?

Content creator Shanell (@spotlightshanell) posted a video of herself at Florida-based Mexican restaurant Con Amor. The video has more than 1.5 million views.

“We just came to Con Amor in Tampa,” Shanell said. “Y’all know they got those new soft-serve [margaritas]. We waited two hours.”

Shanell said that she and her group arrived at Con Amor at 7 p.m. But her group had to leave and come back later because the restaurant was too busy. After waiting for “a couple hours,” they came back to Con Amor for soft-serve margaritas. But they learned that the restaurant didn’t have any left.

“They’re not making any more, they ran out,” Shanell said, making air quotes with her fingers. Then she flipped the camera to show restaurant staff making two new soft-serve margaritas, saying, “Wait a [expletive] minute.”

Shanell stuttered repeatedly at the sight, apparently in disbelief at the situation.

“This is already a zero out of ten experience,” she said. “I’m aggravated.”

What made Shanell leave the restaurant?

Shanell and her friends wanted to eat at the restaurant. But they learned there were “no birria tacos either.” She also said that other members of her party made requests that staff refused.

“Bria asked them for a lemon drop,” Shanell said. “They said, ‘We don’t do lemon drops because … we don’t have that vodka.’  She said, ‘Well, I get mine with tequila.’ [The restaurant said], ‘No, we don’t do lemon drops.’”

The restaurant reassured her and her group that they had “everything else.” Then Shanell’s friend then tried to order something else on the menu.

“My friend ordered quesadillas,” Shanell said. “’We don’t have those.’ Like, y’all have nothing.”

Shanell said she and her friends did not feel welcome, so they left the establishment.

“Everything we asked for, it just gave like: ’We just want y’all to leave,’” Shanell said. “Yeah, we going to [LongHorn Steakhouse]. LongHorn never disappoints.”

@spotlightshanell

Thats a NEGATIVE 5/10! No margs. No lemon drops. No birria tacos. No quesadillas. Alexa, play Whitney Houston- I Have NOTHING!!! Don’t waste yall time coming here. 😭 @Con Amor FL

♬ original sound – Spotlight Shanell 💕

How did Con Amor respond?

In the comment section of her video, Shanell shared a screenshot allegedly capturing an exchange she had with Con Amor via Instagram direct message. Shanell had shared an Instagram story criticizing Con Amor for its service. She tagged the restaurant in the story and wrote, “yall SUCK!”

Con Amor shared her content to its Instagram story. A representative from the business called Shanell’s words “nasty.”

“We were out of quesadillas and the soft serve machine was on a wait. We don’t do birria on the weekends,” they wrote. “Hope you grow up eventually and learn that small restaurants are doing everything they can and don’t owe you anything you’re not special.”

Shanell in turn shared that story to her profile. She asked the restaurant to “stop lying.”

“Imagine responding like this as a ‘business,’” she wrote. “Yall told us yall aren’t doing them no more for THE NIGHT! It’s all on video. Enjoy those reviews that’s about to come yall way.”

In response to that story from Shanell, Con Amor’s Instagram account sent her a direct message with laughing emojis.

“Awwww you didn’t get what you want now you angyyyyy awwww poor babbyyyy,” a representative wrote.

When Shanell screenshotted and shared this whole back-and-forth to her TikTok comment section, she wrote, “What kind of business is this?!?” Her comment received more than 81,000 likes.

Was Con Amor discriminating against Shanell and her friends?

Commenters said that the way employees treated Shanell and her friends may have had a racial motive. One person simply called the business “racist.” They added, “We see how they are.”

“It’s giving we don’t service your kind,” one comment said. It received more than 34,000 likes.

The company privately denied allegations of racism, according to one of Shanell’s posts. In one of the content creator’s videos, she explained that Con Amor privately messaged individuals on Instagram about the situation. At least one person sent her the restaurant’s response. A representative allegedly wrote it was “odd [Shanell] and her friends were recording.”

“She and her friends were rude to our staff on the way out… Then we were tagged and told we suck so yes we lost it,” they said. “We’re not racist, the owners are both mixed and we have every race employed here happily. We don’t take kindly to people being negative to us so we gave it right back. But that’s some how unprofessional.”

In her response, Shanell discussed some of the restaurant’s claims. In the caption of her post, she wrote, “Y’all are making it worse on yourselves. Nothing that y’all are saying is making sense at all.”

Buzz News reached out to Con Amor and Shanell via email for comment.

Working both smarter and harder can be a great recipe for workers with some hustle to make extra cash. But sometimes, having more dollars can lead to extra stress.

One worker is going viral for sharing her experience with a coworker who allegedly tried to sabotage her at the workplace after her numbers started going up.

What did Kimmie charge that night?

Nightlife dancer Kimmie (@kimmiexoxo_) shared a video that has more than 35,000 views. In it, she detailed what went down with her “hater” coworker.

“Okay, so I’m going to give you guys an example of what pocket watching looks like in [gentleman’s club] working as a [nightlife dancer],” Kimmie said. “Now, I have multiple incidents, but I can remember this freshly.”

Kimmie said this incident occurred while she was still working at Peppermint Hippo, a club in Las Vegas. The establishment charged $200 for half-hour dances (which are generally private sessions). Kimmie was unimpressed with this rate and made a habit of “never really [paying] attention to the prices” set by clubs, so she “would always charge more.”

“So I remember I ended up getting this guy and I asked him for a total of $700,” Kimmie said. “He had no problem giving that to me. None whatsoever, right? Mind you, I had already went over the prices prior to him giving me that extra money.”

What did her coworker do?

However, one waitress overheard how much Kimmie was charging. The waitress, whom Kimmie called a “snitch” and a “[expletive] weirdo,” told the club’s host. He ended up getting involved.

“And so the host comes into the room and he’s like … ‘Just making sure everything is okay, you know, the prices and things like that,’” Kimmie said. “And [the customer’s] like, ‘Yeah, it’s all good, I gave her … some extra money.’”

Kimmie had already squared things with the customer, but she bemoaned the jealous and sometimes “hateful” culture she experienced as a dancer at such nightlife establishments. 

“Why would you even do that … like, why?” Kimmie said. “And that’s the [expletive] I’m talking about, like [expletive] be so [expletive] weird and just so hateful in the clubs. It’s like, if you wanted to be a [nightlife dancer] you should audition with your big back … but you can’t. That’s why you’re a waitress.”

What is pocket watching, exactly?

Kimmie mentioned that her coworker was “pocket watching.” But what does the phrase actually mean?

According to Know Your Meme, “pocket watching” originated as a slang phrase in African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) and is “used to describe the act of carefully following someone else’s personal expenses.”

“‘Watching someone’s pockets’ means monitoring someone’s income and expenditure, and is an activity that is generally taken to be annoying or off-putting,” Know Your Meme says. “Throughout the 2010s, the slang term became more widespread as it was increasingly popularized online … The earliest known uses of the phrase ‘pocket watching’ on the internet can be traced back to tweets as early as 2009, with various Twitter users using the term in a negative way. The term pocket watching is also used in various rap songs.”

Finance writer Brian Chikami says that people pocket watch “out of envy,” and advises against the practice altogether.

“I may be wrong, but we’re all so closely connected and have access to other people’s perceived personal lives,” Chikami says. “I’d say most of us pocket watch to some degree thanks to social media. It’s normal but not healthy for our own self-esteem.”

Buzz News reached out to Kimmie via TikTok comment.

Few people go on vacation expecting to be hospitalized. But all kinds of travel, from air to car, run the risk of bodily harm.

One woman is going viral for sharing an accident she and her friends endured while on a lighthearted vacation. According to her, a drunk driver hit their vehicle, which resulted in catastrophic consequences.

What happened during the girls’ trip?

Content creator Kuru (@kuruthegemini) posted a video about a life-threatening experience she and her friends had during a group trip to Tampa. The video has more than 147,000 views.

“I cannot move my right leg,” Kuru said. “My best friend is in the ICU with no feeling, chest and below. My other friend, she walked out just fine, but with a lot of soreness in her neck and her shoulders … The girls’ trip was supposed to be fun.”

Kuru said the girls had “a lot of plans” they were excited to execute and “things that [they] wanted to,” but then the trip got derailed by an underage drunk driver.

“Things took a turn Thursday night, when a selfish individual decided to get on the road extremely intoxicated,” Kuru said. “We were in a big truck… a Nissan Armada. We staggered ourselves, not intentionally. My best friend was sitting in the back, driver’s back row. I was sitting in the middle row, driver’s side. And our friend was sitting in the passenger side, up at the front. The car hit us directly from the back.”

@kuruthegemini Nothings funny today unfortunately My lil heart hurts. #girlstrip #tampa #florida #storytime #tripgonewrong ♬ Clair de lune – Debussy , Soft Piano(1076685) – Noi m knot

What happened to the car and passengers?

Kuru said the car was “completely crushed,” leaving every single person in the party injured. The degree of injury varied from person to person. In a follow-up video, she said her friend in the ICU, Dominique, had “[broken] her spine at c6 and c7.” Kuru also said the drunk driver had “very minimal insurance coverage,” so the friend group would be helping her pay for rehab and medical bills via a GoFundMe fundraiser.

“One person’s choice … could have ruined multiple families’ lives,” Kuru said. “It’s absolutely changed my life. Changed my friend’s life, who’s sitting in the ICU right now, who had plans for her year too.”

In the comment section of another video, Kuru told one of her viewers that the friend in the ICU had moved into rehab and “is in amazing spirits!” Kuru expressed confidence that “she’ll make a full recovery soon enough.” Kuru herself is currently undergoing physical therapy to “[try] to get [her] right leg to act like [her] left.”

How to protect yourself from drunk drivers

While there is no foolproof method to avoid paying the price for someone else’s decision to drive drunk, experts agree on a few key procedures that can maximize your safety on the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says that “every day, about 32 people in the United States die in drunk-driving crashes — that’s one person every 44 minutes.”

Element Fleet, an automotive website, says that recognizing the signs of an impaired driver is one of the first steps in avoiding collisions.

Telltale signs of impairment include swerving between lanes, fluctuating between high and low speeds, and making excessively wide turns. The website notes drivers may seem “distracted or unaware of surrounding factors or take longer to respond to traffic lights or stop signs.”

Element Fleet advises drivers to never seek confrontation with impaired individuals, but rather to maintain a “safe distance” from them and call 911. Personal injury attorney Kenneth Berger echoes these sentiments.

Buzz News has reached out to Kuru via TikTok comment.