People all around the web have been launched to Somerville’s Dragon Pizza after its proprietor ripped into Barstool’s Dave Portnoy, and the pair exchanged “F” bombs and flipped one another off in a viral video.
The fiery interplay between the proprietor of Dragon Pizza in Davis Square and Portnoy has led to a spike of Yelp feedback for Dragon Pizza — and an “Unusual Activity Alert” discover on the eatery’s Yelp web page.
During one in every of Portnoy’s current pizza critiques in Davis Square, Dragon Pizza proprietor Charlie Redd stepped outdoors his institution and approached Portnoy on the Elm Street sidewalk.
“Dave, enjoy your pizza as any customer, but I don’t appreciate what you do, coming in and judging a business with one bite,” Redd informed Portnoy.
“Well, we do more,” Portnoy responded.
“I hope you enjoy your pizza, but I don’t appreciate what you do to small businesses,” Redd stated earlier than strolling again into Dragon Pizza.
“I’ve actually helped so many small businesses,” Portnoy stated, including that he raised $50 million for small companies.
Then a minute later, Redd returns to the sidewalk, telling Portnoy to depart.
“Move on. Don’t stand in front of my business,” the proprietor stated.
Portnoy rapidly responded, “Let me be clear: (Expletive) you.”
“Let me be clear: Get the (expletive) out in front of my business,” Redd stated again to Portnoy.
They then continued to commerce a bunch of expletives and flip one another off.
(Warning for the video: It’s filled with expletives.)
Dragon Pizza in an Instagram submit wrote, “F@$K you and the Stool you came in on, Dave Douchebag. Your show sucks. You suck, and you truly are the classless tool I thought you are.”
One of the photographs within the Instagram submit exhibits the proprietor flipping off Portnoy.
After the video went up on-line Thursday night time, Dragon Pizza’s Yelp web page was flooded with feedback. There was an “Unusual Activity Alert” discover on the web page.
“This business recently received increased public attention, which often means people come to this page to post their views on the news,” the discover reads.
“While we don’t take a stand one way or the other when it comes to this incident, we’ve temporarily disabled the posting of content to this page as we work to investigate whether the content you see here reflects actual consumer experiences rather than the recent events,” the web page reads.
Portnoy began off the pizza evaluate earlier than chaos erupted by saying Dragon Pizza had 50 critiques on the One Bite app, and had acquired a mean rating of 8 out of 10.
“It’s a floppy mess,” Portnoy stated as he took a chew. “Strong parmesan… sturdy parmesan. This is an acquired style. Like, if you happen to get this, know you’re going to get hit with a left, proper within the face with parmesan.
“I’m not the biggest parm guy,” he added. “Wow. I just don’t love parm.”
Portnoy gave the slice a rating of 6.4, effectively under the One Bite common.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”