A video circulating on social media reveals an area man’s encounter with an Atlanta restaurant proprietor who’s seen calling him “scumbag” after the person alleged he skilled a bout of meals poisoning after consuming on the institution and requested a refund.
Atlanta Black Star spoke to the shopper who goes by @IAmTheRealLegend on Instagram and TikTok after he posted a video displaying his interactions with the proprietor, a supervisor, and a server at Your third Spot in Atlanta’s Higher Westside.
Legend stated he went to the restaurant simply after midnight on April 12 for his brother’s birthday celebration and ordered oysters and rooster and waffles. He left when the bar closed at 1:30 a.m. and went dwelling.
He stated he wakened round 5:30 a.m., experiencing extreme vomiting and diarrhea for hours, which triggered him excruciating ache. Later that afternoon, he stated he returned to Your third Spot to request a refund of roughly $100 for the meals and drinks he had bought.
A supervisor knowledgeable him that the restaurant would want to analyze to make sure he was current the earlier night time and had paid for his meals earlier than issuing a refund. Legend confirmed them footage of him on the bar and the meals he had eaten, however the restaurant refused to provide him a refund till they investigated his claims additional.
After requesting to talk with one other supervisor or the proprietor, Legend stated that one of many servers from his brother’s celebration noticed him and approached him to ask what occurred. When Legend stated he had caught meals poisoning, the waiter talked about that he began experiencing related signs after consuming the restaurant’s pizza the identical night time Legend was there.
Legend recorded a part of his interplay with the server and one other supervisor. Within the footage, the server tells the supervisor about his signs. Legend stated the supervisor responded with skepticism to the claims and nonetheless refused to refund him.
As Legend continued to problem the restaurant’s resolution, he stated the proprietor, Josh Rossmeisl, approached him and pulled him apart to talk with him privately. The dialog went south shortly when Legend stated Rossmeisl rejected his allegations, accused him of mendacity, and demanded that he depart the property.
“I’m pondering he was gonna speak to me sensibly, and that’s when he began saying, ‘You’re a bully,’ ‘You’re gonna be held accountable for making false allegations of meals poisoning.’ He’s like, ‘You already know you didn’t get any meals poisoning from right here.’”
When Legend instructed Rossmeisl {that a} server additionally reported he wasn’t feeling nicely after consuming the restaurant’s meals, Rossmeisl allegedly instructed him that he had misheard what the worker stated and accused him of manipulating and distorting the server’s account.
At that time, Legend stated he determined to go away, however the proprietor adopted him down the road and continued to berate him.
A part of Legend’s video additionally reveals a portion of his interplay with Rossmeisl during which the proprietor was heard saying, “You’re a scumbag … It is a small enterprise that you simply’ve been bullying, you’re exploiting.”
“That’s not the way you deal with a scenario like that,” Legend stated of the proprietor’s remarks. “Prefer it might’ve went so totally different even and not using a refund, even for those who wouldn’t have given me a refund. I nonetheless would’ve left the institution in the event that they talked to me in a greater method and resolved it in a greater method, however he took it straight to threatening and name-calling like a baby.”
After the video and Legend’s allegations began circulating on social media, Your third Spot wrote a touch upon Instagram stating that Legend got here to the restaurant displaying no meals poisoning “signs, no physician’s observe, no proof. Simply threats.” The restaurant additionally alleged that Legend would “expose them “if we didn’t pay up.”
“That’s not a visitor. That’s extortion. He refused to allow us to examine. Refused to supply proof. We reviewed footage, checked legs, spoke with employees. Not one different individual out of 472 company that night time reported a problem,” the restaurant’s remark learn. “Our solely mistake? Not calling the police … Loving all of the defaming statements made which at the moment are display screen captured and can be used as additional evidence- Keep tuned.”
After Atlanta Black Star reached out to Your third Spot for additional remark, the restaurant despatched this assertion:
We’re conscious of the video circulating on-line. It stems from a person who tried to use our enterprise by demanding compensation with out offering any credible proof or permitting a correct investigation.
Your third Spot is proud to make use of over 100 folks and help many neighborhood organizations and chariies. We encourage anybody reporting on this to think about the total context and to look rigorously into the background of the person making these claims earlier than giving weight to a closely edited video.
What is just not seen are the actions and statements from this particular person, that are a part of an ongoing authorized investigation. Whereas we can’t share additional particulars but, we’re assured that the information will clarify this particular person’s claims are baseless. We stand behind our group, our requirements, and our popularity. Anybody who is aware of our enterprise is aware of the sort of folks and tradition we’ve constructed.”
Legend additionally despatched Atlanta Black Star documentation displaying he was handled for a criticism of meals poisoning at a hospital after his encounter with Rossmeisl.
Legend added that he has already been in contact along with his attorneys and plans to file civil motion in opposition to the restaurant for the alleged meals poisoning incident.
