He Left Bad Reviews On His OWN Restaurant 😭 — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, this restaurant owner from China is
2. 0:01currently going viral for desperately
3. 0:03trying to convince people to stop coming
4. 0:04to his restaurant.
5. 0:05>> [music]
6. 0:06>> It all started when this food blogger
7. 0:07named Liu You Sen with over 10 million
8. 0:09followers just so happened to visit his
9. 0:10city of Foshan and noticed a sign that
10. 0:12read, "People who dine here might find
11. 0:14themselves having to poop." When Liu
12. 0:15asked him about it, he explained that
13. 0:16their fresh chicken soup is uniquely
14. 0:18made with traditional Chinese medicine
15. 0:19[music] herbs, which helps remove the
16. 0:21body's dampness. And since he could
17. 0:22actually be heard repeatedly asking Liu
18. 0:24not to brag [music] about his food, and
19. 0:25please don't make me too popular, his
20. 0:27video obviously went incredibly viral.
21. 0:29Although a lot of people thought at
22. 0:30first that he was using reverse
23. 0:31psychology, it turns out [music] the guy
24. 0:33just genuinely loved his easy and
25. 0:34peaceful life serving 30 customers a
26. 0:36day. When he started getting up to 3,000
27. 0:38a day lining up for hours outside,
28. 0:40including many more influencers and
29. 0:41celebrities, [music] he had to extend
30. 0:42his closing time and was just completely
31. 0:44exhausted. Even after intentionally
32. 0:46leaving tons of fake one-star reviews
33. 0:48and only talking about the negatives of
34. 0:49his food on every interview, that only
35. 0:50caused [music] more people to want to
36. 0:52show up. And although he even tried
37. 0:53temporarily closing his store to let the
38. 0:55hype die down, the local tourism bureau
39. 0:57convinced him to reopen.