A Cambridge, Massachusetts, restaurant chef and owner decided to take to social media to teach two unruly customers a lesson when they threatened to write about the eatery on Yelp.
Michael Scelfo, the chef/owner at Alden & Harlow, posted a picture of the women and wrote, "#wedontnegotiatewithyelpers," Boston Eater first reported.
The caption on the now-deleted picture, which was screenshot by BostInno, read:
shout out to these two winners for seating themselves with no reservations, insulting and berating our staff, refusing to leave and all the while yelping away in front of us as a means of threat. #kbye#wedontnegotiatewithyelpers
Scelfo later added, "It's one thing to be entitled, but mistreat my family. Hell no."
In a follow-up comment, the chef elaborated: "My choice to post this is not to slander on them per say but to call attention to a major flaw in the current 'online review system & entitled mentality.'"
He added that with the staff feeling like their only other option was calling the police, they "opted to kill [the women] with kindness until they left."
Scelfo declined to comment to BuzzFeed News.
Though Eater reported that many of the comments on the now-deleted picture were negative, Scelfo is being heralded as a hero on Twitter.
Everyone should give @mscelfo and his resto @AldenHarlow as much business as they can! #wedontnegotiatewithyelpers
@EaterBoston @mscelfo is a hero, a pioneer, and a damn good boss & chef if he stands up for his resto family as he did, good for him!
@mscelfo this man is a hero <3