In the past decade, we’ve seen more and more people becoming influencers. Is it because they really love what they do or because it seems like a pretty good-paying job for not a lot of effort? Who knows? You can only find out if you become an influencer yourself. But their lives do seem glamorous with the trips around the world and gifts from famous brands.
Most of us probably thought that it would be a nice life and that it would be so cool if brands just sent stuff to your home just because you’re popular on the internet. But it’s not always like that. Turns out, influencers have gotten a little bit too used to getting everything for free, so much so that they’ve started asking for it.
Crazy Pedro’s Pizza Parlour shared a message that they’ve received from such an influencer and was annoyed that they don’t understand that businesses are really struggling right now and it’s not the time to ask for free food from them.
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Crazy Pedro’s, a pizza bar chain in the UK, is at the center of attention for refusing to give a free meal to an influencer offering to promote them on their social media
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Crazy Pedro’s is a pizza bar with locations in Manchester and Liverpool in the UK. They are most known for their pizza and margaritas as well as the laid-back atmosphere. They are quite popular on social media, having over 45k followers on Instagram, they are also active on Twitter, and you can check them out on Facebook too.
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The influencer actually mentioned a collaboration, not just plainly asked for free food, but the intention is practically the same
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Recently they received a message saying that an influencer is coming to Manchester with their boyfriend and were asking if they would be willing to collaborate with them. Meaning, if Crazy Pedro’s would give them a free meal in exchange for them posting about it on their social media.
These types of exchanges are very usual. Actually, that’s the whole point of influencers: they influence their followers to buy something. Furthermore, it’s not the first time that the pizza bar is receiving such a request. A spokesperson for Crazy Pedro’s, Nick Coupland, told Bored Panda, “We have received a high volume of these in the past – it’s not something we’ve ever really done though however!”
When asked, why they shared this message in particular, Nick answered, “It was how it was delivered and the timing of it… If the person in question had taken 2 minutes to read our profile and see that we’ve had to close a venue the previous week due to COVID issues – they’d hopefully have thought that this isn’t a good time for us. But it was more that it was a blanket message (as other bars received exactly the same) that was sent. It was just the way they went about it!”
The spokesperson didn’t reveal anything about the influencer, just that they didn’t react to the sassy response, but haven’t unfollowed the pizza bar.
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Crazy Pedro’s doesn’t promote their business with influencers, “If someone tags us into a great piece of content, we do reach out and ask if we can reshare with their permission (and credit of course) which is entirely up to them whether they allow us to use their content! We find it great that people love to shout about our venues anyway on their own social channels!”
Crazy Pedro’s responded with “It’s a no from us ” and suggested that the influencer “read the room”
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When Crazy Pedro’s shared the message they received on their Instagram this is what they wrote in the caption, “READ THE ROOM. We’ve been open 4/5 months tops out of the last 14 and just last week closed one of our venues in the interest of staff and customers safety—whilst you’re out here after a bit of free food?
We’re all for a bit of promotion so why not pay us a visit and shout about our ‘yummy food
