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Dragon Pizza flooded with negative Yelp reviews following Dave Portnoy argument
Dragon Pizza flooded with negative Yelp reviews following Dave Portnoy argument
An argument between the founder of Barstool Sports and American businessman, Dave Portnoy and the owner of the Dragon Pizza restaurant in Sommerville, Massachusettes has led to the pizzeria being flooded with reviews. In 2017 46-year-old Portnoy began an internet series called 'One Bite Pizza' where he does video reviews of pizza outlets throughout the United States. The popular series also has an app and its own frozen pizza range. Portnoy's series is usually well-received and has featured the odd celebrity guest and wholesome interactions with the public that have gone viral. However, his latest review has gone viral for all the wrong reasons. His review of Dragon Pizza took an unexpected turn when the owner of the restaurant, wearing a tight Star Wars t-shirt, stormed out onto the street where Portnoy was filming his review to berate the businessman. At this point, Portnoy was already a little disappointed with the food he had purchased giving it a medium rating of 6.4 but did concede that it could have been his fault for leaving it in the box too long. However, the mood soon changed when the owner confronted him. "Enjoy your pizza as any customer but I don’t appreciate what you do, coming in and judging a business with one bite," the owner yelled at Portnoy before telling him to move on. Portnoy argues back and forth with the owner, criticising his appearance and highlighting all the work and money he had raised to help and promote small businesses. Dragon Pizza has subsequently gone viral thanks to this interaction and flooded with negative reviews on Yelp which appear to have emerged since Portnoy shared his own review so it's hard to determine how genuine they are. Barstool Sports has since shared an article calling the owner 'one of the worst humans in history.' The owner previously responded to the argument a week ago (presumably when the review was filmed) with a stinging Instagram post where he 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." In Portnoy's article he conceded that he wasn't everyone's "cup of tea" but questioned why the owner would pick a fight with him and "say that I'm bad for small business and bad for the pizza industry?" He added: "Like even my most ardent haters have to begrudgingly admit that I've done more for small business than 99.9 of private citizens in this country. It just shows how little this guy actually knows about me that he couldn't name 1 actual reason he really hated me besides "The New York Times." And that is why this guy is everything that is wrong with America right now." Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
2023-09-01 23:33
Monty Lopez: 5 unknown facts about Tiktok star Addison Rae's father who cheated on her mother
Monty Lopez: 5 unknown facts about Tiktok star Addison Rae's father who cheated on her mother
The rumors soon blew up into a full-fledged controversy when a 25-year-old model, Renee Ash revealed she had a months-long affair with Monty Lopez
2023-06-02 17:02
Sean Couturier's shootout goal lifts Flyers past Penguins 4-3
Sean Couturier's shootout goal lifts Flyers past Penguins 4-3
Sean Couturier scored the lone goal in the shootout and the Philadelphia Flyers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Saturday night
2023-12-03 11:16
Marketmind: Edgy market calm after worst day of 2023
Marketmind: Edgy market calm after worst day of 2023
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets by Mike Dolan Punch-drunk from a bombardment of central
2023-09-22 18:23
Tenoch Huerta breaks silence over Maria Rios' sexual assault allegation, says they had 'consensual relationship'
Tenoch Huerta breaks silence over Maria Rios' sexual assault allegation, says they had 'consensual relationship'
After our relationship ended, Maria Elena Rios began to misrepresent our interactions privately and in front of mutual friends,' alleged Tenoch Huerta
2023-06-13 04:33
Exploring Kai Cenat's car collection in 2023 as Twitch King buys 4 new exotic rides:'Truly blessed'
Exploring Kai Cenat's car collection in 2023 as Twitch King buys 4 new exotic rides:'Truly blessed'
Kai Cenat showed his fans the four spanking new super cars he had bought
2023-07-08 16:56
Putin unveils Russia’s new AI strategy to rival Western advances in artificial intelligence
Putin unveils Russia’s new AI strategy to rival Western advances in artificial intelligence
Vladimir Putin has unveiled what he calls Russia’s new strategy to counter Western dominance of the field of artifical intelligence, claiming that new AI models “cancel Russian culture”. The president addressed an AI conference in Moscow on Friday where he said Russian investment in AI development was being increased across all sectors. Citing the example of Gazprom Neft, Mr Putin said one of Russia’s largest oil producers was using AI to slash the cost of oil well development and to address complicated logistics safety issues. “I hope we will be more active in this area. When I say ‘we,’ I am referring not only to the government but also to the regions and industries, and individual plants,” Mr Putin said. The Russian leader said the country would intensify its research into the domains of generative AI and large language models which currently lag behind the leading Western-developed tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard chatbots. Speaking about such AI models, he said their full potential had only started to emerge in the past year, while he criticsed “Western search engines” and generative AI models, calling them “very selective and biased”. “They do not take into account and sometimes simply ignore and cancel Russian culture. In simple terms, the machine is given some creative assignment and performs it using only the English language database,” he said. “Thus, the algorithm may tell the machine that Russia, our culture, science, music and literature simply do not exist. They are cancelled in the digital space, as it were,” the Russian president said at the conference. AI created according to “Western standards”, he said, may emerge as a “kind of xenophobe”, he said. “Our domestic models of artificial intelligence must reflect the entire wealth and diversity of world culture, the heritage, knowledge, and wisdom of all civilisations,” he said. English speaking countries currently dominate AI development, with Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) claiming the US and UK were further ahead in the technology than the rest of the world. The Russian president said that the “monopolistic dominance” of the technology was “unacceptable, dangerous and inadmissible”. “Our innovations should rest on our traditional values, the wealth and beauty of the Russian language and languages of other peoples in Russia,” Mr Putin added. To achieve such development, he called for the scaling up pf Russia’s supercomputing power and to improve its top-level AI education. Read More AI breakthrough could help us build solar panels out of ‘miracle material’ OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ousted as CEO YouTube reveals bizarre AI music experiments AI-generated faces are starting to look more real than actual ones Breakthrough ‘safe’ liquid fuel cannot start accidental fires, scientists claim Meta sued over ‘open secret’ of ‘pursuing,’ signing up millions of underage users
2023-11-27 15:33
Stephen A. Smith Doesn't Consider Nikola Jokic Worthy of a Supermax Deal
Stephen A. Smith Doesn't Consider Nikola Jokic Worthy of a Supermax Deal
Stephen A left the two-time MVP off his list of players worthy of a Superman.
2023-06-01 00:22
Arthur Blank looks to the future with US Soccer coming to Atlanta
Arthur Blank looks to the future with US Soccer coming to Atlanta
Arthur Blank's hefty contribution helped Atlanta become the next headquarters for US Soccer.
2023-09-19 07:30
Strycova hails motherhood as factor in Wimbledon doubles success
Strycova hails motherhood as factor in Wimbledon doubles success
Wimbledon doubles champion Barbora Strycova revealed Wednesday that while motherhood was a major contributor to her success it would prevent her from playing again...
2023-07-20 03:05
Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi staying positive after ‘frustrating’ Fulham draw
Brighton boss Roberto De Zerbi staying positive after ‘frustrating’ Fulham draw
Roberto De Zerbi was frustrated with Brighton’s 1-1 draw against Fulham but insisted there were positives to their performance at Amex Stadium. Joao Palhinha’s stunning 65th-minute equaliser cancelled out Evan Ferguson’s opener as Fulham fought to earn a point on the road. And De Zerbi believes the Seagulls lacked a cutting edge on a day where they rued missed first-half opportunities. “I am really frustrated and disappointed with the result,” De Zerbi said. “I think we played a great game, especially three days after the Ajax game at home (a 2-0 win in the Europa League). It was a fantastic first half but we could have scored more. “In the second half we played well. We conceded a goal only in one moment and when we lost distances we lost balance and then there was only one team on the pitch (Fulham). “Last season we lost three points against Fulham and this season we dropped another two points and we are frustrated with the result.” Ireland international Ferguson scored Brighton’s opener with a quality finish past goalkeeper Bernd Leno and into the bottom corner. But boss De Zerbi insisted his striker is not playing at his full capacity despite scoring five times in 10 appearances in the Premier League. He added: “Ferguson is not in his best moment but he’s a different player for us and a different type of striker we have in the squad and I think he could play better but he’s not in the best moment, he played a good game.” Fulham boss Marco Silva believes Fulham were not at their best and showed Brighton “too much respect”. He said: “In the first half we did not reach the standards we should if we want to compete at this level. We were not sharp enough to play the way we would like to play. “We were not aggressive and showed them too much respect. They won most of the challenges and we were not at the level with the pressure. “They won most of the second balls, we cannot be erratic if we want to play under pressure and make the right decisions. The goal we conceded is a good example and we have to make better decisions and be less erratic. “I have to give credit to the players in the second half in the way they believed and they expressed themselves on the pitch.”
2023-10-30 01:35
Teen dies during apparent social media stunt on Los Angeles bridge, police say
Teen dies during apparent social media stunt on Los Angeles bridge, police say
Police say a 17-year-old boy slipped and fell to his death this weekend while climbing a Los Angeles bridge in an apparent social media stunt
2023-05-25 07:40