It’s powerful to scroll by means of your FYP web page on TikTok with out coming throughout wildly widespread meals reviewer Keith Lee and the drama he’s at present within the heart of all due to an excellent deed.
Lee, who’s at present in Dallas, Texas on his Keith Lee and Household Meals Tour, stopped at a meals truck, left a big tip with directions on how one can distribute the cash, after which the drama started.
Keith Lee Visited Sweetly Seasoned Meals Truck In Dallas And Left A Giant Tip
One of many stops whereas in Dallas was at Sweetly Seasoned meals truck. In Lee’s stitched TikTok video, the proprietor’s son defined why they may use some assist with enterprise.
“Keith Lee is formally in Dallas, so I requested him for assist and are available to go to my mother’s meals truck to hopefully flip it round,” the proprietor’s son stated. “She is an award-winning pastry chef, she is a culinary chef, she has two levels. We’re simply from Milwaukee and right here in Dallas. It’s kinda arduous with the advertising and marketing as a result of we don’t know our approach even round but.”
Lee spent $80.11 on a bag of meals and talked about that the meals truck is within the “hood” and there are individuals chopping and braiding hair exterior of the meals truck. He additionally famous that with everybody round, he needed to be slick about getting the meals and seen that they had been livestreaming on social media all the time. (These are all necessary issues to notice.)
Lee tried out a pulled pork sandwich, fried ribs with french fries, jerk rooster tacos and beans and rice and banana pudding. He gave his ranking for every and his opinion on how one can repair the advertising and marketing points, after which determined to go to the meals truck to say hiya and go away a tip.
“Earlier than we left, we went and had a dialog with the mother and we thanked everyone for having us,” Lee stated. “Me and the mama prayed collectively and we left a $4,000 tip behind.”
@keith_lee125 #sew with @Ignoranttrey Sweetly Seasoned style take a look at 💕 would you attempt it ? 💕 #foodcritic ♬ authentic sound – Keith Lee
Throughout the dialog between the meals truck proprietor and Lee, he particularly requested that the tip be divvied up a sure approach – $1,000 for the barber doing the haircuts, $1,000 for the individual doing the braids, and a $2,000 tip for the meals truck proprietor.
Lee requested for his card to be charged $4,000 in complete earlier than leaving.
Then The Drama Entered The Chat…
Tons of movies then started popping up about the truth that the meals truck proprietor didn’t give any of the tip cash to the barber and braider. Sherell Hodge, who had an element in getting Lee to the meals truck, shared a video telling her aspect of the story and revealed that the meals truck proprietor saved all the $4,000 for herself.
“I guess you’re questioning how we obtained right here,” she started her video. “So a number of y’all know yesterday I obtained to satisfy Keith Lee.”
She continued her video explaining the “downfall” of the expertise and shared a clip of Lee explaining the tip cash and who he desires it to go to.
“After all the pieces had died down, thoughts you, on prime of him tipping $4,000, this man left an additional $886 to feed everyone else that was coming,” she continued. “However that is the place she [the owner] went fallacious.”
That’s when Hodge revealed that the proprietor instructed her that after the subsequent individual, “which is the third individual,” begin to cost once more. She then defined that she was instructed it might be a day or two earlier than she obtained her tip cash from Lee.
When the subsequent day rolled round, Hodge requested concerning the tip cash for her brother, the barber who was chopping hair that Lee tipped $1,000. Hodge stated that the proprietor stated she wasn’t going to be paying the barber.
@essessachee WITH ALL THE RIGHT THAT I DO! MF ITS UP AND ITS STUCK!! Them playing cards gone lay the place they lay!! #greenscreenvideo #greenscreen ♬ authentic sound – Sherell S Hodge
Lots of Hodge’s viewers dropped into the feedback to go away their ideas on the drama.
“The very fact stays all of us heard how Keith Lee stated the cash ought to be divided. He stated give the barber $1000!” one individual wrote. One other added, “For these of you complaining ‘it’s simply 1,000.. and many others’ it’s not concerning the cash alone it’s the PRINCIPLE!! The PRINCIPLE!!!”
Time To Hear From Keith Lee!
It was time to listen to from Lee about all of the speak concerning the tip cash not being distributed as he requested.
“To be sincere, there’s not a lot to speak about. However there are just a few conflated and confused issues that’s going round concerning the scenario. So let’s speak about that,” Lee started his video. “Three days in the past, me and my household went to Sweetly Seasoned meals truck. Primary, no person had any concept we was coming. They came upon we was in Dallas like everyone else came upon we was in Dallas.”
Within the hopes of Lee visiting them, they’d shirts made and had been livestreaming all day lengthy. He stated that he was beneath the impression that all the individuals concerned had been a workforce and that this was “a standard routine for them” referring to the barber and braider being there.
He continued to clarify his notion of all the pieces that was happening and stated he was “by no means beneath the impression” that the haircuts had been being achieved free of charge.
“We knew that he was chopping hair for $40. So after we walked up and I stated I wanna give $1,000 to the barber to do free haircuts and $1,000 to the braider to braid hair, it was as a result of an authentic video the son stated it was sluggish resulting from advertising and marketing,” he continued. “That’s advertising and marketing. God willingly, after we submit a video there can be a line out the door. If there’s a line out the door, and there’s a barber and a braider doing hair whereas individuals are ready, that’s advertising and marketing.”
@keith_lee125 💕 Keith Speaks 💕 God Is Wonderful 🙏🏽 #foodcritic ♬ authentic sound – Keith Lee
Lee reiterated that he didn’t know any of the behind the scenes and didn’t know if any of the individuals concerned knew one another or not.
“I’ve realized by means of this journey that typically it’s deeper than the meals, it’s deeper than the advertising and marketing, it’s deeper than the customer support, and that is a type of instances for my part,” Lee stated. “Sweetly Seasoned obtained rather a lot to determine and I thank God prematurely that they do determine it out.”
Lee then defined one thing that the proprietor’s son has been misconstruing about how Lee defined who will get the tip cash.
“After I stated out loud intimately what we deemed the cash for use in direction of, I additionally stated y’all can divvy it out how y’all really feel mandatory, which means, after the cash hits as a result of it’s a POS system, it don’t hit the identical day, y’all can ship it out by means of Apple Pay, by means of Zelle, by means of Money App, by means of verify, by means of money nonetheless y’all really feel essential to unfold it amongst the workforce,” he defined.
“I assumed, and I nonetheless suppose, that’s a really clear assertion, however it’s being misconstrued, for my part, deliberately misconstrued that I stated that the mother and the son can say who get the cash and who don’t get the cash.”
In only a few brief hours, Lee’s video speaking concerning the Sweetly Seasoned ordeal hit greater than 8 million views. Lee’s followers are right here for justice and left tons of feedback concerning the scenario.
“He injury controls nicely.. with nice energy comes nice accountability. Please don’t cease being you,🤍” wrote one viewer. “They blocked their blessing and that’s it! You probably did your job and your intention was understood by everyone however them,” stated one other.
