Dave Portnoy’s public feud with a pizza store proprietor is proving that there isn’t any such factor as dangerous press.
Earlier this month, the Barstool Sports activities founder dubbed Dragon Pizza in Somerville, Massachusetts, “the worst pizza place in America” after his pizza evaluate was interrupted and slammed by store proprietor Charlie Redd in a now-viral video. Nonetheless, the extraordinary clip hasn’t harm gross sales for the pizza joint.
“Dave, get pleasure from your pizza as any buyer, however I do not recognize what you do coming in and judging a enterprise with one chew,” Redd mentioned throughout the evaluate. “I hope you get pleasure from your pizza, however I do not recognize what you do to small companies.”
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Portnoy, who evaluations pizza across the nation for his “One Chew Pizza Evaluate” sequence, refuted the assertion and referred to as Dragon Pizza “trash.” Regardless of the viral spat, the store claims to be promoting out of meals within the wake of the controversy.
To maintain up with the brand new demand, Dragon Pizza needed to shut for a day to organize after promoting out a number of days in a row, based on the store’s Instagram.
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Whereas the evaluate proved to be useful to the enterprise, the store proprietor remains to be at odds with Portnoy.
“However I do not need to give him credit score for complicating my life,” Redd mentioned about Portnoy to Boston.com. “We’re working our pizza store, and everyone seems to be blissful. I am receiving dying threats. I’ve acquired threats at my dwelling. I am receiving tons of all types of various assaults in many alternative methods.”