ccnewspaper.com Todd Elliot Threatened bad PR for our restaurant if we didn't give him and his family free dinner on the spot Internet

 I thought I was done responding to this man's nonsense but then he contacted the restaurant I work at and wanted an apology from me and wanted us to remove this report. I'm wondering why he's just now responding to this report almost a year later. He also repeatedly sent me emails after the incident in my restaurant in which he was very insulting. I would just like to remind him that I have all of our communication via email in which he does threaten negative pr. I also have the email in which I tell him I'll get back to him the next day. I have no problem mentioning that I work at Mountain top cafe, my omission of that was never intentional, I knew that HE knew which restaurant he was at. Mr. Elliot just needs to say the word and I can prove that his response here is not the truth.

 I wish Mr. Elliot would just tell the truth here. I'm sure he has had many mutual agreements on free stuff for good pr. I would never trust any of these reviews in his publication that were obtained this way because in essence he's being paid to say something nice. I wonder if he's ever received complimentary food that he didn't like and still wrote a positive review? In any case he keeps repeating the same false representation of the incident with our restaurant. He was NOT confirmed to be "hosted" with his family for dinner and was rude to everyone involved. He also in fact stated that he was just going back home to LA if we couldn't get an answer and instead went in the opposite direction some miles to review another restaurant in our area that I assume fed his family for free in exchange for a positive review. He did in fact promise bad pr in front of several people in which he would mention how rude our chef was for asking him to leave. He then did follow through and left an untrue bad review on yelp. The last thing I have to say on this matter is the fact that he didn't just stay and have dinner with his family with or without a review or wait a few minutes for the owner speaks volumes. We have paying customers every day who give us positive pr and we don't need "help" from some obscure online publication. I'm done responding to his misrepresentation of what happened and just want to spare others the same unpleasant experience we had in our dealings with him. Others should take the reviews in his publication for what most if not all of them appear to be-paid advertisement.

 I wish Mr. Elliot would just tell the truth here. I'm sure he has had many mutual agreements on free stuff for good pr. I would never trust any of these reviews in his publication that were obtained this way because in essence he's being paid to say something nice. I wonder if he's ever received complimentary food that he didn't like and still wrote a positive review? In any case he keeps repeating the same false representation of the incident with our restaurant. He was NOT confirmed to be "hosted" with his family for dinner and was rude to everyone involved. He also in fact stated that he was just going back home to LA if we couldn't get an answer and instead went in the opposite direction some miles to review another restaurant in our area that I assume fed his family for free in exchange for a positive review. He did in fact promise bad pr in front of several people in which he would mention how rude our chef was for asking him to leave. He then did follow through and left an untrue bad review on yelp. The last thing I have to say on this matter is the fact that he didn't just stay and have dinner with his family with or without a review or wait a few minutes for the owner speaks volumes. We have paying customers every day who give us positive pr and we don't need "help" from some obscure online publication. I'm done responding to his misrepresentation of what happened and just want to spare others the same unpleasant experience we had in our dealings with him. Others should take the reviews in his publication for what most if not all of them appear to be-paid advertisement.

When I was contacted by this owner via email and agreed to host him for dinner he made it clear that this was contigent on him dining for free. I also asked him for how many people and he said for four people ie. his wife and children.

I then informed him I would have to confirm that with the owner and would get back to him. I forgot about it until he showed up in person and started harrassing me and the owner's friend to call the owner and find out right at that point in time.

Even after calling the owner and being informed that she was on her way back to the restaurant and would let him know when she returned he still wanted us to call her back while she was driving to answer yes or no right then or he was leaving.

When he was told that he would have to wait for her and it shouldn't take long but we wouldn't call her back he threatened bad pr and then the chef came out and told him to leave. He did indeed follow through on giving the restaurant a bad, untrue review on Yelp.

To set the record straight, our publication has been in business since 1999.  This is the FIRST and ONLY negative review I have ever received personally with our publication.  If anyone wants to check out our publication online for accuracy, please do so as we aim to provide positive publicity and have thousands of past articles and stories to show.  We provide preview and reviews and our goal is to help and provide positive publicity.  We post PR on certain events we don't even cover many times and our reputation speaks for itself.

So this one person, whoever they are, had to make up a story because they were having a bad day or has an ego for messing up is sad to hear and read this mis-representation.  I did reach out to this restaurant to provide some PR on our media travel feature out to this area about a week before.  We cover places if it is a good fit for our publication or if they were suggested.  Sometimes we are compensated or treated and other times not.   By no means do we ever abuse or obligate anyone.  Restaurants can turn us down anytime or set certain parameters as it is their place.

However, this restaurant (The Mountain Top Cafe as this person couldn't even write in the name of their own place so that has to tell you something) invited us to a hosted meal to write about them.  Once again, I have never theatened to post negative PR in my life if a restaurant or owner is not willing to participate in our article.  That is their perogative.  However, this place confirmed us and then changed their mind when we arrived asking us to sit and wait for the owner.  They never told us the owner was coming in 10 minutes or we would have been happy to wait.  

They were not professional and we were happy to just have a bite and eat before the chef named Frank was so rude to us, that we felt uncomfortable and decided to leave.  I feel like it was a misunderstanding but by no means should anyone or any place be rude to a customer let alone a writer.     We were trying to help this little mom and pop place so it is unfortunate that some worker (not even the owner) decided to make up a false story and report it here.