10/03/2026
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Today we had a very unpleasant experience with a salesperson who came to our restaurant.
He first visited us two days ago with a marketing/processing business proposal. We were in the middle of our shift, but I gave him two minutes to explain what he was offering. At the end, I told him clearly that I was willing to review the information, but asked him to send me an email with the details so we could look everything over and make a decision. No email ever arrived.
This morning, around 9:00 AM, he showed up again and asked for another two minutes. At that time, we were preparing food and doing our prep for the day. We don’t open to the public until 11:00 AM, so I explained that we were busy and could not stop what we were doing.
He responded, “Who do you serve? I don’t see anybody here.”
I explained again that we were not open yet and were preparing food. He continued insisting that he wanted to show me something. I asked him whether he had sent the email we had agreed on. He said no, because he wanted to show me something in person.
I told him that I genuinely didn’t have time and asked him again to send the information by email. He then asked if he had done something wrong. I told him honestly that yes—he had agreed to send the information and never did.
Instead of respecting that, he continued arguing that nobody was there and asking why I couldn’t give him two minutes. At that point, he had already taken considerably more than two minutes of my time, so I told him we were done and closed the kitchen door.
He then began yelling from outside, “You don’t want to make money! You don’t want to make money! I’m going to go see your competitors!”
At that point, I went outside and asked for his business credentials and his name. He refused to provide them.
Interestingly, about 20 minutes later, he left a one-star Google review for our restaurant—using the same name we later found through his online profile.
We did some research and found information connecting him to payment-processing/merchant services companies. We also attempted to verify another company he claimed to be associated with, but we were unable to locate an actual business at the listed Corpus Christi location.
I cannot say what his actual business situation is, and I’m not accusing anyone of criminal activity. But based on our experience, I would strongly recommend that other local business owners do their own research and verify who they are dealing with before entering into any agreement.
What concerns me most is the one-star review immediately following our refusal to do business with him. If someone approaches your business and you politely decline, that should not turn into retaliation through a public review.
And to the salesperson: if you happen to see this, this is what happens when you walk into a small business during food preparation, ignore a reasonable request to send information by email, refuse to identify yourself when asked, become confrontational after being told no, and then leave a one-star review because the owner wouldn’t stop working to listen to your pitch.
Respect goes both ways.
