RHONY alum Jill Zarin has come under fire after posting a video about her experience at celebrity chef Alain Ducasse’s restaurant in Japan. The 62-year-old TV personality criticized her experience after apparently misreading a sign.
RHONY alum Jill Zarin is facing major backlash over a restaurant complaint in Japan
In a now-deleted post, Jill shared a video, “Okay, I finally have something to complain about. I’m in a department store at an Alain Ducasse little post thing. I want to show you this, okay?”
She then revealed two ice cream flavors, each matched with a coordinating cone. The chocolate came in a chocolate cone, while the vanilla was served in a vanilla cone. She said, “I asked them if I could have a chocolate ice cream in this [vanilla] cone … She said no. I said, ‘Why not?’ No reason, just because. So, my girlfriend got vanilla in the [vanilla] cone, and she says, ‘You know, I don’t mind. I wouldn’t mind the chocolate cone. Just swap them out.’ The answer was [still] no.”
Jill suggested that the issue could be a Japan-specific practice or something related to Alain Ducasse. She said she planned to tag the celebrity chef and ask why his staff could not accommodate her request. Jill pointed to the sign, which said customers could have their ice cream served in “a cone or a cup of your choice,” and explained that she chose chocolate ice cream in a vanilla cone.
But according to a photo posted by Mr Marcus White on Instagram, the sign reads, “a cone or a cup, your choice,” rather than “a cone or a cup of your choice.” Netizens did not hold back, taking aim at Jill over her complaint. One of them wrote on Reddit, “If she’s in Japan, and I lived there for a few years, YOU DO NOT ask to modify items on a menu. No one will tell you why. It’s simply not done. If you go to a nice enough restaurant, they will gladly prepare something special for you, but they will tell you how it will be prepared and not the other way around.”
An individual said the issue was not that serious because it was “just ice cream.” However, they pointed out that top chefs create specific flavor profiles and that customers pay more for the ice cream because of the chef behind it. They added that anyone who did not want the chef’s creation could simply go somewhere else. Another wrote, “I finally have something to complain about speaks volumes about who is always the problem…Jill.”
Originally reported by Meenakshi Sengupta for Mandatory
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