Arizona bakery Facebook meltdown, Arizona bakery Amy’s Baking Company(owners Samy and Amy Bouzagl), made an appearance on Gordon Ramsay’s “Kitchen Nightmares,”
The Chef walked out of the program claiming it is difficult to work
with them. The restaurant is in Scottsdale, Arizona. The owners finally
revealed that they were reselling cakes made by other bakeries &
also were criticized for the way they handled customers. Finally , they
took to brand’s Facebook page to defended themselves about their actions.
This later on snowballed into a major Facebook meltdown with nasty
comments. Also a social media shaming campaign began on Reddit &
yelp resulting in one star reviews for the company. Here is the Reddit link to
epic meltdown. This clearly shows how social media is shaping the
real-time conversation about brands. Also companies should have
strategies in place to deal with the negative publicity. They finally
declared that their fb, twitter & website accounts have been hacked.
