Percy & Willie’s in Florence, SC Goes Viral For Kicking Out Food Critic
FLORENCE, SC – A food review at the newly reopened Percy & Willie’s in Florence, South Carolina, turned into absolute mayhem when food critic Ben A Critic claims the owner and manager repeatedly touched, leaned on and pushed him — even after he begged them to stop “30,000 times.”
The confrontation, captured that’s now exploding across social media, shows the tiny reviewer (who says he only weighs “100 something pounds”) screaming “Don’t touch me!” as larger white men surround him inside the popular Florence restaurant at 130 Dunbarton Drive.
Ben, known for his no-holds-barred restaurant review videos, walked into Percy & Willie’s Food and Spirits just wanting to try the baby back ribs and give his honest take. He ordered, filmed the “pretty clean” restroom, and was vibing — until the manager suddenly demanded he come to the front door.
“I’m the manager. Please come to the front door,” the man says in the clip.
Ben asks why. That’s when everything escalated.
“We don’t allow videoing in here,” the manager tells him, demanding he leave immediately.
Ben says back that he would have stopped filming instantly if they had just asked nicely:
“All you had to say is no video and I would have stopped videoing. Why would you have to kick me out?”
But instead of a calm conversation, Ben says the owner and manager started touching and pushing him with their bodies. In the video he narrates:
“This right here, a picture of the owner of Percy and Willies grabbing on me after I asked him not to touch me 30,000 times. Him and the manager got a touching problem… Look at him leaning on me, pushing me with his stomach.”
He adds:
“I felt very uncomfortable in this situation. I was surrounded by a lot of angry men and they all had pocket knives. Not to mention, they kept touching me.”
Things got even wilder when the owner allegedly called the police and claimed Ben assaulted him.
“Did y’all just hear the owner of Percy and Willies lying to the police? Ain’t nobody assault you, boy… That’s how innocent people get locked up right there. If I didn’t have my own evidence, he would have swore up and down I hit him,” Ben Acritic said.
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