It looks like Jimmy Fallon went to pizzeria Posto with his family last night and was asked to leave. The drama unfolded on Twitter.
I've tried to piece together the saga by reading Fallon's tweets and the conversation between him and his Twitter followers.
A few notes before you start reading:
For those not versed in the twitspeak, the "@username" convention is how tweeters designate that they're talking to a specific Twitter user
For experience tweeters, note that this reconstructed conversation runs chronologically (or as close to it as I could get) in ascending order, i.e., earliest at top. It's the reverse of what you're used to but is easier to relate the story that way
The conversation is reconstructed from various sources. I've included as many participating voices as possible to arrive at some sort of context. Because of the somewhat asynchronous nature of Twitter, at times various tweets may be referring to something other than Fallon's pizza situation
Another more important note: Twitter obviously gives a murky window on to what actually happened. Fallon at one point urges a boycott but then takes it back. I like Posto and its sister pizzerias and would urge you not to boycott as well.
The Posto Twitroversy
jimmyfallon: actually asked to leave a pizza place today
jimmyfallon: Posto on 2nd (they also own Gruppo and Vezzo)
jimmyfallon: carb face carol rude to my 2 year old niece and an 11 month old (sleeping) because they heard i didnt like the pizza there.
jimmyfallon: I have never ever EVER reviewed Posto. Carb face Carol and owners Jonathan Tweedy and Antonio Gomez should be ashamed. not cool.
fullofgiggles: @jimmyfallon let's all order a ton of pizza's there, and in about half an hour, call them and cancel them to say we don't like their pizza!
jimmyfallon: @FullofGiggles don't bother. this girl's smiling face is stuck in my memory. (i actually like the pizza there!) fools!
jimmyfallon: @EnriqueH73 I just looked and they grabbed some quote off of New York online and thought i di not like the pizza. [Link added. —The Mgmt.]
jimmyfallon: dudes. no joke. i actually like that pizza!
jimmyfallon: i actually hope that you choose to never go to Posto, Gruppo or Vezzo. that girl was laughing at us, telling us to leave.
fullofgiggles: @jimmyfallon hard to enjoy their pizza now with their attitude. If they'd heard you didn't like it, they should've been happy you were there
jimmyfallon: @FullofGiggles true that. it just shows... not a classy move. sorry for going off...
DrRandPink: @jimmyfallon- thanks for making us laugh this week - send me your bar tab or go to Momofuku - tell Chang Dr Pink is picking up the tweetbill
jimmyfallon: @DrRandPink @DomainMaximus i love momofuku
DomainMaximus: @jimmyfallon I will make sure to pass that on during any conventions I attend in NYC when restaurants come into discussion.
DaveEsq: @jimmyfallon They mess with the Fallon, they're messing with family. No Mas. Adiós pizza Nazis!
jimmyfallon: @DaveEsq Don't mess with the Fallon Family
DaveEsq: @jimmyfallon Exactly brother! Like the Godfather family -- only less bloodthirsty, goofier and of equally questionable moral character. :>
jimmyfallon: @hazelrabun so sad. sorry about that.
jimmyfallon: @TheSavage13 Spunto too. i have actually never said that quote.
jimmyfallon: in that pizza tasing - i actually said - that Posto is good. they shouldn't be in this competition because the pizza is thin (cracker like)
jimmyfallon: i'm sorry. i am venting. don't boycott. don't hate. i just have never been thrown out of a restaurant.
DaveEsq: @jimmyfallon Dude. You're too nice. Throwing you out with kids while laughing is more than enough reason to rant. Peep need 2 know @ jerks.
i hate hearing about restaurant slights online because there are always two sides to the story and commenting online usually causes people to engage in hyperbole. but if this is true, sure, terrible business practice. not too familiar with mr. fallon outside of his SNL work but he seems to genuinely love pizza (which gives him an a+ in my book) and i'd politely steer him to company, motorino and una pizza for his future slice chomping endeavors.
Restaurant slights are a great way to inform people of your disgust for a place. Yesterday on my site, one of my long time readers was asked to leave a local place here in Boca Raton, cause he previously left a negative comment. People need an open place to vent! Good for Jimmy
I think that restaurant should be boycotted if they did treat Fallon badly. We register our votes for things we like and don't like by doing that.
My first question would be for the idiots who work there and can't resolve this simple logical question: WHY would Fallon be eating there if he didn't like it?
Even if it WERE true that Fallon didn't like it, WHY WOULD YOU INSULT A MAN WITH A NATIONAL NETWORK TV TALK SHOW?!?!?
It's low class, it's bad service, and it's bad for business.
I like Jimmy Fallon. But I'm taking this with a grain of salt because there are 2 sides of every story and it's just a long twitter rant. This might actually be good for business because now thousands of people actually know about the place and have some kind of interest in it (whether good or bad, all the same).
As if a successful restaurant would throw out a celebrity for no reason. This is the Fallon quote in New York magazine: "I think they use a blow dryer on the cheese. That would be the best Ritz cracker pizza. I assume they have a place named Crusto? I bet they have a stack of these ready to cook." See his review: http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/03/pizza_tour.html#photo=1
On Twitter, Fallon claims he never said that. Either way, his name is on it so you can’t blame the owners for taking offense. The food is delicious and his review calls it blow-dried Ritz crackers. He and his little cadre gave Spunto the lowest rating. He thinks he can badmouth them in New York magazine but they should treat him like Little Lord Fauntleroy when he graces them with his presence. Where is he from? New Yorkers understand that if you dish it out you gotta be able to take it. Obviously the food is good or he wouldn’t keep eating it. (He was a regular customer at Posto.) If writing a bad review were not mean enough, he inflicts further damage to them---he twitters his 588,916 followers to boycott all of their restaurants and he says that the owners should be ashamed. No, he should be ashamed. He says: “I have never ever EVER reviewed Posto.” (Liars always overdo it. ;-) He is technically correct and intentionally misleading. He should be a Congressman. The review above was for Spunto---owned by the same guys, serving the same pizza as Posto. So, would it have been OK with him if they kicked him out of Spunto instead of Posto? And sinking even lower, he continued belittling the waitress on Twitter, referring to her as "carb faced carol." She was just doing what her boss told her to do. (Why does he eat pizza all the time if he is anti-carb? Are proteins and fats superior? Is Fathead Fallon superior to Carb-Face Carol?) He then accuses Carol of being rude to his 11-month-old sleeping baby. How can you be rude to a sleeping baby? What did she say? “I am laughing at you and I am laughing at that comatose little shrimp in the stroller too!” Well, someone who was there said that when Fathead Fallon was asked to leave, he had a tantrum---cursing and insulting the waitress. If her response was to laugh at him---good for her. He can be sure a lot more people are laughing at him now. ;-) If he doesn’t want to be laughed at he shouldn’t have tantrums in public places and he definitely shouldn’t complain to 588,916 about being laughed at by a waitress. If he wrote the review he should accept the consequences and stop being such a weasel. If he didn’t, then he should write a retraction. You don’t attack the people you wronged, you apologize. You make it right. Moral of the story: Never bite the hand that feeds you and if you do, don’t complain when they stop feeding you and start laughing at you.
Fallon and Horatio Sands beat up a man twenty years older than either one of them in Peter McManus a couple of years ago after he objected to them pouring beer in his hat. They proceeded to kick him once he was down. Urging a boycott seems somewhat mild for this asshat.
There is something about parents of little kids these days, especially famous ones....where do they get off? Acting like the world revolves around them....J Fallon is annoying. Why doesn't he go eat in a restaurant that Antonio doesn't own? He's the one with a doughy carb face. Get a freakin' life, loser.
Those pizza restaurants are among the best ones in NYC. The owner does it right and everyone loves them. Fallon should fall off...I think he is falling off.
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That's insane business practices. You insult and kick out a person with his own late night show on NBC because of some perceived slight?
You might as well close your doors now.
Mooner at 6:16PM on 04/05/09
i hate hearing about restaurant slights online because there are always two sides to the story and commenting online usually causes people to engage in hyperbole. but if this is true, sure, terrible business practice. not too familiar with mr. fallon outside of his SNL work but he seems to genuinely love pizza (which gives him an a+ in my book) and i'd politely steer him to company, motorino and una pizza for his future slice chomping endeavors.
santoslhalper at 8:02PM on 04/05/09
Restaurant slights are a great way to inform people of your disgust for a place. Yesterday on my site, one of my long time readers was asked to leave a local place here in Boca Raton, cause he previously left a negative comment. People need an open place to vent! Good for Jimmy
pizzaexpert at 9:23AM on 04/06/09
I'm not so sure about them submitting to the Grim Shutter just yet, Mooner. The are 573,362 of Jimmy's Twitter followers who now know who they are.
Ciao,
Paulie Gee
pauliegee at 12:07PM on 04/06/09
I think that restaurant should be boycotted if they did treat Fallon badly. We register our votes for things we like and don't like by doing that.
My first question would be for the idiots who work there and can't resolve this simple logical question: WHY would Fallon be eating there if he didn't like it?
Even if it WERE true that Fallon didn't like it, WHY WOULD YOU INSULT A MAN WITH A NATIONAL NETWORK TV TALK SHOW?!?!?
It's low class, it's bad service, and it's bad for business.
Ricardus at 1:52PM on 04/06/09
I like Jimmy Fallon. But I'm taking this with a grain of salt because there are 2 sides of every story and it's just a long twitter rant. This might actually be good for business because now thousands of people actually know about the place and have some kind of interest in it (whether good or bad, all the same).
Sakura at 6:25PM on 04/06/09
But they know it in a BAD way. I'm sorry, but to quote Seinfeld "That can't be good for business"
Mooner at 10:39PM on 04/06/09
i've got a grand total of twenty bucks to my name and i fully intend to spend it all at posto tomorrow. jimmy fallon is a fuckin hack
captain_walker at 2:48AM on 04/07/09
As if a successful restaurant would throw out a celebrity for no reason. This is the Fallon quote in New York magazine: "I think they use a blow dryer on the cheese. That would be the best Ritz cracker pizza. I assume they have a place named Crusto? I bet they have a stack of these ready to cook." See his review: http://nymag.com/daily/food/2009/03/pizza_tour.html#photo=1
On Twitter, Fallon claims he never said that. Either way, his name is on it so you can’t blame the owners for taking offense. The food is delicious and his review calls it blow-dried Ritz crackers. He and his little cadre gave Spunto the lowest rating. He thinks he can badmouth them in New York magazine but they should treat him like Little Lord Fauntleroy when he graces them with his presence. Where is he from? New Yorkers understand that if you dish it out you gotta be able to take it. Obviously the food is good or he wouldn’t keep eating it. (He was a regular customer at Posto.) If writing a bad review were not mean enough, he inflicts further damage to them---he twitters his 588,916 followers to boycott all of their restaurants and he says that the owners should be ashamed. No, he should be ashamed. He says: “I have never ever EVER reviewed Posto.” (Liars always overdo it. ;-) He is technically correct and intentionally misleading. He should be a Congressman. The review above was for Spunto---owned by the same guys, serving the same pizza as Posto. So, would it have been OK with him if they kicked him out of Spunto instead of Posto? And sinking even lower, he continued belittling the waitress on Twitter, referring to her as "carb faced carol." She was just doing what her boss told her to do. (Why does he eat pizza all the time if he is anti-carb? Are proteins and fats superior? Is Fathead Fallon superior to Carb-Face Carol?) He then accuses Carol of being rude to his 11-month-old sleeping baby. How can you be rude to a sleeping baby? What did she say? “I am laughing at you and I am laughing at that comatose little shrimp in the stroller too!” Well, someone who was there said that when Fathead Fallon was asked to leave, he had a tantrum---cursing and insulting the waitress. If her response was to laugh at him---good for her. He can be sure a lot more people are laughing at him now. ;-) If he doesn’t want to be laughed at he shouldn’t have tantrums in public places and he definitely shouldn’t complain to 588,916 about being laughed at by a waitress. If he wrote the review he should accept the consequences and stop being such a weasel. If he didn’t, then he should write a retraction. You don’t attack the people you wronged, you apologize. You make it right. Moral of the story: Never bite the hand that feeds you and if you do, don’t complain when they stop feeding you and start laughing at you.
ebidie at 2:01AM on 04/08/09
Fallon and Horatio Sands beat up a man twenty years older than either one of them in Peter McManus a couple of years ago after he objected to them pouring beer in his hat. They proceeded to kick him once he was down. Urging a boycott seems somewhat mild for this asshat.
jakeyd at 3:35PM on 04/08/09
There is something about parents of little kids these days, especially famous ones....where do they get off? Acting like the world revolves around them....J Fallon is annoying. Why doesn't he go eat in a restaurant that Antonio doesn't own? He's the one with a doughy carb face. Get a freakin' life, loser.
surfmomtp at 6:24PM on 04/08/09
Those pizza restaurants are among the best ones in NYC. The owner does it right and everyone loves them. Fallon should fall off...I think he is falling off.
surfmomtp at 6:27PM on 04/08/09
Still no excuse for a business to be dicks about it.
Mooner at 10:10PM on 04/10/09