Blogger fined $3,400 for negative restaurant reviews! Print
Monday, 14 July 2014 17:10

Eater.com -  A food blogger in France has been fined 1500 euros ($2,040 USD) for writing a negative review of a restaurant. According to Arret Sur Images(translated), Caroline Doudet wrote an unflattering review of Il Giardino, an Italian restaurant in Cap-Ferret, France in August of 2013 on her blog Les Chroniques Culturelles. She was brought to court six months later by the restaurant.

In the review (cached and translated), Doudet wrote that people should avoid the restaurant and that the boss is a "diva." The team behind the restaurant believe that the "article was more of an insult" than a critique.Sud Ouest reports (translated) that the lawyer for the restaurant claims that the post caused "great harm" to his client because when the restaurant was Googled, the negative review was one of the first results. Continue.