He ate 15 plates with a spare fork and was thrown away before ordering eight more | the Chronicle

João Carlos Aplonio, a painter located in São Paulo, has become a viral phenomenon due to his great appetite. The worker ate 15 pasta dishes, several stuffed with cheese, before being removed from the restaurant by management when the owners learned that I planned to eat eight more dishes. The video of her complaint at the restaurant has gone viral and is touring the world.

His 15 minutes of fame began when Apolonio was looking for a place to stop for lunch after hard hours of work. “I was looking for the cheapest place to have lunch. When I saw this place that offered pasta dishes to taste for 19.90“, the painter told local media.

Unlimited pasta & Coxinhas Ragazzo This was the place that received it and, taking advantage of the free fork promotion, Apolonio started his lunch with an order of 10 courses. “To begin with, they sent me five lasagna, three gnocchi and two noodles“He called back. The waiter who served the worker, doubting his appetite, reminded him that if he didn’t finish his meal he had to pay. a fine of 9.90 reais.

“You can be sure that you will pay me to stop eatingApollonius answered the waiter. And so it was. After lowering the first ten plates, the painter decided he had room for more, and ordered a new batch of pasta: three plates of stuffed gnocchi and two of noodles.

Surprised, the cooks decided load the dishes to the limit, to give him the final blow and make him retire without any problem. “When they arrived with one of these plates, I said: this one was full, eh?“said the painter, attentive. But even the XL portions could not with Apolonio, who ate all the pasta without a problem.

With 15 dishes in his stomach, the worker was still not satisfied. Call back the waiter instead of asking for the bill ordered eight more dishes: four lasagna and four portions of gnocchi. “The waiter looked at me with wide eyes and I clarified that with this last order I was already finishing and I was not going to continue because I had eaten eight muffins in the morning“, he commented amused.

When the waiter approached the kitchen, Apolonio noticed strange movements among the restaurant staff. Suddenly, the owner of the place He walked over to the restaurant table. “Please would you accept a proposal? You don’t have to go, we don’t force you, but if you leave now, we will refund the money to you and you will not have to pay anything“Apolonio remembered the headmaster telling him.

Indignant by the behavior of the local, which in his eyes did not respect his policy of free titular, the painter recorded her complaint in a TikTok video: “I make this video to show that it’s not done, no. I just got kicked out of a restaurant. The guy said that they won’t take care of me anymore. So I keep it in my memory», He explained, showing the 15 dishes he had just eaten:

The clip quickly went viral, reaching Facebook, Instagram and finally attract the attention of the local media. Such was the amplification of the case that the pasta restaurant decided to make a public statement referring to the incident, assuring that they had never fired the worker and his video “it was nothing more than content production for private social networks client“.

Ensure that the all-you-can-eat promotion will remain available as stated in their official rules, and let you resolve the issue. they invited the painter 35 plates full of pasta. “It’s the result of letting me eat what I wantApolonio joked. Taking advantage of the press behind the episode, the line of pasta restaurants launched the ‘Ragazzo Challenge’, challenging their guests to surpass the 35 dishes of Apolonio:

This isn’t the first time he’s been kicked out of a restaurant

Apollonio’s case went viral, and in one of the many interviews he starred in, the painter answered the question many had in mind: How did he eat 15 plates of pasta? “I work on construction sites, I am a painter and I eat a lot because I spend a lot of energy“, clarified the worker.

Apolinio also mentioned that the episode with the pasta restaurant was not the first time he was asked to leave a restaurant for overeating: “The first time was in a bakery and anyone who ate a 1 kg coxinha would not pay. I ate one and asked for anotherHe recalled. Similar to the pasta shop, the bakery asked Apollonius to withdraw when he tried to ask for a third.