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I cannot believe you think this is cute. This is cruelty to animals. Squirrels are not supposed to eat french fries and hot chocolate, and they are not supposed to be that fat. This is disgusting. I stay away from Shake Shack specifically because of these aggressive, overfed beasts.

I cannot believe anyone thinks this sick, obese animal is cute. Those squirrels are terrors. The only time I ever went to Shake Shack, I was literally chased out of the park by a pack of deranged squirrels after my burger. They are aggressive from too many stupid humans feeding them greasy food.

We are serious pierogie eaters in Pittsburgh and Mrs. T's work just fine.

But is this a good thing? You left Le Cirque this time with a better impression of the restaurant and the Maccioni family because they treated you like a celebrity, but they only did that because you embarassed them the first time and because they now know that people read your blog. If they really cared about anonymous customers, you would have been treated well to begin with.

The free meal demonstrates the power of blogging, but it doesn't get the Le Cirque staff off the hook for being jerks. I doubt they treated every customer so well that night, and someone will always have to take the loser table. We can either support these places or not. If I get an invitation to a free meal in response to a bad review, I just ignore it. Let the restaurant prove itself to new customers.