A woman named Allison Matsu is pretty upset after she was kicked out of Down House restaurant in Houston after tweeting @ them that the waiter was a “twerp” and adding the hashtag “jerkoff”. After going back and forth with the restaurant’s manager Forrest DeSpain who was at home checking the restaurant’s Twitter account Allison was eventually handed the phone by a bartender. When she refused to delete the tweet or post a more favorable one, Allison was eventually told to leave by the manager and tweeted that she was leaving the restaurant in tears.
Below you can see some recent tweets between her and Bobby Heugel the guy she was actually defending when all of this happened.
We’re siding with Allison, but read her account of the incident after the jump and let us know what you think.
Houston Press
My friend and I went to BRC and they were closing after we had a beer, so we went to Down House after. I’d been there once before and it was a cool place. Probably within a few minutes of sitting down, we see a guy behind the bar talking to two other guys — all three work there.
The guy behind the bar — and I wasn’t exactly clear on what he was saying — was saying something derogatory about Bobby [Heugel]. I don’t think a place like Down House would be up and running without a guy like Bobby Heugel. Here’s a guy making things in beakers and flasks and he’s making fun of Bobby. He looked like he was about 16, so I called him a twerp [on Twitter].
I ended up having a great conversation with the guy behind the bar. We were having a great time, had another beer. Thirty minutes later, we’d all engaged in conversation, the bartenders had looked at pictures on my friend’s phone of her vacation, it was a dead night — and all of a sudden the phone rings.
Jeremy picks up the phone and all I hear is, “The blonde or the brunette?” He hands me the phone and says, “It’s for you.” My initial thought is that it’s [Chris] Cusack, the guy who owns the bar, who started following me a long time ago. He’s the one that usually handles the Twitter account from what I’ve been aware of.
As soon as [Forrest DeSpain] got on the phone, he started yelling. He paints a different story — that he was stern but politely asked me to apologize or leave the establishment — but he was extremely angry from the get-go, saying that I was eavesdropping on a conversation between employees. When someone starts yelling at me, I shut down. Most of it’s a blank after that. I was just thinking, “What the hell is going on? What just happened?” [DeSpain] is yelling at me and telling me I need to leave. I don’t even know how long the conversation lasted. I didn’t get a word in edgewise. He yelled, “You don’t interrupt me.”
I do remember the last thing he said was, “You need to get your ass up and leave the establishment. Your time is done there.” I handed the phone back to Jeremy and said I just got kicked out.






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Who are these people? I don’t recognize any of the names…….should I?
Damn! They had to be from Houston smh.
I would have horked a pat right to the floor and yelled this place sucks.. or yell that the place has roaches. I would have made everybody look bad. But I am a little though.
Crazy! i mean, that’s the owners choice… but i would have had to be escorted out by the police lol Fuck a tweet, watch this
Lmao at you twitter people. tweeting every single move you make. How fuckin’ stupid is that. Glad I’m not on of those twitter addicts.
stamp
anybody who criticizes the owner, waitstaff, or bartender of an establishment WHILE STILL THERE (and presumably still ordering stuff) is a fucking idiot.
The owner of the restaurant is really stupid and I hope it hurts his business!