Social media foodies are getting ridiculous. The New York Post recently ran a story about a Thai restaurant that has such amazing chicken wings people are tweeting and bragging about waiting three hours in line for them.
For those interested the restaurant is Pok Pok and it's located in Brooklyn near the waterfront. Here's an excerpt with the facts,
They were the lucky ones. Wu's crew got inside the cult restaurant's doors in the first wave. The less prepared? They were left with wait times of up to two hours to eat the restaurant's acclaimed chicken wings.
Holy Crap
Here's Pok Pok's website where they insist they love you, but make it abundantly clear you're not getting past the wait time. No delivery, no love, and no online fancy stuff. I do appreciate the sternness for the social media foodies community.
Three hour rate times aren't necessarily news worthy depending on the place in question, but the Instagram followers and Twitter titans of the world are now not just snapping pictures of the food; they're snapping pictures of the lines.
The restaurant has a Twitter that is actually pretty great where it takes photos of entrees and shares them. Not the most original strategy, but the pictures are incredibly well done - and they're interacting with fans. Thumbs up here.
Their Facebook fans aren't very exciting, but Facebook isn't normally where the foodies reside. If Pok Pok were to get a Pinterest they could probably generate even more of a viral buzz for those chicken wings.