Otaola reacciona al escándalo del influencer y el chef en México

The winner of "La Casa de los Famosos" (The House of the Famous) was the victim of an alleged scam at a Mexico City restaurant. After being recognized as an influencer by the establishment's chef, he was offered a special experience that resulted in a bill of 36,195 pesos, as the content creator himself reported on social media on July 3, 2026, prompting an immediate reaction from television host Alex Otaola. According to the influencer's account, the chef of the restaurant—identified as "del Norset" in Mexico City—approached his table after recognizing him as a public figure, offered to take him to choose his cut of meat, and told him, "Order whatever you want, the meat's on me." The winner of "La Casa de los Famosos" opted for a gold-plated steak, a silver-plated steak, a bronze-plated steak, and several additional cuts. When it came time to pay, the total bill reached several thousand pesos. After the influencer posted his complaint on social media, the chef wrote to him in a friendly tone, saying, "Nice to meet you, man. Eh, good inspiration for you," which Otaola interpreted as a belated attempt to improve the establishment's image. Otaola emphasized that the case illustrates a modus operandi documented in several Mexico City restaurants: waiters or chefs approach tables of regular customers or tourists, offer to bring the meat and let the diner choose, and then charge 17,000 or 18,000 pesos for a single cut. The presenter warned his followers that if they visit restaurants in Mexico City where staff approach them with this offer, they should not accept and should immediately reject the gesture to avoid unpleasant surprises at the end of the meal. The Cuban presenter also criticized the chef's behavior when he tried to contact the influencer after the public complaint, pointing out that the attitude reflects a double standard: appearing generous in the content creator's video and then charging the full amount of an inflated bill. According to Otaola, this marketing strategy at the customer's expense puts the reputation of diners who visit these establishments in good faith at risk. The case exposes the vulnerability of content creators when their fame becomes an unconsensual marketing tool used by businesses seeking visibility on social media. As the influencer's video accumulates millions of views, the "Norset" restaurant is likely to face further public repercussions, and the discussion about overcharging in Mexico City establishments is likely to intensify on digital platforms. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 OPEN THE DEBATE — YOUR OPINION MATTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👇 Did the chef act in bad faith? Should the influencer be charged after being offered free meat, or should the winner of Celebrity House have requested written confirmation before ordering? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 DON'T MISS THE NEXT LIVE SHOW ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ SUBSCRIBE now → https://linktw.in/YBoeWQ 🔔 Turn on notifications (all alerts) to receive alerts when we go LIVE. Without this, YouTube won't notify you. Don't miss out! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 FOLLOW US ON ALL CHANNELS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔴 Live Shows and Breaking News Cuba → https://linktw.in/YBoeWQ 📰 Analysis, opinion, and Cubans in the U.S. → https://linktw.in/PkUqrV 💃 Cuban and international entertainment →    / @faranduladecuba   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #CubansAroundTheWorld #cuba #alexotaola