F--k the locals': Calif. restaurant owner apologizes for video criticizing San Luis Obispo

‘F—k the locals’: Calif. restaurant owner apologizes for video criticizing San Luis Obispo

A San Luis Obispo County restaurateur found himself in hot water after his social media team posted a TikTok where he cursed about local customers.

“F—k the locals,” Roger Sharp said in a now-deleted TikTok video, with the profanity bleeped out. “That’s the way I feel in my heart. I mean, because they’re not going to be the ones that make us money, right? They’re not who this place is designed for.”

Sharp owns almost a dozen San Luis Obispo County restaurants, including Tortilla Town in Paso Robles and San Luis Obispo, Blue Sky Bistro in Morro Bay and Tito’s Red Tacos in Pismo Beach. The video was initially posted on his TikTok account @restaurantmillionaire, where he chronicles his restaurant ownership and gives business advice.

“I just popped off and said that,” Sharp told SFGATE. “And then I continued on with this conversation, which is the part that nobody sees is that … I even say it’s not that I don’t like them. But, you know, if they’re going to bitch about everything that we’re doing … and that doesn’t mean if a person doesn’t like what we’re doing, I completely understand. But to sit there and just hammer us on, on social media and specifically me personally, when they’ve never met me, and they have no idea what I’m actually about is kind of disturbing.”

On Sept. 15, Sharp released an apology video on his TikTok account where he said the video was part of a “larger conversation,” but some people keep “reposting the hatred.”

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