Fontaine’s general manager, Kelcey Flanagan, told Rolling Stone the encounter is not uncommon in Atlanta. “This is nothing new for us,” she said. “It was just quite funny.”

Rag Rolling Stone:

Flanagan says @equanaas’s gauntlet of seafood didn’t exactly break any records for Fontaine’s. “I’ve had two ladies order six dozen [oysters] each,” she says. “That’s not even the cherry on top — they were drinking white Russians. I didn’t know how to personally feel about that. I was just like, this is insane to me, but okay.” She’s also seen competitive eaters come in on special nights: “Like I had this one guy that was in an oyster-eating competition order 15 dozen,” she says.

“I will say, it had been a minute since I had a single female eat that many,” Flanagan adds. “But then, you know, she was eating crackers and things like that. But yeah, she put it away. It’s pretty impressive.”

Flanagan also cleared up a few questions raised by @equanaas’s TikTok. First, she denied any charge that the video had been staged. “No, this happens all the time,” she says of customers walking out on dates that go awry. “People already think its guerrilla marketing and it’s just like, it’s just Atlanta. You can’t make it up.” As to why the table never gets cleared, Flanagan explains that @equanaaa asked her server to keep the empty plates so she could stack them for the video. Perhaps the strangest revelation, however, is that the woman’s date came back after she had paid the tab. “I don’t know what was said,” Flanagan says. “But he popped back in and then they left.” (Reached via her Instagram account, @equanaaa did not reply to a request for comment on this.)

Staged.