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Local news outlets have an uncanny ability to track down some incredibly entertaining characters who are willing to chime in on a story on camera, and one station in San Francisco has delivered thanks to a man who repeatedly plugged the Applebee’s “Dollarita” while recapping an earthquake that recently shook the city.
If you live in San Francisco (or really anywhere in California), you know there’s a good chance you’ll eventually have to deal with the earthquakes that are known for rocking the region on a fairly regular basis.
Residents do have to grapple with the fact that every tremor could signal the start of “The Big One” that experts predict will impact areas surrounding the San Andreas Fault at some point in time. With that said, most people eventually get used to the disturbances that usually don’t have a major impact on their lives.
That was the case with the earthquake that was triggered in the vicinity of San Francisco International Airport on the evening of October 27th, which registered a 3.7 on the Richter scale but thankfully didn’t cause any major damage.
KTVU wasted no time hitting the streets of San Francisco on Friday night to track down people who felt the earthquake and eventually crossed paths with Steve Mazzari, who stated he was “slammin’ some Dollaritas” at the Applebee’s at Fisherman’s Wharf when the restaurant began to shake.
Steve said the earthquake was “one of the bigger ones” he’d felt during his six years living in the city but noted he was relatively unfazed by the development before capping off the interview to provide viewers with a public service announcement by reminding the world the Dollarita is back.
I can only hope the folks at Applebee’s manage to track down Steve in order to reward him for those promotional plugs.