{"id":124181,"date":"2026-01-07T21:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124181\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T21:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:30:36","slug":"bartender-at-trendy-san-fran-eatery-fired-for-tripping-customer-in-meltdown-over-booze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/124181\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartender at trendy San Fran eatery fired for tripping customer in meltdown over booze"},"content":{"rendered":"

A San Francisco bartender was fired after he tripped a belligerent customer<\/a> who was attacking workers in an apparent meltdown over getting cut off from booze.<\/p>\n

Miguel Marchese, 25, was sacked in an email on Saturday weeks after the wild caught-on-video clash at Hayes hotspot Hazie\u2019s on Dec. 13 \u2014 when a screaming, intoxicated patron clashed with staff in an unhinged tantrum because her drinks were taken away.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile no other employees involved in the melee were shown the door \u2014 including a co-worker seen body-slamming the woman<\/a> during the height of the chaos.<\/p>\n

\"MiguelMarchese was fired after tripping a belligerent customer who was attacking workers. Miguel Marchese,\/Instagram<\/p>\n

The viral footage<\/a> showed a high-ranking techie \u2014 later identified as Shireen Afkari, a marketing manager at fitness app Strava \u2014 yelling at staff, harassing employees, and even storming into the kitchen.<\/p>\n

At one point, Afkari grabbed Marchese\u2019s hair and refused to let go, the video showed. The boozed-up customer then tries to scramble back to the restaurant before Marchese sticks a foot out and sends Afkari face-planting onto the pavement.<\/p>\n

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\"AThe restaurant also cited Marchese\u2019s social media posts as reasoning for the firing. Miguel Marchese\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Marchese was hailed by some as a hero for his intervention but management reportedly told him via email <\/a>that he posed an \u201cinsurance risk\u201d because he tripped the unruly customer, potentially exposing the restaurant to a lawsuit, Gazetteer SF reported.<\/p>\n

Hazie\u2019s, led by celebrity chef Joey Altman, allegedly offered Marchese a $5,000 severance package on the condition that he sign a non-disclosure agreement and promise not to sue. Marchese, who has since alleged the restaurant is under investigation for wage and tip theft, refused to sign.<\/p>\n

Adding insult to injury, the restaurant also cited Marchese\u2019s social media posts, where he criticized the establishment\u2019s lack of communication following the assault.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been slapped, I\u2019ve been degraded, I\u2019ve been given homophobic slurs, I\u2019ve been sexualized \u2026 when you work in service for a long time, it fortifies you into a really resilient person,\u201d Marchese previously told SF Gate<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hazie\u2019s didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Francisco bartender was fired after he tripped a belligerent customer who was attacking workers in an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,64846,101,103,102,104,106,105,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-124181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-mad-brawls","10":"tag-san-francisco","11":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","12":"tag-san-francisco-news","13":"tag-sf","14":"tag-sf-headlines","15":"tag-sf-news","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}