A lot at steak | Are hospitality bosses like Salt Bae harder to cancel?

Every few years, a meme will take the internet by storm. In 2017, Nusret Gökçe, better known as Salt Bae, became an online sensation because of videos of him sprinkling salt on a steak by allowing it to slide down his arm.

Salt Bae, who has over 51m followers on Instagram, is a Turkish butcher and chef with 22 steakhouses across the world. But former employees of the salt-sprinkling meme star have filed seven lawsuits in two cities against him for allegations of sexual and racial discrimination, wage theft and for cultivating a “hyper-masculine culture.”