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# The Ideal Way to Enjoy Yelp Grievances Are These Soothing Songs With Lyrics Like 'Shouldn't Have to Chew My Coffee'

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by 

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## Melissa Locker


Jan 3, 2020 3:36 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Jan 3, 2020 3:36 PM UTC

Yelp at its best can be a helpful restaurant review site that can help hungry diners steer clear of a less than stellar spot. 

It’s also filled with personal and petty grievances. Turns out that Yelp has something else to offer the world, too: A wellspring of comedy content thanks to singer and comedian [Grace Hayes](https://www.tiktok.com/@graceorsomething).

Hayes takes lines from heartfelt complaints documented in one-star Yelp reviews of [fast food restaurants](https://time.com/3896465/taco-bell-fast-food-changes/) and sets them to music, releasing them in bite-size portions on [TikTok](https://time.com/5583700/china-tech-tiktok-app/) and sharing on social media. The result is a soothing rendition of someone’s complaint that their [Arby’s](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/18/michigan-teen-finds-finger-in-arbys-sandwich/) order was nothing but a “mess of meats and curdled cheese.”

As [_Eater_](https://www.eater.com/2019/12/27/21039351/yelp-reviews-tiktok) reports, Hayes didn’t just focus on one fast food chain, but several. Her TikTok account features songs dedicated to a different fast food restaurant including McDonald’s, [Taco Bell](https://time.com/5116272/taco-bell-burrito-throwing-incident/), and Arby’s. Hayes’s smooth tunes make every small injustice sound like a potential hit song. 

“Charged me for a water cup, changed my chalupa, the only beef they had was with me,” she sings, cribbing a line from the outraged Yelp reviews of a Taco Bell. In her ode to the Yelp reviews of McDonald’s, she soulfully sings, “I shouldn’t have to chew my coffee.” It’s a fair point that the fast food chain will hopefully take note of thanks to either the Yelp review or Hayes’s beautiful serenade.


> [](https://twitter.com/Graceorsomethin/status/1198356499786911744)

> [](https://twitter.com/Graceorsomethin/status/1198356254302695425)

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