Influencer Wishbone Kitchen accuses Bon Appétit magazine of ripping off her concept for their new series

A New York backstage chef-turned-influencer blasted nutrient magazine Bon Appétit claiming they ripped disconnected her meal enactment YouTube series.

Meredith Hayden, 29, runs the private cook and catering business Wishbone Kitchen, and skyrocketed to fame for her societal media beingness nether the institution name.

She took to Instagram connected Tuesday to call out Bon Appétit for launching a new bid focused connected meal parties that appears to beryllium eerily akin to 1 of her ain - and some person the aforesaid title.

The mag announced earlier successful the time that their trial room exertion Kendra Vaculin spearheaded a bid called Dinner With Friends wherever she hosts a meal enactment each month.

'In our caller bid Dinner With Friends, trial room exertion throws a real-life get-together successful her flat each period tackling a communal hosting challenge. Then she passes her adept crippled program on to you—the menu, the market and prep lists, and each her tips and tricks,' Bon Appétit said.

'Head to the nexus successful bio for Kendra’s menu, past get connected the groupchat to spot who’s escaped Friday night. You’re hosting, right?'

Hayden expressed her outrage implicit the information that Bon Appétit is making a high-production bid that is akin to the 1 she makes connected her own. 

'Now, successful lawsuit you're caller here, Dinner with Friends is the sanction of my meal enactment video bid that I launched connected YouTube successful January 2024,' she said.

'I'm not going to impeach them of copying maine due to the fact that I'm not stupid; I cognize that the operation meal with friends is not similar a revolutionary title, but they should person done immoderate owed diligence and astatine slightest fixed it a Google to marque definite that rubric wasn't already spoken for.'

Hayden called retired the similarities betwixt the 2 bid including the aforesaid colour branding she antecedently utilized and phrasing that suggests they are offering the aforesaid services she does.

'It's precise absorbing that they chose pinkish and reddish arsenic their colors due to the fact that up until a fewer weeks ago, pinkish and reddish was Wishbone Kitchen and Dinner with Friends branding. I consciousness similar they could person chose immoderate different colour combination,' Hayden said.

'Are you f*****g kidding me? We inactive don't cognize what that means, the radical chat, but again, wherever determination is smoke, determination is fire, the coincides are conscionable excessively many.

'If you're unfamiliar, my newsletter, wherever I station each of the menus from Dinner with Friends is called The Group Chat.'

She revealed portion of her rage comes from the information that she had antecedently tried to enactment with Bon Appétit, but they turned her down. 

'Bon Appetit, what the existent hellhole is going on? I'm truthful angry. I'm truthful angry. You rejected maine to enactment determination for 2 years, and I accepted that, but present that I've gone disconnected connected my ain and made thing for myself, you person to instrumentality that too?' Hayden said.

'If it was an honorable mistake, I get it, but I expect a caller sanction and caller branding from you wrong 24 hours. Thank you, bye.'

Hayden's supporters flooded the comments connected Bon Appétit's station encouraging the mag to rebrand the series.

'What successful the Wishbone Kitchen is this?? That’s dirty,' 1 idiosyncratic said.

'It’s not excessively precocious to delete this! Cool conception but you request a caller sanction and branding,' said another.

A 3rd commenter said, 'I consciousness similar adjacent if y’all effort to travel retired saying “this bid has been successful accumulation for 2 years”…Meredith‘s meal with friends bid has been nationalist for a afloat year. 

'That gave you PLENTY of clip to adjust. There’s zero accidental not a azygous idiosyncratic moving connected this has seen what Meredith has been moving on. Y’all conscionable thought you could steamroll her bc you’re bon Appetit and you can’t enactment distant from nastiness.

'So shady to rip disconnected different contented creators successful specified a blatant fashion. Shame connected you,' a 4th idiosyncratic said.

DailyMail.com contacted Hayden, Valculin and Bon Appétit for comment.