A food influencer took extreme advantage of Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt’s $5 deal.
In a viral TikTok video with 2.6 million views, user Amin Shaykho (@aminshaykho) shared how he exploited the deal to score a massive amount of frozen yogurt for just a few dollars.
“Menchie’s has $5 ‘bring your own cup,’” Shaykho began in the clip.
He then put the deal to the test.
The “food deals” expert showed up with a massive cup to fill with frozen yogurt.
The cup could barely fit through the store’s front door.
Menchie’s $5 ‘fill your own cup’ deal
Before the food influencer filled his ultra-large cup with frozen yogurt, he verified the deal with a worker.
“Five dollars to fill your own cup, right?” he asked, pointing to a flyer that advertised the deal.
The worker responded, “Yes,” and he got right to work filling the massive cup.
“The process has begun,” he said.
Then, he used a smaller cup to fill the frozen dessert into the jumbo one.
“I feel like we’re not making any progress,” he reported after adding many of the smaller cups to the larger one.
However, he never gave up. By the time the store closed, he finally managed to fill up the entire extra-large cup.
“Five dollars, right?” he asked the cashier.
Then he tapped to pay with his phone.
Amin Shaykho’s extra-large antics
Shaykho often goes viral for his videos featuring extra-large food.
In one video, he took an extra large cup to Wendy’s to test out the $1 any-size drink deal. Another video featured a $4,000 bag of Lays classic potato chips.
His most popular video racked up 12 million views after he brought a huge popcorn bucket to the theatre to fill for only $5.
@aminshaykho Menchie’s has $5 bring your own cup so I made a massive cup of frozen yogurt 🍨
♬ original sound – Amin Shaykho
Commenters chime in
In the video’s comments section, many felt bad for the Menchie’s yogurt store.
“That store owner must be crying,” user Jason Shaw wrote.
“They never doing this again,” user You’re pretty commented.
“Prank too far that must’ve been expensive for the owner,” user
ERH said.
Others noted that the influencer seems to at least give away the food.
“I love that he gave it away at the end tho,” user Maria wrote.
The Daily Dot reached out to Shaykho and Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt via email for comment.
Update 12:29pm CT, April 2: In an email to the Daily Dot, Shaykho shared, “My fans know me for making large food items, like the world’s largest Menchie’s cup, largest bag of Lay’s chips (5 feet), biggest popcorn bucket (4 feet), and more. I’m also know[n] for sharing really good food deals.”
He explained that with oversized items like the Menchie’s cup, Lay’s chips, and popcorn bucket, there’s sometimes a promotion surrounding the item.
“For example, Menchie’s has $5 bring your own cup at certain locations, and I was down for the challenge to see how big I can go!” he wrote. “In other videos, like the largest Lay’s bag of chips, I was trying to make the world’s largest and most expensive bag of chips—which cost me around $4,000.”
Shaykho revealed that he donates the food at the end of each video. “Food is never wasted.”
“My content is entertaining and informative,” he said. “For example, with the Menchie’s video, we made millions of customers aware of the deal—in an entertaining way. Happy customers, more business for Menchie’s, and helping individuals and communities experiencing homelessness!”
“My goal is to also make caring cool again,” he added. “Showing the world that giving back and building community can be mainstream too—these videos pull tens of millions of views across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat. My massive popcorn video is at around 50M views total.”
“I’m also the CEO of a Forbes 30 Under 30 company called Kadama, that is venture backed, aiming at making education accessible to the underprivileged. My personal life goal is to make a positive impact at [a] big scale, and I also do it with my social media!”
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