JP Bovenzi

🪳 Bed Bugs Just Crashed Dinner, and the Video Proof is Wild 🪳 Picture this: You’re at a restaurant, digging into your meal, when something tiny starts crawling out of the chair you’re sitting in. That nightmare just went viral, and it’s not the first time. In April 2026, a customer at Rafferty’s (Germantown Parkway location) filmed bed bugs literally emerging from the seams of their restaurant chair. The short clip shows the bugs clearly in motion, and it’s blowing up online, with people swearing they’ll never sit on upholstered restaurant seating again. Just months earlier, in August 2025, the same thing happened at Ala Moana Center’s busy Lanai Food Court in Hawaii. A diner felt bites, looked down, and caught bed bugs in the wooden chair on video. Mall management shut down the seating, called in pest control, and removed the affected chairs. Here’s the scary-but-true part: Bed bugs are hitchhikers. They ride in on clothes, bags, or coats and love hiding in fabric cushions, booth seams, or wooden joints. Restaurants, movie theaters, offices, just about any seating or business with soft seating is 100% safe. Pro tip from pest pros: Do a quick visual check of the chair seams and underside before you sit. Hard wooden or metal seats are your safest bet when possible. Have you ever spotted (or suspected) bed bugs in a restaurant?