A woman's experiment with changing the name on her food order has gone viral after she claimed that using a man's name in the Chipotle app supposedly resulted in noticeably larger portions.

The story spread across TikTok and Instagram, prompting other women to share similar experiences in which changing the name attached to an order to a more masculine one purportedly affected the food quantity they received.

Natalie Melissa Kelly, known online as Style By Natalie, is a New York City-based content creator who primarily posts about fashion, her daily life and other lifestyle topics.

Her biggest viral moment, however, came from a video about a much more routine activity: ordering food from Chipotle.

Originally posted to TikTok in December 2025 and later reposted to Instagram in September 2026, the video shows Kelly claiming that she received more food than usual from Chipotle after placing her order under a masculine name.

The experiment attracted widespread attention, garnering 5.9 million views on TikTok and another 2.7 million views on Instagram within five days of being reposted.

Kelly uses a trending audio which includes a fragment of Debussy's "Clair de Lune" as she sits at her table, eating from a takeout bowl.

She forks food into her mouth, adds condiments to the bowl, and dips chips in guacamole before eating them. Kelly makes a hand gesture to indicate that the food is very good and does a little dance in her chair.

"The conspiracy is true," Kelly writes on top of her video. "I changed my name from Natalie to Nate on the Chipotle app and finally got a bowl that wasn't half empty," she claims.

"And they accidentally gave me chips," she adds. "This is a sign to change your name to a boy name. Natalie wouldn't have gotten free chips," Kelly concludes, and adds in her caption that she "needed to share this with everyone."

In the comments, women discussed how they often faced similar problems when ordering food. Many said that they noticed they got less food than men did at restaurants.

Others said that, when ordering, delivery workers often insisted on them coming outside, and that this stopped happening once they changed their name on their delivery app of choice to a male one.

Other commenters also joked about what masculine versions of their names they could use.

A particular comment compared these situations to one she faced as a law student in the 1980s, exposing a similar misogynistic bias:

"When I was in law school in the 80s, our exams were handwritten in Blue Books. It took us, three women students, one semester to realize that men printed their answers while women wrote our answers in cursive. The men outscored us the first semester, but then we started printing our exam answers and our grades improved significantly. Our Blue Books didn’t have a name; we were given numbers to keep our identities hidden for the sake of fairness. We were assumed to be men and were given higher scores."