I spent 15 years in the industry in a variety of restaurants and I never saw anyone mess with a customer’s food.
I might cave, just to keep the peace. But I would also trespass them from the property.
If they order a steak well done, but it’s medium, then it’s undercooked. Why would it have to be cold?
When you order a steak, the server typically asks you how you want your steak cooked.
Rare - seared on the outside red on the inside
Medium Rare - seared on the outside, red in in the center, but with pink surrounding the red
Medium - seared on the outside pink in the middle
Medium Well - seared on the outside slight pinkish color in center
Well Done - Brown Center and not truly fit for human consumption
If I order a steak to be cooked medium and it comes back rare then it is undercooked. If I order a steak to be cooked medium and it comes back well done it is over cooked.
Whoosh!
Only now that it’s too late do I get the joke.
Boy, i hope you can say, “excuse me, i asked for a rare steak, and this one is gray all the way through. Can you please get me a rare steak” without pissing off the staff. Mistakes happen. It’s nice when they can be fixed.
Related to the OP: i like meat rare. My husband likes it medium well to well done. Sometimes, when i make steaks, his is underdone, despite my best efforts with a thermometer. When that happens, we take the same piece of meat and cook it some more. It would never have occurred to me to throw it out and start over.
I do not think I have ever had waitstaff do that.
Yep, and I was a line cook for some time.
Simple normal complaints do not get the food spat on. They are an hourly occurrence, and sooner or later, that would be spotted and the restaurant shut down.
Maybe I’m just a romantic, but deep down I think most people who work in the food industry are just decent people who wouldn’t do something to someone’s food.
God, what a shitty fucking meme. I don’t know what it is about steak that makes so many people so absolutely insufferable about people having different preferences, but no other food seems to draw out people’s inner prick more than a well done steak.
Thank you. I’ve been dying to say something like this for a while, but I thought it might be too Pittish for CS.
Yeah, possibly. Consider my comments aimed at the asshole who made the meme, and not the perfectly fine poster who had the misfortune of sharing it.
We exiled a man from my village because he insisted on putting cereal in the bowl after filling it with milk.
I have no issue with how anyone wants their steak cooked, as long as they arent overly fussy. I went to the Pantry, and my buddy ordered his steak well done. The waiter said- I can ask the cook to butterly it (it was a very thick steak).
But bring me a well done steak when I have ordered medium rare- and yep, I am not a happy person- I will send it back. Mind you, if it is merely medium, I will not complain.
I will raise my eyebrows a bit if you pour ketchup over a good steak, but your food is your food, eat it and enjoy.
No. Just…no. Eat your steak the way you want, but I will not eat with you anymore than I would eat with someone who chews with their mouth open or abuses the waitstaff. At that point it negatively affects my enjoyment of MY meal.
Probably best if we meet after dinner.
Same as you.
Actually, what’s currently obsessing me about that meme graphic is the puzzling fact that it uses the British spelling of “flavourful”, but the American version “mommy” rather than British “mummy”. Is the origin of that meme… Canadian??
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I assume that’s not an intentional British spelling, and that the “u” is a fortuitous typo by a semi-literate meme-maker.
It’s astonishing how many people on this board think this regularly happens.