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Do you send your steak back if not cooked right???
Locust Fork
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We went to Outback today for an early dinner. I got the ribeye and Larry got the Porterhouse....my oldest daughter got the filet. My daughter's was perfect, but both mine and Larry's were well done.
We ordered Medium. When the gal said....cut into your steaks and see if they are done like you wanted....it was the first time that I can remember that I was just NOT happy. It was tough as can be.
She took our two steaks back.....and insisted on getting them done right.
When she brought them out Larry's was fine and mine was overdone AGAIN. I told her not to worry about it at this point I was eating whatever they had on the plate. She took my meal off the ticket....and I tipped her what my plate would have costed for the trouble.
I had filld up on bread by this point and couldn't even eat the bits that were ok. My daughter took it home with her. I can only imagine what it was like once it gets re-heated. I'm guessing leather or such.
We ordered Medium. When the gal said....cut into your steaks and see if they are done like you wanted....it was the first time that I can remember that I was just NOT happy. It was tough as can be.
She took our two steaks back.....and insisted on getting them done right.
When she brought them out Larry's was fine and mine was overdone AGAIN. I told her not to worry about it at this point I was eating whatever they had on the plate. She took my meal off the ticket....and I tipped her what my plate would have costed for the trouble.
I had filld up on bread by this point and couldn't even eat the bits that were ok. My daughter took it home with her. I can only imagine what it was like once it gets re-heated. I'm guessing leather or such.
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There are some gross things going on in there. I've seen it done.
I like steak prepared just about any way except burnt. I do not like to order a New York Stripe and have to send it back and wait an hour or two to get one right.
this is not fiction
No. Never. Not THIS little black duck. Not even with a polite request for more cooking. I eat it as is or leave it.
I never piss off someone with access to my food and I don't know what mood the chef is in. He may take offense at sending it back.
Too old to live...too young to die...
My daughter really wanted a blooming onion....that is really the only reason we went there. I didn't expect a whole lot as far as the steaks go from this place. I don't think we will be back anytime soon. Its pretty rare that anyone craves a blooming onion...at least I hope so!!!
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
If you offend the employees, the can do some nasty things to your food, and the waitress will watch them do it, and then she will serve you your new batch of food with a big smile on her face.
An old friend though would make them make it right and ain't above walking it back to the chef herself and having words. I've seen it done, a real performance artist. Woman is a regular force of nature.
Of course, her idea of a rare steak is to insult the animal, toss some nasty language at it, hack off the steak while it's still hot under the collar for all the cussing, pass a match under it and slap it on a plate.
That's a tad more color to the meat than I care for, but to each their own.
Around here we have the Old Country Kitchen, and they do steaks the way you ask. The old one burned down in 1977, and my uncle was the guy who built the new one. My claim to fame was plumbing the liquor lines to the bar. [:D]
My preferred method for cooking a steak is to walk it through a fairly warm kitchen at a brisk pace. [;)][^]
Several months ago, though, I went to an Outback for a meal and I was very disappointed in the quality of the food. Very middling, fries were cold, steak was very average, etc. Quite disappointing.
If I'm at a very nice place and paying a lot for a steak, it needs to be right. If it's a quick meal or an average place, I'll eat what I'm served.
So probably a feud between two of them.
She was trying to get the cook fired. And might have succeeded.
But not before he took a couple of whacks at your steaks. [xx(]
I would not have sent them back. Just take it off the bill please. And don't return.
I have total confidence where the owner acts as the expediter that anything that comes out of the kitchen is absolutely safe and not screwed with.
I've worked with him and he would not only fire but probably bring charges against any employee that tried that crap.
If you eat where they truly love serving food they can be proud of you really don't have to worry about wanting it right. They want it right too.
Now if you eat at Outback, Applebees, Carabas, or whatever who knows.
So I would not send anything back there.
I eat and likely won't leave much of a tip...So the server who's being paid less than minimum wage and depends on tips to make ends meet suffers for the shortcomings of the cook who was paid a full wage despite screwing up your meal?
I try not to eat at chains at all if I can help it.
Dining is kind of a lost part of American culture. Rush, rush, rush, in, out, turn the table, next!
I do my best to patronize independent restaurants, diners, grills, etc.
I like to enjoy a cocktail, hear about the specials or house specialties, enjoy a nice light appetizer, another cocktail, have my salad, then enjoy my entree. Maybe, look over the desert menu and/or have a nice cordial or liqueur. Usually 2 hours minimum at a nice restaurant. The chains can't deal with that!
These days, if I make 7:00pm reservations we usually go at 6:00-6:30 and go right to the bar for our cocktail before we even tell the host or hostess we are there.
When I order a steak, they can heat it up with a flashlight. I want it rare. Prime rib, I order as rare as they have available.
However, give me a good crispy Bohemian Roast Duck with dumplings and Sour Kraut and I am one happy guy!
I patronize Outback whenever I can because they flew a 747 packed with steaks and pretty servers to Desert Storm for Thanksgiving in 1991. They'd get my business no matter what. But our local one does a fabulous job on food - and their pork chop is to die for.
I do this very unusual thing in every restaurant I visit: I'm not only polite and friendly to the wait staff but I warn them in advance that I'm a big tipper. Funny - I never fail to get great service and food.
I rarely order any kind of steak, usually stick with sea food its harder to mess up. So to answer your question no.
Yep, me too. Spent my childhood rasing steaks. Have spent a large part of my adulthood raising steaks. Ain't interested in spending $20.00+ on a steak in a restaurant.
Well played! It's amazing how well a few smiles and good manners work in a restaurant....[;)][:D]
I have some friends that we refuse to go out to eat with because they just do not know how to order and eat in a restaurant. [:(]
Last week, we took our daughter, SIL and granddaughter to a nice sushi place. Did my usual "warning" with a smile. They didn't charge me for LilBit's meal, every sushi plate that was supposed to have six items had eight, and I'm pretty sure we got one extra plate of sashimi. Bill came to $80 and I left them a $40 tip. (Full sushi dinners at $30/person is still dirt cheap.)
Now I was pleasently surprised with Claim Jumpers out off I-5 on my way back from Long Beach, CA. That was back in early 2000's so I don't know where they are since I dont have them close by to see if they now suck.
As for a movie about the service industries look for "Waiting" with Ryan Renolds [:D].
Whenever I'm in Bessemer I'm usually picking up a car load of guns....so I can't stop and go eat there. One day....soon....I'm making the trip out there to just eat!!! None of this gun business!
I'm looking forward to the day I get to eat at Bright Star in Bessemer....I hear that they have the BEST steaks a person could wish for. They are aged beef....which is not as common as it used to be. Plus, they are FAMOUS for having wonderful service and being a "upper class" place.
Whenever I'm in Bessemer I'm usually picking up a car load of guns....so I can't stop and go eat there. One day....soon....I'm making the trip out there to just eat!!! None of this gun business!
Now your talking!
Two of my favorite things favorite things. A car load of guns and a fine dinner![:D][;)]
Life is too short to shoot ugly guns, and certainly too short to put off getting dressed up and going out for a great dinner with your spouse!
I don't know anything about this restaurant is or how far Bessemer is, but if you have heard good things about it, I would make reservations and gas up the Camaro!