Never piss off the chef...

[Evermore]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0228081steak1.html

Steak A La Pube
Wisconsin cook busted for serving up a most disgusting cut of beef

FEBRUARY 28--It's every diner's nightmare: You've somehow offended a restaurant employee who then decides to exact a little revenge by placing something unpleasant in your grub. That's what cops say happened Saturday night at the Texas Roadhouse in West Bend, Wisconsin, where Kevin Hansen dined with family and friends. It seems that the trouble began when Hansen mentioned to a manager that his steak was "a little over done." While Hansen said that the meal was still okay, the manager, Michael Liberatore, insisted that he accept a new medium rare steak (which Hansen took and brought home with him). When he decided to eat the steak the following day, Hansen spotted what looked like pubic hairs "stuffed in the middle of the steak." A subsequent police probe resulted in the arrest of Ryan Kropp, a 24-year-old cook who admitted adding "at least two of his facial hairs" to the steak, according to a criminal complaint. Kropp, pictured in the below mug shot, claimed that he defiled the ribeye because he thought Hansen was "just trying to get free stuff" by claiming the steak had been overcooked. Another Texas Roadhouse worker, Michael Perkins, told investigators that after Kropp cooked the replacement steak, he remarked, "These are my pubes" as he used his fingers to stuff something into the steak. "Fucking bastard, made me cook a whole new steak," Perkins recalled Kropp saying. As to the true source of the hairs, Liberatore told cops that he recalled Kropp not having "more than a couple days worth of facial hair on his face" Saturday evening. Kropp, who bonded out of jail Wednesday, is facing a felony charge of placing foreign objects in edibles, which carries a maximum of 42 months in prison. (3 pages)

[The Kizzy]

Waiting anyone?

[Gypsiyee]

ha, I've been to that particular restaurant a time or two

I've also seen the other side of the fence. When I was managing a pizza restaurant a few years ago, this guy called about the most ridiculous thing - he asked for double extra cheese and then said he got too much on it. It was a guy who'd ordered from us about 5 times, and complained and tried to get free food 3. He also lived in an area we didn't deliver to after dark because our drivers always got robbed there - the guy ordered the pizza at 5:30 or so, got it at about 6:15, called after 7 when it was dark and I told him that I couldn't refund him for getting 'too much extra' and we didn't deliver there after dark - he proceeded to cuss me out and call me a lot of bad words and tell me he would come up to the restaurant and stab me if I didn't send it, so I told him I'd send it but his phone number would be flagged and he wouldn't be able to order from us again.. so of course I made the pizza and left it to the guys to stick it in the oven because the oven was full - my ex (bf at the time) proceeded to spit a nice big phlegmy hunk of grossness into the middle of it - usually I would force a remake because I didn't allow that sort of thing on my shift, but I let that one go considering the threat on my life over a pizza~

You'd be amazed how worked up people get over food - I had my shirt grabbed and pulled over the counter and called a cracker for remaking a pizza that she said she didn't get enough cheese on (it's always the friggin cheese.) - this was another lady who always had to complain - she ordered 3x extra cheese, literally got a half a bag (about 3 pounds) on it (anymore it wouldn't have cooked properly) and still said it wasn't enough - so she came in and complained and I told her I saw the pizza and it had enough cheese but I would be happy to personally make it again, so I made it again and there was a TON of friggin cheese on it to make sure there was enough for her (it wasn't that much more than was on it before), so she said I was a sarcastic little cracker barbie bitch, I banned her account and kicked her out of my store.

I had my life threatened at that place at least 3 times, and I was the nice manager who was lenient with refunds. Half the time it was a customer who was dead set on being ridiculous and it didn't matter what you said. I loved it though, people crack me up. That's one job I could do for the rest of my life, too bad it pays horribly.