'Revenge is a dish best served burnt': Chef gets back at customer who complains about her fancy meal

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    'I personally brought it to her with a huge smile on my face'
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    Revenge is a dish best severed burnt SOC So i am a pretty petty person and i am a smart. I know I was a but i think it was justified I was a chef at a very nice restaurant. One of the top things on our menu is A5 Olive Wagyu in non geek terms its a $800 steak. I get an order for 4 of them at a table. I cook all 4 of them the way
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    they should be which is rare due to the nature of the steak and i do that every time unless instructed otherwise.We use a special unit for cooking called a salamander.It cooks hi our steak at 900 degrees Fahrenheit so we only put it in 30 seconds per side. One of my waiters comes to
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    me in tears saying that table wanted me.So I go out put on my customer face on and walk up to the table before I can even walk up and ask if there was a problem some lady barks at me its raw.I apologize and ask if she would like me to cook it more she says she wants it done for another 10 minutes.I try to
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    explain that it would be incinerated but she barks at me you heard what I said go do it.I was tired of this so I just smile and say no problem. I take it back and I toss it back in for 10 minutes.It honestly hurt to ruin such a good steak but its what
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    she asked for.So when I take it out it literally fall apart into ash.I personally brought her it with a huge smile on my face.She asks what the ..... is this. That she didn't want this I cut her off and I say I heard what you wanted and I did it.
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    EDIT: For those asking she had to pay which she reluctantly did my manager and boss were very chill about it and even laughed after she had left and at my restaurant 20% is required and incorporated in every check and thankfully the
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    3 other people were cool and they even apologized which made me happy I assume it was a business meeting based on what they were talking about and how they were dressed
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    Saint_of_Stinkers. Did she also want her gazpacho soup served piping hot?
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    igenus44 As a former Chef of 30 years, my experience is that many people unknowingly 'look down' on restaurant employees, Chefs as well. Having worked in Country Clubs for 15 years, many think that cooking is 'easy', and any idiot can do it.
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    I did things like this often, by just giving them EXACTLY what they want. They we never happy with the result. Cooking at HOME is easy. Now, go make that same dish you are know for 35 times tonight, while simultaneously making 8 other entrees, and keep it up for the next
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    4 hours non stop. Oh, and it's about 100 degrees on the line, abd you are dressed in long pants, apron, t- shirt, thick Chef Coat, and nitrile gloves.
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    0-7 UppityTurtle Sick burn, bro. Literally. 쇼 489 Reply Share Careful-Confidence88 OP Damnit u made me laugh in one of my class i got caught on Reddit again
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    BigDsLittleD 10 minutes? Jesus christ that's far too long to cook any steak, let alone an 800 dollar Wagyu! The was she thinking?
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    Delifier If im out and ordering an 800 dollar meal, im letting those who know make it. Half the reason why anyone would go out to eat.
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    rdrunner_74 When i started my side job as service in the hotel, i put a chicken drumstick into the hotel microwave.2 minutes like at home (Back in the days only 600W MW were common) The hotel unit featured a 2.5 KW magnetron... The drumstick was dead...
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    boiledpenny The old adage be careful what you ask for comes to mind.

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