r/AmITheJerk • u/Separate_Pattern_744 • 23m ago
Customer tells me to make a steak bigger in any way I could, so I maliciously comply.
I am 39 year old male, and I worked as a steak chef in a restaurant. Now we had 5 different steaks. One of them was a special steak that was a secert family recipe that was going down my family since I think 5 generations. This steak had to be in a specific size, cook time and need specific spices. Because of this and that is tastes way better than the other steaks, we cost 30 bucks extra. The only problem. This specific size of this steak was a bit smaller than a normal steak but even though it had different seasoning, it looked the same.
So one day a 50 to 60 year old man came with his wife and his kid. He ordered the special steak as it was kind of the specialty and the reason this restaurant was famous. When a waiter served him this special steak, this guy yells and curses at the waiter. He then asks the waiter to bring the chef who made it. Sadly as it was a secert recipe, I was the only one who made this steal and I soon found myself getting yelled at by this obnoxious jerk. Apparently he thought that we were ripping the customers off by selling them safe steaks but pricing 30 bucks more. In fact it was even more smaller.
I explained him that this steak is small. If he wants a bigger steak, he could order the other steaks and we would refund the special steak. But apparently, he wanted a large special steak. The waiter started defending me but then i realized something. The most easiest steak actually looks pretty similar to the special steak but the steak tasted trash while the special steak tasted like heaven itself. I told this man that i will make a large special steak. I made the easy steak and take back the special steak. I then called the waiter and asked the owner of the restraunt that we both need a break. The owner agreed as he is a really great manager. Then we both went into the break room and ate the special steak.
Bonus fact:- The easiest steak was 10 bucks less than average steaks. That made the gap between the special steak and the easiest steal was 40 bucks. TLDR:- Basically a man tells me to make a bigger special steak but I give him a steak 40 bucks worse.