tourist busted for trying to stiff steakhouse 'simply did not want to pay:' Commissioner Kelly

New York Daily News ^

[driftdiver]

This tourist was supposedly a regular so he should have known the cost.

He’s a thief.

[Daffynition]

Yes he is. I didn’t see that he was a *regular* in the linked article: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/italian-tourist-simply-pay-kelly-article-1.1248327

I’m sure it didn’t help that he was drunk. :)

[wiggen]

ha. i typo with the best of them.

[oh8eleven]

Yup, no way a steak n taters dinner is worth that much. He shoulda went to someplace like Outback ...
Outback over Smith and Wollensky? Surely you jest.
The Smith and Wollensky menu shows their steaks averaging about $50. Not bad for NYC.
The $208 bill might have been for two people and/or included drinks too.

[driftless2]

"typo"

I'm totally sympathetic. I made a typo mistake a few weeks ago when writing a response to some thread (typed "two much" instead of "too much") and didn't see the error until I had posted my response. I thought no one would notice or care much. How wrong I was. The next day I received a message from some anal-retentive Freeper who lambasted me for not knowing the difference between two and too. I guess I couldn't put two and too together.

[driftless2]

I always order my steaks medium well because if they undercook it slightly, I can eat it medium. Ditto for overcooking a bit as I can handle well done. But my wife always orders steaks well done, and a few times the steaks have arrived shoe leather texture. Which made my wife extremely upset.

(incidentally, my wife is like most people who grew up in Britain...most of them order their steaks/meat well done.)

[jjotto]

$100 per person for a steak dinner and drinks at an upscale place isn’t out of line anywhere in the country. Not here in Des Moines. I’d expect NYC to be twice that.

[ontap]

I know the feeling...like it or not there are some freepers whose lives are so miserable that the only thing they have to do is cruise free republic in search of typos so as to demonstrate their intelligence. Actually the only thing they demonstrate is their arrogance and rudeness.

[xrmusn]

Whats a “tony” steakhouse?
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That is one of those ‘if you have to ask’ questions, you probably shouldn’t go in. <:

Like if you are interviewing for a job, probably not a good idea to ask the interviewer “what does an Addadictome Technician do?” if that was in the job description.

[RegulatorCountry]

I grew up in a home where any sort of meat was cooked “well done,” and came to appreciate certain cuts prepared mid-rare after leaving home for college. A really good quality steak or filet benefits from being cooked certain ways, none of which involves cooking beyond medium. I'm especially fond of a Pittsburgh mid-rare filet with shallot butter.

On the other hand, rare to the point of being cold in the middle, I just do not understand the appeal of it, the texture is not pleasant and neither is the flavor. I think it's just some sort of fetish, hey look at me I'm such a carnivore, or something. Steak tartare, forget it. Ground chuck needs to be at least medium. Rare hamburger is disgusting.

[driftdiver]

There have been a few other articles on this guy. The story keeps changing.

For me the lesson is - if I plan to consume the products and services of a company I should probably take steps to ensure I can pay for it.

Sure mistakes happen, so does theft.

[driftdiver]

“Yup, no way a steak n taters dinner is worth that much.”

I cook my steaks on my green egg grill but a good steak at a good restaurant will easily run $100/person. Especially with all the fixins.

Heck you can spend $30 just for the steak at Outback.

[driftdiver]

“On the other hand, rare to the point of being cold in the middle, I just do not understand the appeal of it, ...”

Hence my tagline - I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.

[RegulatorCountry]

Years ago, we took my grandmother out to a steakhouse for dinner on a special occasion. She’d never been to one. The waiter asked her how she’d like her steak, she looked at him like he had three heads, laughed a little and said “done.” English descent, I guess ancestral habits survive for a long time, centuries.

[chainsaw]

guess I couldn’t put two and too together.

Me TO!

[Cyber Liberty]

There are quite a few restaurants that would refuse to serve your wife a Filet Mignon well-done. It’s a crime, really, to prepare meat of that cut well done, because a Sirloin would be just as good if it’s going to be burned to a crisp. Overcooking fine cuts of steak is pointless.

The Chef often takes it personally. In her younger days, a Chef once banned my wife from his kitchen for a shift because she brought him an order to cook a Filet Mignon well-done.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

He shouldn’t have eaten dinner in the Champagne Room.

For a ha-ha, Chris Rock’s ‘There is no sex in the Champagne Room’, Xena version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeHlXlmPzTo

[Buddygirl]

I guess paying $8.99 for a 6 oz rib eye steak is down right cheap comparing to the other steakhouses! (I lived with parents who grew up during the Depression)

[hinckley buzzard]

Whats a “tony” steakhouse?

That's Newyorkey for "overpriced."

[capt B]

In 1957, I was a busboy(today- P/C busser), in Denver Co. The restaurant was billed as “The Finest Steakhouse West of the Mississippi” Served the likes of Jack Webb- Dragnet, Jayne Mansfield(her’s were real- before enhancements). The cfe would not make a steak over medium. If sent back for MW or well, would throw the meat on the floor, step on it, pick it up, spit on it and say “the pigs want burnt meat, I’ll give it to them”. He about burnt it to death.. Lesson learned- Never sent a meal back, anywhere, in the 57 years, since.