WEST BEND, Wis. - A restaurant cook is out of a job and facing a felony charge after being accused of hiding hairs in a ribeye because a customer complained the first steak served to him was overcooked.

Kevin Hansen, who dined at the steakhouse with friends and family Saturday, said he ordered a 16-ounce ribeye cooked medium rare, with a warm, red center, according to the criminal complaint filed against cook Ryan Kropp.

When restaurant service manager Michael Liberatore stopped by the table, Hansen told him the steak was cooked medium, not medium rare.

Hansen declined an offer of a new steak, but Liberatore persisted and offered a new steak he could take home, the complaint said.

Liberatore then took what was left of the first steak and showed it to Kropp and the other cook on duty "so that they could both learn what a medium rare steak was supposed to look like," the complaint said.

Hansen went to police Sunday to complain of hair in the second steak. A police officer observed "several strands of what appeared to be hair coming out of the middle of the steak," the complaint said.

Kropp, 24, of West Bend, was charged Wednesday with a felony of placing foreign objects in edibles, carrying up to 3 1/2 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. He was released on a signature bond.

Kropp admitted to police he put a few of his facial hairs on the steak, saying he was angry the customer sent the other steak back and thought he was "just trying to get free stuff," according to the complaint.

According to the complaint, a second kitchen worker told police Kropp put a slit in the steak and pushed something inside, then stated, "These are my pubes," referring to pubic hair.

Travis Doster, a spokesman for the Texas Roadhouse chain of 288 restaurants in 44 states, said Thursday night that Kropp and the other worker were both terminated.

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Dude should learn how to cook a proper steak....

This is exactly why if my food is not cooked right.....I simply leave!

KidaDynamite said:

indeed. i'm not affraid to say something about it, but what's the use
of making a scene? you never know if some bastard in the kitchen will
spit in your food or do something like the above.

i will just try to eat whatever i can salvage from a bad meal but in
the end i will tell them it was crap when they ask me if i enjoyed it
but i will never send anything back.

All ya gotta do is watch the movie "Waiting"

It will change your life....

pardonme4livin said:

I've seen it!

My mom is always talking smack to waiters faces when she goes to restuarants.

Its really dangerous, a cook could get mad and put ANYTHING in your food.

KidaDynamite said:

You know that shit happens for real too....

I was a waiter when I was younger to help pay for college.

I remember customer once complained that when I handed them the plate of steak that my thumb was pressing down on one side of the steak. He asked me why I was holding his steak with my thumb against the plate.

I was, like "Well, I didn't want to drop it on the floor again."

pardonme4livin said:

I don't even want to imagine.

Imago said:

I worked the grill at Friendly's when I was in High School.
Yes, I did once drop a burger on the floor...and didn't have time to cook another one...so it got slapped back on the grill for a few second to kill of the coodies and it went on someone's plate.

Sorry.

PurpleJedi said:

KidaDynamite said:

I recall that it was too busy for me to oook up a new one.

PurpleJedi said:

an ex of mine worked at mc donalds and she told me that one night
they had an incredible asshole at the counter so they threw the
hamburger on the floor, played foot hockey with it through the
whole kitchen en then slapped it onto the gril for 2 seconds to
heat it up and put it on the bun lol.

after i dumped her i couldn't go to mcdonalds anymore, ever, in
her hometown

Nasty!!!!

My old boyfriend ordered a pitcher of beer at a restaurant and there was a booger with two pubes stuck to the side of it

CarrieLee said:

Why would a booger have two pubes stuck init?>

and WHY would it be on a beer glass?

This world is too weird..

CarrieLee said:

Okay, i'm done.....

i work with the wife of the guy this happened to.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

The puber or pubeee ?

i use to work in a restaurant when i was younger and pretty much seen it all.

from spitting in the ice machine to the cooks taking turns rubbing meat on their meat.

and god forbid if you came in right before the kitchen closed.

mdiver said:

the pubeee.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

Poor bastid.... i hate pubes in one's teeth

mdiver said:

well it might be embarrasing at first, but i'd get over it after i got my check for a couple hundred grand.

magnificentsynthesizer said:

I guess that would ease one's pain.....and fur mouth

mdiver said: