Ex-cook pleads guilty to putting hair in steak

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

WEST BEND, Wis. - A former restaurant cook has pleaded guilty to a food-tampering charge alleging he inserted hairs in a steak before giving it to a dissatisfied customer. Ryan Kropp, 24, of West Bend, was fired along with another cook after the incident Feb. 23 at the Texas Roadhouse restaurant.

Kropp was charged in Washington County Circuit Court with a felony of placing foreign objects in edibles, carrying up to 3 1/2 years in prison.

After his guilty plea Thursday, Judge James Muehlbauer scheduled sentencing Aug. 12.

The criminal complaint said that when a manager asked a customer how his steak was, the customer said it was somewhat overdone, although he had almost finished eating it and refused an offer of a new steak.

But the manager insisted on having Kropp prepare a new steak the way the customer wanted it, medium rare, so that he could take it home.

The customer called the restaurant and police after finding hair as he was eating the steak the next day.

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

Kropp told 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," the complaint said.

A phone number for Kropp had been disconnected when The Associated Press tried to reach him for comment Thursday night.

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[KiKi 0]

I worked as a waitress for 10 years.

You have no idea the things I've seen cooks do.....

hair is the LEAST of it!

I try to NEVER piss off the cooks when I

go out to eat......

Edited June 23, 2008 by KiKi

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

I worked as a waitress for 10 years.

You have no idea the things I've seen cooks do.....

hair is the LEAST of it!

I try to NEVER piss off the cooks when IO go out to eat......

i worked at a sambo's when i was a kid, that's quite true. never piss off the cook.

[Sinergy 3]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

*gagging*

[brnidokiegurl 0]

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

next time ya'll order food somewhere and they ask what you'd like for sides, think of this story......

[Nagishkaw 510]

I rarely eat out for that very reason. I do not like anyone touching my food because Im very suspicious of what they are putting in it.

[*julez* 124]

That's just nasty and it really p!$$es me off that cooks are so vindictive.

If you're a server and you see a cook put something in the food that doesn't belong, do you actually serve it anyway?????? Cos that's messed up!

[amerasianlove 0]

moral lesson of the story :BE NICE TO EVERYONE IN THE RESTO!!!!!lol

Someone i know who is working as a waiter says when he get pissed off with very demandig clients ,when he serves their drinks he will soak his fingers first ...lol..that's their way to get even

[*julez* 124]

yeah, I don't find that kind of payback to be very funny at all.

[mawilson 2,133]

Pubic hair?

[morocco4ever 63]

That's f'ed up. Whats the big deal if we want it done our way? Afterall we are paying for it. Seriously we shouldn't have to worry that sending something back will end up in something disgusting like that.

Will this be on their permanent record? I am sure that other restaurants would want to know they had done this previously before they hire them.

[Ban Hammer 13,342]

That's f'ed up. Whats the big deal if we want it done our way? Afterall we are paying for it. Seriously we shouldn't have to worry that sending something back will end up in something disgusting like that.

Will this be on their permanent record? I am sure that other restaurants would want to know they had done this previously before they hire them.

it's a felony charge, so if convicted, yes.

[Aymerlu 3]

gross

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

its definitely not the first time this has happened and surely wont be the last... somehow after I hear this then I think about not eating out anymore and then I forget about it when we decide we dont want to cook...