Don’t let them eat the cake!
A private chef accused the staff at a Midtown steakhouse of usurping half of the cake he cooked and brought to his friend’s birthday dinner this week — a sweet betrayal that the restaurant described as a “complete lie.”
In a viral TikTok posted Thursday, Ryan Nordheimer, 25, claimed Quality Meats employees served 12 dinner party guests only a “small” slice of the “huge” 15-layer funfetti cake, which took him six hours to cook. Took hours. opportunity.
“At the end of dinner, when we asked our waiter where the leftover cake was, we were expecting them to bring out the remaining half of the cake – but instead, they simply said that there was no cake There’s no one left,” Nordheimer said. The video was viewed nearly 6 million times.
The East Village-based chef requested to personally cut the cake — which he claimed was worth “hundreds of dollars” — but the restaurant declined, citing it as a “safety hazard,” he explained in the three-minute clip. .
“So the only explanation is that this high-end, New York City midtown steakhouse took the cake back to the kitchen, cut small pieces of the cake for all of us to eat, and he ate the rest himself,” Nordheimer continued. Said .
The Keck massacre caused immediate outrage.
“As a former fine dining server we would be fired if we did this,” one TikToker wrote.
“This is crazy and you should protest the restaurant,” said another.
However, a representative of Quality Meats insisted that only two pieces of cake were left – “not half a cake” as Nordheimer had claimed – and that the employees had not eaten the dessert.
“While we acknowledge that we failed to pack the remaining two slices, allegations that employees ate the cake are completely false,” the representative said.
The restaurant ate up the humble pie, reached out to Nordheimer to apologize and offered him a complimentary dinner.
Nordheimer, for his part, changed his tune in a separate TikTok posted Friday — and asked his incensed followers to “take a cold pill” over the frosting fiasco.
He said, “There’s a lot of people in that restaurant who are trying to make a living like the rest of us, and they’ve admitted that it was a mistake, and I think we all make mistakes, so I “Can live with him.”
