@roflwofl wrote:
At Texas Roadhouse, whoever serves your entrees is supposed to ask you to cut into your steak immediately and let them know if it looks right before they leave. Then the server comes by 2 minutes later. But the Roadhouse does not require pictures. And TX Roadhouse is not really fine dining. Most fine dining places haven't asked me immediately to cut into the steak.
I think that was my initial point. If it's fine dining, I don't think they'd do that...but perhaps it's a regional thing. If it's a restaurant that requires that behavior as a standard, then they would obviously be understanding as well.
Slightly off-topic, but this thread reminds me of a time where I was at a well-known upscale steakhouse in L.A. for a work diner and the client who brought me there voluntarily cut into his steak when the server delivered it, then asked for it to be more well done. The chef returned with the steak 30 seconds later in the same condition, and in a thick French accent announced, "When you are in my house, you will eat your steak that way I make it!" Every time I drive by that place I still chuckle a bit. I have never seen it mystery shopped...