I ran the broiler for a little while in a small (mostly) family-run restaurant. One of the servers came in with an order for a steak “cooked very, very, VERY rare”. Since that happens to be how I like my steak, no problem, says I. I fire the steak and send it out. A little bit later, the server comes back with a worried look on her face. “You know that very very VERY rare steak? It was TOO RARE!” I tell her to bring it back and I’ll fire it some more. Less than a minute passed, and she comes back empty handed. The customer refused to send it back because it was cooked exactly as he ordered it. He habitually ordered steaks that way in the hope that it would be rare, but he’d never gotten one cooked per his request.
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