Off-Topic Tuesday: Steak sauce in fancy restaurants

So, the other week I was watching this show "Top Chef" on Bravo. In "Survivor"-like fashion, the contestants had a challenge where they had to cook for kids. Then the kids picked the winner. Long story short, a woman on the losing team didn't like the challenge because she didn't think the kids had a "mature palette" or something like that. She thought kids just voted for the junk food stuff, which they probably did. Anyway, one judge told her that as a chef, her only responsibility was to please the customer, even if she disagreed with their food preferences. Make the customer happy - that's all.

So that made me think about fancy restaurants. I think the people running these places are a bunch of hypocrites. I'm sure that in their tiny little brains, they think they are all about the customer, and that they pride themselves in "taking care of" their clientele. But in reality, they couldn't care less about us. Why? Because they won't give us steak sauce.

See, at fancy restaurants, you aren't supposed to need steak sauce. Why? Because the steak is seasoned and cooked so perfectly, that nobody in their right mind would want steak sauce! Ummm, what?... I think I'm smart enough to decide when I want steak sauce. And guess what? I want it every time I eat a steak! Even if it is seasoned and cooked to perfection, and even if the snobby waiters don't want to give it to me.

It is ridiculous that, somehow, it has become "tacky" to ask for steak sauce at a fancy restaurant. Would they scoff at me if I asked for butter? What about some cream with my coffee? Or what if I ordered the "wrong wine" (Red vs. White) to complement my meal? Would they not let me have it? I bet they would, and that is why they should let me have steak sauce! Because I want it, because I am the customer, and because I am paying hundreds of dollars for the meal. The end.