Frivolous use of expensive ingredients

[Shalmanese]

I remember visibly wincing when reading a news article about restaurants selling Wagyu (Kobe) steaks and how some people would order theirs well done.

[foodie52]

Where I work, we had a small jar - 30 g - of Ossetra caviar that had just gone out of date. It retails at about $350. I was invited to partake. We got some fresh rye bread from the bakery and stood around the jar with spoons: dropping great globs of caviar on the bread. It was surreal and wonderfully decadent!

[fatmat]

My missus once used all my fleur de sel to brine some pickling onions because she couldn't find the kitchen salt!!

[Jmahl]

When I was in the restaurant business in Mexico a client ordered something called "jugo de carne." My chef took a filet, poached it, chopped it, put it in cheese cloth and squeezed the juice out into a glass. That's jugo the carne. We billed for a filet. After that we kept meat scrapes in the freezer for another order of - you know what.

Other wasteful practice - client ordered Martell V.S.O.P. in a highball glass of Coke®. I never got it - Mexican brandy would do just fine for me.

Edited December 12, 2005 by Jmahl (log)