Tri Tip Grill Doesn’t Tolerate Chewy Meat
If you’re paying under $10 for steak, you’d expect to get a not so tender piece here and there. But apparently Tri Tip Grill, the “best thing in [the] Rock Center” concourse, doesn’t operate like that. From Lunch’er “John”
Hey guys–
I normally don’t do anything like this but figured you might be interested since I remember reading a good review of the Tri Tip Grill in Rock Center about a month back (the reason I tried it in the first place, actually).
I work in the area and have gone a few times, just getting the usual thin-sliced sandwich, because after all who can resist a delicious steak sammich on fresh bread? Anyway, went this past Monday with a few friends and tried the Roadhouse Buck, which is thick-sliced with bleu cheese, fried onions, the whole deal. Looked awesome.
Only problem was, I got a super-tough piece of meat that was impossible to cut with a knife, let alone chew. Too lazy to bring it back but just not lazy enough to type for 30 seconds, I fired off an email saying just how sad it was to look at such a beautiful and sweet-smelling sandwich but not be able to eat it. I wasn’t even expecting a response back.
But instead I got this:
John,
My name is Dave and I am the owner. I can’t tell you how awful this makes me feel. You definitely had one of the rare bad experiences at our store, and I want to make it up to you. Can I bring you lunch tomorrow to your office on us? Usually, if there is something bad like this going on with our meat we catch it and it never makes it out the door. I can promise that this is an extremely rare occurrence, and it will not happen again. If I can bring you lunch tomorrow, I can hopefully help to prove this to you.
We care deeply about our guests and want them to have the best possible experience. If you let me know where you are, I will gladly bring you a roadhouse buck and a couple of other goodies.
Thank you very much for writing to us, hearing about problems and the rarer negative experiences allows us to continue to improve to provide our guests with only the best experiences. Please accept our apologies!
Dave Kassling
So now the owner is delivering sandwiches for me and a few of my co-workers today. Pretty awesome customer service (to the point that I’m willing to shill on their behalf). -John
Tender, delicious, steak sandwiches… or your next lunch is free?! It’s like win win… until somebody lies for the free food, and they stop responding to their emails.
Posted by The ML Team at 1:40 pm, May 19th, 2010 under Airing of Grievances, Tri Tip Grill/Buckhorn Grill.
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Holy crap. This was posted at 1:40pm…
At around noon I decided I was going here today, not having seen this post (I still haven’t read it!). I just finished my tri-tip sandwich and it was pretty damn awesome. Though my tri-tip was sliced thin so there really wasn’t a choice for it to be “chewy”. I had the meal so it was a full-size sandwich with the roadhouse onions. The sandwich was awesomely smokey, tender, and juicy (even though cooked to medium). A sandwich of this size would be more from anywhere else. The roadhouse onions were great – not too salty and not necessarily greasy to the touch, but I’m sure it was a grease-laden calorie bomb (especially considering the amount you get for the “meal” side).
The “meal” option is a bit over the ML limit, but for the amount of food you get, definitely worth it.
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I literally give up. You all can have the word “shill” no matter how you decide to use it. I guess this word lost its way the way the whole “figuratively”/”literally” battle was lost as well.
p.s. shill doesn’t mean to promote! it means to deceive!
Shill accepted.