Chef At San Francisco Restaurant Slams Steak On Sidewalk To ‘Tenderize’ It [Video]

A chef at a San Francisco restaurant was captured on video slamming raw steak on a sidewalk. The man in the footage is outside of Lucky River restaurant, a place that serves Chinese food in the city’s Sunnyside neighborhood, KPIX reports. It happened on November 21.

The chef is seen picking up large portions of raw meat and beating it on the pavement. A health inspector went in to check things out. According to the report, staff acted as though nothing was wrong with someone throwing slabs of meat on the ground to tenderize it. They said they were also trying to “defrost” the meat by slamming it on the concrete. According to SF Weekly, the meat wasn’t served and eventually disposed of.

“The beef was destroyed, and we did not serve it.”

When a news crew inspected the scene where the chef was slamming the meat on the sidewalk, they found cigarette butts, chewed-up gum, bacteria, and dirt.

The owner insists that the steak being pounded on the pavement by the man in the video is an “isolated incident.”

Steve Vender and London Lacey are neighbors of the Lucky River restaurant and agree what the cook did was fairly disgusting.

“It’s highly unsanitary, I don’t know how they’re gonna clean the meat off after that. They’re gonna wash it but it certainly doesn’t look very appealing,” says Vender.

Lucky River scored a satisfactory rating on the last food inspection. One review on Yelp aren’t as nice, claiming that a boiled caterpillar was in the vegetables.

Once the video was released, the San Francisco Public Health Department told the owners of Lucky River they have one month to change their ways or face closure. Employees are required to attend an 8-hour food manager class, get food handlers cards, and enroll in remedial food safety courses within one month.

A Live Leak commenter wrote this: “Maybe it’s what makes their Mongolian beef taste so good.”

Restaurants sometimes get caught when they do something that wouldn’t normally pass food inspection. KPIX is waiting for the last food inspection record on the restaurant that was done over the summer.

As a paying customer at a restaurant, it might not be very appetizing for someone to order something containing meat that was slammed on the sidewalk outside. Will Lucky River remedy their current image after this photo was posted online?

[Image via Live Leak]