Steakhouse hits back at private chef’s cake claim

A private chef accused the staff at a steakhouse of hogging half of the cake he had baked for a birthday dinner this week – but the restaurant blasted it as “completely false”.

A private chef accused the staff at a steakhouse of hogging half of the cake he had baked for a birthday dinner this week – but the restaurant blasted it as “completely false”.

Ryan Nordheimer, 25, claimed the staff at Quality Meats, in New York, only served the dinner party’s 12 guests a “tiny” slice of the “massive” 15-layer Funfetti cake he’d spent six hours baking for the occasion.

Ryan made the claims in a TikTok that has been viewed more than eight million times, the New York Post reported.

“At the end of the dinner, when we had asked our waiter where the cake leftovers were, we’re expecting them to bring out the remaining half of the cake – but instead, they just say that there’s no cake left,” Ryan said in the video.

The cook, who lives in the East Village, had requested to personally slice the cake – which he claimed was worth “hundreds of dollars” — but the restaurant declined, calling it a “safety hazard,” he explained in the three-minute clip.

“So the only explanation is that this high-end, New York City Midtown steakhouse took the cake back into the kitchen, cut all of us meagre slices of cake to eat, and they had just eaten the rest of it themselves,” he continued.

Ryan Nordheimer said the birthday cake took six hours to make and was worth "hundreds of dollars." Picture: TikTok/@ryannordheimer

Quality Meats served the 12 dinner guests “tiny” slice of the “massive” 15-layer Funfetti cake, Ryan told his followers. Picture: TikTok/@ryannordheimer

The cake carnage quickly drew outrage.

“As a former fine dining server we would be fired if we did this,” one TikToker wrote.

“This is INSANE and you should confront the restaurant,” another spewed.

A representative for Quality Meats, however, insisted there were only two slices of cake left – “not half the cake” as Ryan claimed – and that staff had not treated themselves to the dessert.

“While we acknowledge that we failed to pack up the remaining two slices, the accusations that the staff ate the cake are completely false,” the spokesperson said.

The restaurant did eat humble pie, reaching out to Ryan to apologise and offer him a complimentary dinner.

Ryan, for his part, changed his tune in a separate TikTok posted Friday – and asked his fired-up followers to “take a chill pill” on the frosting fiasco.

“There’s plenty of people at that restaurant just trying to make a living like all of us, and they’ve admitted it was a mistake, and I think we all make mistakes, so I can live with that,” he said.

This story originally appeared on the New York Post and reproduced with permission

Originally published as Steakhouse hits back at private chef’s cake claim