Nexis > wrote:

>"Steve Pope" > wrote in message

>> Nexis > wrote:

>>> She
>>> stomped off with the steak in hand and returned ten minutes
>>> later with the SAME STEAK. They'd cooked it even more, and
>>> returned it to me.

>> This would be illegal for them to do, at least in California.

>Why? Just curious...
>It happened in California, in fact. San Diego, to be precise.
>It's happened more than once there too, but not going from well to
>leather...it was from rare to medium well.

Well, if they actually put it on the grill, and returned it,
then that is illegal because they cannot take food that has
been delivered to a table and then process it again in the kitchen.
They theory is that is has been out of their control. (When
they weren't looking, the customer may have sprinkled the
steak with poison or spores or something... or maybe they
coughed on it or touched it with their unwashed hands... and therefore
the restaurant risks infecting their other customers by doing this.)

Steve