A New York chef and influencer is clearing up some not-so-sweet details after he went viral for accusing a local restaurant staff of “eating half” of his friend’s birthday cake.
Ryan Nordheimer, who has 300,000 TikTok followers, first shared a glimpse of his “funfetti birthday cake” recipe on Oct. 1, when he revealed at the end of the video that he believed the restaurant “ate half the cake for itself.”
After being asked to clarify, the 25-year-old influencer made a follow-up video, in which he again claimed that the rest of the cake — which took him 5 or 6 hours to make — ended up with the staff at the restaurant. the place where he celebrated his friend’s birthday.
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Nordheimer said he first called the location — which he did not name — ahead of time and offered to cut the cake himself, but the person who answered the phone told him it would be a “safety hazard” and insisted the staff lay off the cake.
As Nordheimer explained, the staff “ended up taking the cake back to the kitchen to serve it,” and he and his friends were served what he described as “thin” slices of cake. After making a rough estimate of how many small slices would come from the cake, Nordheimer believed they were only served half of the cake. But he and his friends left the restaurant empty-handed, without a cake in sight.
“At the end of dinner, when we asked the waiter where the rest of the cake was… they just said there was no more cake,” he recalled. “So the only explanation is that this high-end meat restaurant in New York took the cake back to the kitchen, cut meager slices of the cake for all of us to eat, and just ate the rest for themselves.”
Nordheimer then clarified that he believed the staff deserved a “sweet treat” but that the cake was his “hard work” and a birthday present for his friend.
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Just a day later, Nordheimer returned to TikTok with an update on the pie dilemma, revealing that three different people from the steakhouse’s management team had called him to confirm that they had “neglected to return” a “part of the pie” after checking the video’s security.
“Most likely they forgot about it and it was left in the kitchen,” Nordheimer recalled being told by phone. “They were super nice and offered a free dinner for two at their restaurant to obviously make up for this whole situation. It’s obviously disappointing that we didn’t get leftovers, but what most likely happened — and I have to think — is that it was a busy Saturday night. .. unfortunately my cake ended up on the chopping block at the end of the evening.”
While the influencer didn’t directly name the restaurant he says misplaced his dessert, fans on social media were quick to point the finger at Quality Meats — a steakhouse that ended up flooded with commenters asking who ate the birthday cake this week.
A rep for Quality Meats told PEOPLE on Oct. 5 that they “proactively reached out to Ryan” and had been in contact for the past few days.
“We invited him to a complimentary dinner and apologized for the lack of communication from our team on the evening of his visit,” the representative said. “Whenever a guest brings their own dessert, the team tries to estimate the size of the cake slices using clipboards in case the guest wants seconds. After the party of 12 was served, there were only two slices left — not half of the cake.” “To be clear, our team reviewed the security footage of the kitchen that night to get an accurate idea of how much cake was left at the end dinners,” the representative continued. “Whilst we admit we failed to pack the remaining two pieces, allegations that staff ate the cake are completely false.”
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In his latest video on the subject, the influencer asked his followers to “take a chill pill” when leaving comments on Instagram, adding that he doesn’t think the staff “thinks or deserves that.”
“If there’s an upside to this whole thing, it’s that my friend whose birthday it was absolutely loves the fact that the whole thing blew up and thinks it’s so funny and hilarious to see this in the tabloids or whatever,” he said.
“So maybe the birthday present was the party we had along the way.”
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