--- title: "Steak SWAP row: Texas Roadhouse regular claims he was served sirloin for filet three times!" url: https://badiyaa.com/texas-roadhouse-tiktok-sirloin-filet-swap-claim/ published: 2026-10-27T20:31:00+00:00 modified: 2026-10-27T20:31:00+00:00 section: Offbeat publisher: Badiyaa --- # Steak SWAP row: Texas Roadhouse regular claims he was served sirloin for filet three times! Kenneth Card's TikTok has topped 31,000 views. The chain confirmed one mix-up at its Forsyth, Illinois, restaurant, fixed on the spot, but says it cannot confirm three. He ordered the filet. He says he got the sirloin. And he says it happened THREE times at the same steakhouse. Illinois diner Kenneth Card has turned a dinner complaint into a full-blown internet steak fight. In a TikTok posted on October 5, he claimed the Texas Roadhouse in Forsyth, Illinois, kept bringing him a sirloin when he had paid for an 8-ounce filet mignon. The clip has passed 31,000 views, and this week the chain finally answered him. Its reply did not back his count. ## The claim: one regular, three wrong steaks Card says he was no casual visitor. By his account, he ate at the Forsyth restaurant roughly once a week for more than a year and got friendly with the staff there. His version of events runs like this. On the first occasion, he told staff he thought the cut was wrong, and they replaced it with a filet. On the second, he ate what he was given and said nothing. On the third, he ordered filet mignon again, spotted a sirloin on his plate and asked for a manager. In the video, he says his server went to get a “second opinion” and came back agreeing the steak was a sirloin. He then claims a manager looked at him as if he were “stupid or crazy” and told him a swap was “impossible,” because every plate passes a manager in the kitchen. Card says he asked how this one got through and got no answer. He waited for a replacement, took it home in a box and posted his warning. “Talking about getting ripped off!” he wrote in the caption. The on-screen text was blunter: “Texas Roadhouse shame on you!” ## Why he says he can tell Card says he spent years as a cook in hotel and restaurant kitchens, cutting and preparing steaks. “I know what types of meat I get whenever I receive it,” he said in a follow-up interview. He described the filet as a steak that “melts in your mouth,” while the sirloin, in his words, is “a little grittier, a little chewier.” The anatomy is on his side on one point: the two cuts come from different muscles. In North America, filet mignon is cut from the small end of the beef tenderloin, a muscle along the spine that does little work, which makes it lean and very tender. Each animal yields only a small amount, which is why it sits near the top of most steakhouse menus. Sirloin comes from farther back, works harder and eats firmer. ## The math behind the outrage At the Forsyth location’s listed prices, the 8-ounce sirloin costs $19.49 and the 8-ounce filet costs $29.99. That is a gap of $10.50 a plate, so the filet costs about 54 percent more than the sirloin ($29.99 divided by $19.49 is roughly 1.54). If all three swaps happened as Card describes and none had been corrected, the difference would add up to $31.50. The chain disputes that count, and by Card’s own account the first steak was replaced on the spot. ## The chain’s answer Texas Roadhouse did not accept the “three times” claim. A spokesperson said the company had “not been able to track that this occurred on three occasions,” but confirmed one mix-up at the Forsyth restaurant that staff fixed there and then, adding that management “quickly made it right.” In a separate statement, the company said: “While we can’t confirm this happened on multiple occasions, when Mr. Card brought this to our attention; it was made right by our team.” It added: “We have processes in place to double-check food for quality and accuracy before it leaves the kitchen.” Its advice to any diner who thinks they got the wrong cut or the wrong bill is to tell a server at the table, while the restaurant can still fix it. The stakes are not small for the brand. Founded in Clarksville, Indiana, in 1993 and now based in Louisville, Kentucky, Texas Roadhouse overtook Olive Garden in April 2025 as the largest casual-dining chain in the US by one industry ranking. Its meat cutters even compete in an annual in-house “Meat Hero Competition.” ## The comments split Viewers did not agree. “This has been going on for years,” one commenter claimed. Another said a strip or ribeye order had been swapped for sirloin “many times.” Others pushed back hard. “I’ve never had an issue with Texas roadhouse,” wrote one. “Why do you keep going back if this continues to happen?” asked another, and one viewer mocked his price comparison, saying sirloin “hasn’t been $10 this century.” Nothing in the clip proves what was on the earlier plates, and only one mix-up has been confirmed by the company. Card, for his part, has made up his mind about Forsyth. “I think I’m done going in there,” he said. “I’ll try somewhere else.” ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: Texas Roadhouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Roadhouse) - [Wikipedia: Filet mignon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filet_mignon) *Image: Rick Obst, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. [How we work](https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/).*