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NCAA Airline Ventilation Probe Tests Nigeria’s Oversight

The NCAA airline ventilation probe into an Abuja–Calabar flight tests whether Nigeria’s regulator can turn a viral complaint into an enforceable safety finding.

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October 27, 2026

Clare Dominic

Nigeria’s civil aviation regulator has opened a review into how passengers on an Abuja–Calabar flight remained inside a closed cabin for roughly 50 minutes without working air conditioning, after a traveller said the heat caused him to bleed.

The complaint was posted on X on 26 October 2026 and answered publicly by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority. It has become the sharpest recent test of whether the regulator can turn a passenger’s account into a formal safety file. The NCAA airline ventilation probe now sits with the agency’s Directorate of Operations, Licensing and Training Standards.

One clarification for readers outside West Africa: the NCAA in this case is Nigeria’s civil aviation authority, not the United States college sports body that shares the acronym.

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What Is Confirmed In The NCAA Airline Ventilation Probe

Three things are on the record. The flight ran from Abuja to Calabar on Monday, 26 October, with a scheduled duration of 45 minutes. The regulator has referred the matter to its operations directorate. And no carrier name appears in the regulator’s public replies or in the published account of the passenger’s thread.

Everything else rests on one person’s testimony. Bashir Usman wrote that travellers boarded at 12:07 p.m., that the doors closed, and that the aircraft stayed on the ground for about 50 minutes with the engines off and no functioning air conditioning. He said the heat became unbearable and that he began bleeding. He said crew told him he would be disembarked, that other passengers objected, and that he was allowed to stay. The flight reached Calabar at 2:04 p.m.

The regulator’s spokesperson, identified in the exchange as Achimugu, confirmed the referral and set out the question he wants answered: why the aircraft door was shut without air conditioning or ventilation “in this season of extreme heat,” and why, on Usman’s account, no explanation was offered to passengers, as Punch reported.

Also unverified: the medical cause. Usman has said heat has triggered this reaction since childhood, a detail the regulator acknowledged in its reply. That distinction separates a claim about cabin conditions from a claim about a medical outcome, and the review is framed around the first.

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Still absent from the public record: any statement from the carrier, the aircraft type, the registration, the number of passengers aboard, cabin temperature readings, and a deadline for the report.

Why A Closed Cabin Door Became The Central Question

The regulator’s stated line of inquiry is narrow enough to produce a checkable answer. On a parked aircraft, cabin air normally comes from the auxiliary power unit driving the air-conditioning packs. Either that system was running and delivering conditioned air, or it was not. Flight data and maintenance records can settle it.

The gap is procedural. The decision to shut the doors sits with the captain under Nigerian operating practice, as in most jurisdictions. What the review will test is whether the sequence — doors closed, engines off, no ventilation, extended ground hold — was authorised, recorded and communicated to the cabin.

The Ebola Scare Sitting Behind A Cabin Crew Decision

The same week, Delta State’s health commissioner, Joseph Onojaeme, said the state had convened an emergency meeting of its health management team, begun training health workers, strengthened disease surveillance and moved to procure protective equipment after reports of a suspected imported Ebola case involving a woman who arrived at Abuja International Airport. He said no case had been recorded in Delta, per the state’s briefing.

That backdrop is not incidental. The NCAA spokesperson raised it directly, writing that “especially with the recent Ebola scare, cabin crew are expected to be vigilant,” and that a visible bleed can reasonably be read by crew as a possible medical emergency requiring removal and assessment.

His second point cut the other way. He warned passengers against physically preventing crew from carrying out safety duties, arguing that the delay in getting Usman assessed could have mattered “between life and death.” He added that the crew “was lenient,” and that other captains would have refused to fly until the passenger was removed for a check.

Both claims can be true at once: a cabin can be dangerously hot, and a crew can be right to want a bleeding passenger off the aircraft. The review only has to answer the first.

How South Africa Handled A Parallel Aviation Review

A comparison from the same month shows what a more documented process looks like. South Africa’s Civil Aviation Authority obtained flight data recordings and requested additional information from Airlink after two of the carrier’s passenger jets flew low over Cape Town’s DHL Stadium before the Springboks–All Blacks test on 29 August, the Associated Press reported.

SACAA named the airline, said it would issue a full report with recommendations, and confirmed that the carrier had withdrawn its application for a further flyover at Soweto’s FNB Stadium. Airlink chief executive de Villiers Engelbrecht issued a public statement acknowledging “valid questions and concerns,” and the airline disclosed that three senior captains with more than 75,000 combined flight hours were aboard. SACAA also noted that the two earlier flyovers had been approved under special air event rules.

Nigeria’s handling so far has leaned on a spokesperson’s posts rather than a published notice. That is faster, and it reached the passenger directly. It also means the public record contains no airline response to weigh against the complaint.

What The Completed Review Would Have To Show

A finding that the air-conditioning was serviceable but the ground hold was poorly managed points to scheduling and crew communication. A finding that the system was inoperative points to airworthiness and dispatch. A finding that no rule was broken would expose a gap between certification standards and what passengers actually experience in high heat.

None of those outcomes requires a viral tweet. All of them are easier to secure because one existed. The NCAA airline ventilation probe will be judged less on whether it sympathises with a passenger than on whether it publishes a report that names the aircraft, states the findings and attaches a consequence.

Until then, the most reliable reading is procedural: a regulator has accepted jurisdiction, requested records and named its directorate. The airline’s account, the maintenance history and the cabin temperature data remain unknown to the public.

For passengers who now document flights in real time, that asymmetry is the story. Complaint handling is turning into safety oversight, and the regulators who publish findings will set the standard the rest are measured against.

Frequently Asked Questions

What exactly is the NCAA investigating in the Abuja–Calabar flight case?

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority has referred the matter to its Directorate of Operations, Licensing and Training Standards. Its stated question is why the aircraft door was shut without functioning air conditioning or ventilation during an extended ground hold in extreme heat, based on passenger Bashir Usman’s account. A full report with findings has not been published.

Has the airline responded or been named publicly?

No airline statement appears in the public record, and no carrier name appears in the regulator’s public replies or in the published account of the passenger’s thread. The regulator’s spokesperson said by phone that he had been told the airline’s name.

Was the passenger’s bleeding caused by the cabin heat?

That is unconfirmed. Usman has said heat has triggered this reaction in him since childhood, and the regulator acknowledged that detail. The review is examining cabin conditions rather than issuing a medical finding.

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Clare Dominic is the Editor at AfriLatest. With a background in journalism and a passion for storytelling, she oversees the editorial process to ensure content is accurate, engaging, and relevant. Clare works closely with contributors to maintain the highest standards of journalistic integrity across all news, sports, and lifestyle coverage.

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Eight Days in Thailand: A Port Call, A Record, A Warning

Eight days in Thailand frames two dispatches: a US carrier crew’s record deployment and a Nigerian reporter’s infrastructure comparison.

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3 hours ago

October 27, 2026

Clare Dominic

Eight Days in Thailand: A Port Call, A Record, A Warning

How long does it take to see how a state treats the people who depend on it? Two unrelated dispatches that surfaced around the same news cycle settle on the same unit of measurement: eight days in Thailand. One is a letter from the acting US Navy secretary about a warship that spent 286 days at sea. The other is a Nigerian reporter’s account of covering the 2026 International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bangkok.

They share a city and a duration. They share almost nothing else, except that both turn on the same question about what a government owes the people inside its system. Read side by side, they also show how much of a global story is documented fact, how much is official denial, and how much is one observer’s honest impression.

What the Lincoln Letter Confirms, and What It Does Not

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao’s letter to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat on the Senate armed services committee, was sent on Tuesday. It confirms eight suicide attempts across the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group during its deployment, and states that no service member died by suicide.

Cao wrote: “Since the beginning of Lincoln’s deployment, there have been a total of eight suicide attempts across the strike group.” He attributed them to “the Lincoln crew and sailors from the carrier airwing, strike group and destroyer squadron staff, escorting destroyers and all embarked aviation squadrons.”

Al Jazeera reported that at least two involved attempts to go overboard. Cao’s letter describes two directly: an air wing sailor who jumped overboard in early August and was “quickly recovered”, treated and transferred off ship; and a sailor who tried to go overboard in March and was stopped by shipmates.

The timeline is documented. The Lincoln left California in November 2025 for the South China Sea, was rerouted in January to the US Central Command region, and took part in combat after the US-Israel war on Iran broke out at the end of February. It carried roughly 5,000 crew, made one brief port stop in December, and was at sea for 286 days before the crew disembarked in Thailand on September 1 — a record for the longest deployment. The ship had been due home in May; that date was repeatedly extended.

Cao’s letter also concedes material facts the Navy had earlier played down. Resupply limits during “major combat operations” cut main course options at meals from two to one. The ship had temporary “localized piping failures” and problems with its reverse osmosis desalination units. The acting secretary said repairs were completed and that potable water is tested daily.

Eight Days in Thailand Becomes a Measuring Stick

The Thailand the Lincoln’s crew reached was, by the BBC’s account, a stop of bars, malls and beach areas — the first time many of them had stood on land in months. Separately, TheCable published a Nigerian journalist’s first-person piece titled “Eight days in Thailand: the kind of Nigeria I want my children to see”, written after covering the IMF and World Bank meetings at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre.

The reporter used the BTS Skytrain and the MRT underground daily, paid fares “in the tens of baht”, and noted that the Skytrain opened in 1999 and the first underground metro line in 2004. Visits to Terminal 21, Platinum Fashion Mall and Chatuchak Weekend Market followed. There was no power outage at the hotel during the trip.

The piece is careful in ways much commentary is not. It states plainly that the air felt cleaner on the routes walked, then labels that “a personal observation, not a scientific comparison”. It concedes that eight days in Bangkok cannot describe every neighbourhood in Thailand, that the country has its own congestion, inequality and air-pollution problems, and that the World Bank classes it as an upper-middle-income economy rather than a high-income one.

That honesty matters, because the central comparison — Bangkok’s rail network against commuting in Lagos or Abuja — is a hypothesis, not a finding. The verifiable anchors are the opening dates of the rail lines and the World Bank income classification. The Nigerian side of the ledger is described in general terms: time and money lost in transit, reliance on informal transport, generator fuel and maintenance costs. No measured Nigerian figures are offered. A reader should notice that gap rather than fill it in.

What the Denials Did Not Dispute

President Donald Trump called the ship “beautifully maintained” and dismissed reporting on conditions as a “CNN fake news report. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the reports had been “completely misrepresented” and that “we make sure every ship, every crew, every captain has everything we can provide them at every single moment”. CENTCOM chief Brad Cooper visited the ship and said the team was “standing tall with immense, justified pride”.

None of those statements disputed the eight attempts. The figure came from the administration’s own acting Navy secretary, in writing, to a senator.

Gillibrand said in a statement to the BBC on Wednesday: “What Trump and Secretary Hegseth dismissed as ‘fake news’ turned out to be serious and deteriorating conditions for our service members.”

The wider data is not in dispute either. A USNI News analysis of military data found suicide remains a leading cause of death in the Navy and Marines, and the Veterans Administration reports higher suicide rates among veterans than among Americans who never served. A study of 956 sailors released in January 2025 found that personnel aboard Navy ships suffer the highest rates of “serious psychological distress” of any US military branch, citing poor habitability, noise and schedules that leave inadequate time for sleep.

Why the Thailand Stopover Carries the Story

US media reports have tied the ship’s supply shortages to Iranian attacks on US military sites in the Middle East, notably heavy damage to the naval base in Bahrain. The Navy was reportedly forced to use Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean as its main hub, some 3,540km from where the Lincoln was operating in the Gulf.

Harlan Ullman, a retired senior naval officer, told Al Jazeera that extended deployments “erode the readiness and capability of that ship the longer it’s at sea”, adding that ships of that complexity need maintenance that cannot be done under way. Port access is not a footnote. It determines whether 5,000 people get shore leave, hot water and fresh food.

That is the same variable the Nigerian reporter measured from the opposite direction: whether a city’s transport, drainage and power let ordinary people plan a working day.

One fact should be stated plainly. Neither source specifies how long the Lincoln’s crew stayed in Thailand. The eight days in Thailand belong to the reporter’s trip to Bangkok, not to the Navy’s timeline. Anyone merging the two is inventing a detail.

The eight days in Thailand that produced both dispatches will not settle any argument about US naval readiness or Nigerian infrastructure. They do establish something narrower and more useful: that a letter to a senator, a rail line opened in 1999, and an observer’s admitted bias are three different kinds of evidence — and that a reader who cannot tell them apart will be governed by whichever one is repeated loudest.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many suicide attempts were confirmed on the USS Abraham Lincoln?

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter sent Tuesday that there had been eight suicide attempts across the carrier strike group during the deployment, and that no service member died by suicide. At least two involved attempts to go overboard, according to Al Jazeera.

How long was the USS Abraham Lincoln at sea?

The carrier left California in November 2025, was rerouted to the Middle East in January, and had been at sea for 286 days when the crew disembarked in Thailand on September 1, a record for the longest deployment. The ship had originally been due home in May.

What does ‘eight days in Thailand’ refer to?

It is the title of a Nigerian journalist’s account of covering the 2026 IMF and World Bank Group Annual Meetings in Bangkok. It does not describe the length of the USS Abraham Lincoln crew’s stopover in Thailand, which neither the BBC nor Al Jazeera specifies.

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Owen Thiele Tinder Campaign: What Is Actually Verified

The Owen Thiele Tinder campaign casts him as a dating wildlife narrator. What is confirmed, what is promotional, and what remains undisclosed.

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October 26, 2026

Clare Dominic

Owen Thiele Tinder Campaign: What Is Actually Verified

Owen Thiele, the 30-year-old actor who plays Anton on FX’s Adults, is the face of a new Owen Thiele Tinder campaign for Group Hangouts, a feature that lets groups of friends meet other groups.

The spot was directed by twin sisters Fa and Fon Watkins. In it, Thiele narrates Gen Z dating as a wildlife documentarian, borrowing the cadence of Sir David Attenborough while watching people instead of birds. Variety reported the campaign and published an interview with Thiele on how it came together.

The verifiable core is small. Thiele appears in the advertisement. Fa and Fon Watkins directed it. The concept is bird-watching repurposed as people-watching. Everything past that point — media spend, target markets, release schedule, performance — has not been disclosed in the material available.

What The Owen Thiele Tinder Campaign Actually Confirms

The creative decision is specific. Thiele said the directors pitched a concept where he was bird-watching that was in fact people-watching, and that he signed on immediately. He also confirmed what he did not do: a British accent.

“I didn’t do a British accent, which is honestly the best, I think Tinder would have taken a fall of some kind,” he told Variety. “Stocks would have been down if I had done that.”

He was not new to the brand. Thiele said he had already been reading Tinder advertisements on his podcast, describing the company as a collaborative partner before the Group Hangouts approach. That is the confirmed record. The unconfirmed part is commercial: no figures, no named markets, no dates.

One caution applies to the whole package. A celebrity interview tied to a product launch is a promotional document as well as a factual one. Thiele’s description of the shoot can be checked against the finished video. His assessment of the campaign’s appeal cannot be checked against anything yet.

Ten Years Together, And A Pair Of Cut-Out Hands

The campaign is a second pass at an old assignment. Thiele has been with celebrity stylist Jared Ellner for a decade. Three months into the relationship, he said, a Tinder representative asked the couple to appear in a campaign.

“Our faces were cut out and it was just our hands interlocked,” he said. “So our hands are somewhere on a Tinder ad.”

Off screen, Thiele describes himself as an unreliable matchmaker. Most of his friends are single, he said, and his setups usually fail — with one exception. A friend he introduced to another friend has now been with that partner for eight years.

The feature itself is a structural shift, not just a slogan. As described, Group Hangouts moves the product from pairs into groups, which is a different social format from the one-to-one matching the brand was built on.

A Crowded 2026, With One Unanswered Question

The spot lands in a busy stretch, and the surrounding facts are checkable. Thiele confirmed that FX has not greenlit a third season of Adults, despite the second season ending with a kiss between his character, Anton, and Paul Baker. He said the writers have told the cast nothing. He also appears in the announced 13 Going on 30 sequel and in Peaked, an A24 comedy directed by his childhood friend Molly Gordon, working alongside Connor Storrie.

His wider public record is documented. On September 28 he spoke at Emerson College Los Angeles, where he discussed playing a Black queer character and said, “I’m so proud to be a Black queer on a Hulu show.” He also described the network rewriting Anton after the pilot to be lighter and closer to his own personality.

People reported that he posed with Andrew Garfield at the Academy Museum Gala on October 17, weeks after the two shared Delta Flight 958 from Los Angeles to New York, which diverted to Albuquerque on September 9. Delta’s statement said the aircraft diverted “due to a smoky odor in the aircraft” and landed uneventfully.

That timeline explains the casting logic. Thiele is a working actor with network credits, a podcast and a viral moment behind him — visible, but not saturated. Brands use that profile for targeted attention rather than blanket reach.

Why African Readers Should Separate The Ad From The Feature

Nothing in the source material places the campaign in any African market. No language versions, no broadcast windows, no local ambassadors, no pricing or availability detail for Group Hangouts itself.

For readers in Lagos, Nairobi, Accra or Johannesburg, the honest reading is this: a global celebrity campaign is evidence of marketing, not evidence of product availability. The two move on separate schedules. A viewer may see the spot on social platforms long before a feature appears in their own app, or never see it at all if the buy is restricted to specific regions. The test is not whether the advertisement travels. It is whether Group Hangouts does.

What To Watch

Three signals matter. First, whether Tinder publishes market-level detail for Group Hangouts, which would turn a creative talking point into a measurable rollout. Second, whether the spot is cut down or localized, a common indicator of where a brand intends to spend.

Third, Thiele’s calendar. A third season of Adults remains unannounced. Season two of Overcompensating, the Prime Video comedy in which he plays George, has no release date, though creator Benito Skinner told Thiele’s podcast that George is “a much bigger character” in the new run.

Until Tinder answers the distribution question, the Owen Thiele Tinder campaign is best read as what it is: a well-documented piece of casting with an undocumented commercial footprint.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Owen Thiele Tinder campaign promoting?

It promotes Group Hangouts, a Tinder feature that, as described in reporting on the campaign, lets groups of friends meet other groups of friends. Thiele appears in the spot as a wildlife-style narrator observing Gen Z dating.

Who directed the Tinder advertisement starring Owen Thiele?

Twin sisters Fa and Fon Watkins directed the spot, according to Variety’s interview with Thiele. He said they pitched the bird-watching concept that became the ad.

Has Tinder said where or when the campaign will run?

No market list, release schedule or spending figure was disclosed in the available material. That includes African markets, which are not mentioned in any of the reporting reviewed.

Is Adults renewed for a third season?

Not yet. Thiele said a third season has not been greenlit and that the writers have not told the cast what would happen to Anton and Paul Baker.

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Texas Roadhouse Steak Complaint: What Was Verified

Kenneth Card’s Texas Roadhouse steak complaint alleges sirloin replaced filet mignon three times. The chain confirms one error, not the pattern.

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24 hours ago

October 26, 2026

Clare Dominic

Texas Roadhouse Steak Complaint: What Was Verified

The Texas Roadhouse steak complaint from Kenneth Card has become a viral test of what a restaurant chain can confirm and what a customer can only allege. Card, an Illinois man and former cook, says the Texas Roadhouse location in Forsyth served him sirloin instead of the eight-ounce filet mignon he ordered on three separate visits. Texas Roadhouse says it corrected one mix-up but has not been able to verify the three-visit pattern. That gap, not the cut of beef alone, is the real story.

What Kenneth Card Alleged and What the Company Confirmed

Card shared his account on TikTok in early October, according to The U.S. Sun. The video drew more than 30,000 views. He told Fox News Digital he had visited the Forsyth restaurant about once a week for more than a year and knew the staff. He also said his kitchen experience let him identify cuts by texture and appearance.

The timeline Card describes has three parts. On the first visit, he questioned the steak and staff replaced it with a filet. On the second, he ate the sirloin without raising a complaint. On the third, he asked for a manager, staff took the steak back and later confirmed it was not the cut he ordered, and he received a replacement to go. He posted the video after returning home.

Texas Roadhouse acknowledged the video and said it looked into the claims. A spokesperson told Fox News Digital the company had ‘not been able to track that this occurred on three occasions,’ but confirmed one mix-up at the restaurant. The spokesperson said management ‘quickly made it right’ by providing the filet mignon. The chain also said team members double-check food for quality and accuracy as orders leave the kitchen.

Card’s account of the manager’s response is disputed. He claims the manager acted as if he were crazy and said a third error was impossible. He says the manager had no answer when he asked how it happened if it was impossible. The company statement does not address that exchange directly.

Why the Texas Roadhouse Steak Complaint Is Hard to Verify

The Texas Roadhouse steak complaint therefore turns on evidence that neither side has made public in full. Card has sensory expertise and a consistent routine. The company has kitchen records, staff accounts and transaction data. Publicly available accounts do not include receipts, order tickets or dated complaint logs. That leaves two verifiable facts: Card says he was served the wrong cut three times, and the company confirms one corrected error.

Price figures also vary by outlet. The Economic Times, citing Fox News Digital and the restaurant’s website, put an eight-ounce sirloin at about $20 and filet mignon at about $30 at the Forsyth location. Yahoo Life put sirloin at around $10 and filet at $30 to $35. The difference matters because ‘one-third of the price’ and ‘two-thirds of the price’ tell different stories about the incentive to swap cuts.

The company’s wording is narrow. It did not say Card was wrong on all three visits. It said it could not track the claimed pattern. That is a statement about records, not a finding of fraud. Card’s wording is also narrow: he says he was sold the wrong cut and warned other customers to check their orders. He does not claim the chain has a company-wide policy of substituting sirloin.

What the Dispute Says About Global Chain Accountability

The case travels beyond Illinois because it tests a common problem for chain restaurants and their customers. A single kitchen error is ordinary. A repeated error at one branch is a management problem. A pattern across a brand is a corporate problem. Each claim requires different evidence.

For customers in Africa and other markets, the lesson is procedural rather than culinary. Viral video can force a company response. It cannot by itself prove frequency. The stronger record is a receipt, a photo taken before the meal is eaten, a server’s name and a complaint made at the table. Texas Roadhouse itself advised customers who believe they received the wrong food or were overcharged to alert their server while they are at the restaurant.

The chain’s response also shows how companies separate remediation from admission. Texas Roadhouse says it fixed the confirmed error. It does not accept Card’s larger pattern. That is a standard defense in service disputes: correct the transaction, contest the narrative. The U.S. Sun reported that Texas Roadhouse did not immediately return its request for comment, while the company had already given a statement to Fox News Digital.

Card told Fox News Digital he did not expect to return to the Forsyth location. ‘I think I’m done going in there,’ he said. ‘I’ll try somewhere else.’ The company, for its part, says its kitchen checks are meant to catch such errors before food leaves the kitchen. Neither statement settles the three-visit claim.

The big picture is not a verdict on every Texas Roadhouse steak complaint. It is a reminder that viral stories produce two kinds of facts. One set is documented: a TikTok video, a company statement, posted menu prices and a confirmed single correction. The other set is alleged: the three-time pattern and the manager’s reported reaction. The Texas Roadhouse steak complaint matters because it shows how quickly the first set can be mistaken for proof of the second.

Frequently Asked Questions

What did Kenneth Card claim about Texas Roadhouse?

Card claims the Forsyth, Illinois, Texas Roadhouse served him sirloin instead of the eight-ounce filet mignon he ordered on three separate visits. He shared his account on TikTok and said he recognized the difference from his experience as a former cook.

What did Texas Roadhouse confirm?

Texas Roadhouse confirmed one mix-up at the restaurant and said management quickly made it right by providing the filet mignon. The company said it had not been able to track that the error occurred on three occasions.

How much do sirloin and filet mignon cost at the Forsyth location?

The Economic Times, citing Fox News Digital and the restaurant’s website, reported an eight-ounce sirloin at about $20 and filet mignon at about $30. Yahoo Life gave different figures, putting sirloin at around $10 and filet at $30 to $35.

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