Comments on: Recalling Mr. Steak

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:03:22 +0000

Just today, my wife and I were talking about Mr. Steak and how much I enjoyed the Teriyaki Steak. I worked at the one on Madison Ave (in Sacto) for a year or two. It was my first job and very fun with lots of interesting stories mostly of the fun people who worked there. Too bad the chain didn’t last…

By: CoolDMZ

CoolDMZ — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:56:00 +0000

Thanks Diane! This is a good opportunity for me to point out again to all the naysayers that I was indeed correct about the Matt Chicken dish.

By: diane benjamin

diane benjamin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:44:35 +0000

There is also a Mr. Steak in Manchester Mo on Manchester road; (a fairly well known road in MO.)

By: diane benjamin

diane benjamin — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:42:58 +0000

Mr. Steak is alive and well in St. Charles Mo right on Hiway 70 and about a block from Hiway 94
My husband I and eat there at least once a month; They still give free meals to the birthday person.
You can probably get their exact address by calling information. Hope this helps.

By: CoolDMZ

CoolDMZ — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:13:36 +0000

HELLS YEAH!!! Scroll down to Children’s Menu…
http://www.mrsteakstcharles.com/page3.php

Thank you Balaclava Man, you are my hero. VINDICATION!!!

By: Balaclava Man

Balaclava Man — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:12:47 +0000

There is a Mr. Steak open and thriving in St. Charles Missouri. The owner is a pretty cool guy named Blake. Call him at (636)946-7444. He will be a font of knowledge as he’s worked there since…well forever.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:31:08 +0000

I used to go to Mr. Steak as a kid some 25 years ago and I would always get a sandwich called the Fingerlength, which was a hamburger steak of some kind that had an amazing flavor. I was wondering if anyone new how I could track down a recipe?

By: julie millikan

julie millikan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:00:14 +0000

My dad owned a Mr. Steak franchise and I worked for him for 8 years. I know he has the recipe for kabobs. Also, the children’s menu did not have personal names. I have never heard of Matt chicken. My dad sold his franchise long ago and all his Mr. Steaks are now different restaurants

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:55:33 +0000

By the way, the kebob sauce at the Boardman Ohio Mr. Steak, which I prepared many times, included ketchup, vegetable oil, pepper, onion powder, and worchestershire sauce, no french dressing.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:52:38 +0000

Yes, Matt chicken was on the menu. I worked at Mr. Steak in Boardman Ohio while going to College in the mid 80’s. There is also a website for a Mr. Steak in St Charles Mo that apparently is still open. The online menu lists Matt Chicken. Here’s the link
http://www.mrsteakstcharles.com/

By: NotMalibuBarbie

NotMalibuBarbie — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:42:09 +0000

My first job was at Happy Steak, on Arden Way near Howe, in 1976. It was a chain, and this one was owned by an older couple who wouldn’t make you work Sundays if you were “a churchgoing girl” so of course I lied and said I was. Since it was near I-80 we got lots of trucker traffic… and there was one weird old trucker guy missing an arm who kept asking me to marry him. (Needless to say, I didn’t.)

But yes, they advertised it as being “Home of the Golden Spud” and even more special, they served “Happy Toast” with every meal.

However, the good news was they closed at 9, so I could get out of there when I worked Fri or Sat nights and go to CSUS drama department parties, which didn’t get going until 11-ish after plays closed…. (During the time when the now famous Tom Hanks and I used to cut classes and hang out in the CSUS drama dept’s Green Room and do weird improvs all afternoon to amuse our friends….)

Ah…how I miss my misspent youth….

By: Darcy

Darcy — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:50:50 +0000

I was a prep cook at a Mr.steak in Greeley colorado in the early 80’s and remember making alot of those kabobs.I don’t know if the recipe varied from place to place, but the way we made them was to skewer the meat,green pepper,onion and mushrooms and cover them with straight french dressing. The best flavor is 24 to 48 hours. Then cook and serve on a bed of uncle bens wild rice.I still make them this way for my family and they take me back in time some 20 years.

By: bekka

bekka — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:21:58 +0000

Not to butt in but, I worked at a Mr Steak in the Southeast and the name of the chicken meal on the children’s menu was definitely “chicken little” don’t ask me why.

By: brenbart

brenbart — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:09:15 +0000

I used to be a prep cook oh so many years ago at a Mr. Steak and the kabob sauce recipe was something like french dressing, Open Pit and soy sauce.

By: J

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:06:57 +0000

I worked at Mr. Steak from 1982 – 1984 (high school) in Stockton, CA. I don’t even remember having a kids menu, though I guess we must have. It was a franchise the first year I was there, and had a ’sandwich bar’ at lunch time. Why would anyone go to a restaurant and make their own sandwich? Confusing. They also had a different menu for Sunday lunch, which we called ‘the geritol express’, because that’s when all the old folks came in for their liver and onions, which wasn’t on the menu any other time. The small steak was called the “petite cut”, which I remember because the Stockton folks weren’t always so good at pronouncing “petite”, and sometimes I’d get someone asking for a ‘pet-ite’ cut of steak.

The second year I was there, corporate came in and took over…they fancified the place, and made it nicer…even brought in fancy steaks like Rib Eye and so on. No more wine in a box, we actually had to open the bottle at tableside!

I got fired in 1984 for writing “Fuck You” on the back of the ticket that I gave to my superviser when he ate his dinner, in some ill-considered idea of a joke. They closed a few months later, so I guess I had the last laugh.

Fun post, good times.

By: sanzoe

sanzoe — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:21:46 +0000

Does anyone have the recipe for the kabobs that Mr. Steak had? I have looked everywhere and no luck.

By: Carla Bartolomei

Carla Bartolomei — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:49:06 +0000

Jannelle, Did you ever find the kabob recipe? We got to talking about jobs we had as teenagers and someone said they had been looking for Mr. Steak’s kabob sauce recipe! So we “googled” Mr. Steak and found your link…

By: Janelle

Janelle — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:29:11 +0000

Debbie is correct about the kids’ menu. I worked at the Mr. Steak in Chico in the late 70’s. I was actually looking for a kabob recipe they had, but I guess that is nearly impossible to find at this point. I believe there was a Mr. Steak in Roseville. Is the one in Yuba City still open? The one in Chico had a bar attached called the Almond Tree. We used to play liar’s dice after work. If someone didn’t score, it was called “Yuba City”!

By: CoolDMZ

CoolDMZ — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:10:38 +0000

THANKS debbie! Where were you way back in October when I wrote this, I needed you then.

I’m glad you found us and always glad to be proven right.

By: debbie

debbie — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:47:17 +0000

I worked at a Mr. Steak in high school…YES, there was a Matt Chicken. In fact, Many of the children’s meal names that runnergirl included are Mr. Steak kid’s meal names…there was a beef cassidy, billy the shrimp, sam ham, and frank furter.

By: Sackid

Sackid — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:45:11 +0000

Let’s talk burger joints. Who remembers Gordons on Freeport Blvd and the Patio on Fruitridge Road?

By: cooldmz

cooldmz — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:40:57 +0000

oddly enough, the more this drags on the more increasingly my thirst for knowledge will only be slaked by a scan of a Mr. Steak menu circa 1984 bearing the picture i have in my head of an intrepid cartoon adventurer named Matt Chicken.

By: runnergirl

runnergirl — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:21:43 +0000

Wow, you know about Google too? I just figured that any Matt Chicken menu item from ANY restaurant might appease you this late in our commenting game.

By: CoolDMZ

CoolDMZ — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:02:56 +0000

Wow, I wish I had thought of Googling the phrase “Matt Chicken”!! Just kidding. Great find, and I’m pretty sure the Matt Chicken at Mr. Steak was chicken strips too.

I wish there was someone out there who could provide a definitive answer…maybe someone who took me there several times…and paid…and raised me and sent me to college and stuff…

By: runnergirl

runnergirl — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:47:41 +0000

Since we’re up to 20 comments with still no answer to the “Matt Chicken” question, I went all googly and found a restaurant called BJ Clancy’s that has an item called “Matt Chicken” on its kids’ menu, along with other items with names so friendly who would want to eat ‘em:

http://www.foodspot.com/bjclancys/menu.html

Just for Kids
(12 years and under)
Kids meals come with french fries and applesauce.

Hamburger Hank 3.69
1/3 pound

Matt Chicken 3.49
Tender, juicy chicken breast strips fried golden

Billy the Shrimp 4.99
A whole mess of golden fried shrimp (approx. 25 pieces).

Beef Cassidy 4.99
Tender sirloin, broiled to your liking (6 oz. USDA choice angus)

The Skipper’s Scallops 2.99
6 Surimi scallops fried golden. Served with cocktail sauce.

Floyd the Fish 4.49
Golden fried haddock fillets, served with tartar sauce.

Sam Ham 3.29
Grilled, garnished with grilled pineapple.

Frank Furter 2.89
All beef corn dog on a stick.

Chester’s Triple Decker Grilled Cheese Sandwich 2.99