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Restaurateur Offers Free Steak Dinner to Battered United Airlines Passenger

Jeff Ruby’s steakhouses have consistently been highly rated, so the meal will likely be way better than whatever Dr. Dao is getting in the hospital.

On Sunday night, United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz took another swing at an apology for allowing a passenger to be violently dragged out of one of his company's planes. "It's not so much what I thought, it's what I felt. Probably the word 'ashamed' comes to mind," Munoz told Good Morning America on Wednesday morning. Munoz said that he had not been able to contact the passenger, Dr. David Dao, but—after initially describing the man as "disruptive and belligerent"—he finally admitted that Dao was not at fault, and probably shouldn't have been assaulted for refusing to surrender his seat.

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The silver lining in this cloud of customer abuse? A Cincinnati steakhouse owner has offered to give Dao a free steak dinner when he finally lands in Kentucky. "Our Louisville @TheRealJeffRuby Steakhouse wants to buy the good Dr. and his family dinner at our restaurant Please let him know," Ruby tweeted on Monday morning.

Ruby, who owns five restaurants in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, has continued to tweet about United's WWE Raw-worthy performance and—like many of us—seems to have his fingers crossed that Dao will pursue legal action against the airline.

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