On Wednesday a chef pleaded guilty to second-degree assault for stabbing a waiter who criticized him for using a rotten tomato in his cooking.

The victim, 18-year-old Martin Vu, threatened the chef, Mohammed Uddin, 43, he was going to tell the manager Uddin was cooking with a rotten tomato because "Mohammed didn't care what I told him." Vu told police he wanted to make sure the customers were getting fresh food.

Vu says that after he came back from the kitchen, Uddin came up behind him and struck him on the head with a spoon.

"I turned around and Mohammad had a kitchen knife in his hand," Vu says in his statement.

Vu says that Uddin then attacked him with the 12-inch knife.

Vu received no sustaining injuries. Uddin will be sentenced to one year in county jail May 17.