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He took his dine-and-dash meal to go.

A well-dressed man in a suit was caught on a restaurant’s surveillance camera wrapping a pricey steak in a cloth napkin at a California restaurant, then casually walking out with it — and skipping out on the bill.

In a twist on a typical dine-and-dash, the clean-cut crook is shown taking a bite or two from the juicy, 20-ounce porterhouse with sides and looking around nervously at the House of Beef in Oakdale, according to Fox40.com.

Then he grabs the linen napkin from a basket of rolls, wraps the dripping steak in it, gets up, walks to the front door and leaves.

“What type of person will take a steak and watch the juice drip off and then wrap it in a linen napkin?” Denise Loya, a server at the restaurant, told the local station. “It’s just highly unusual.”

And she has a real beef with the steak snatcher, whom she called a “slimeball.”

Adding insult to injury — and perhaps explaining the doggy-bag dash — the man first chowed down on a lobster tail and drank a 20-ounce beer before skipping out on the $56 bill with steak in hand, workers told the station.

Restaurant owner Steve Medlen urged viewers to help catch the jerk responsible for the high-steaks theft.

“He’s unethical,” Medlen said, adding that he called cops. “We want to take this person off the street.”

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