[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Truth about Restaurants (Page 1 of 5)
Posted: 7/21/2004 7:36:33 PM EDT
| Ok, most of us worked in the food business one time or another, did you ever do something you hoped the customer never found out about? I’m a cook and worked at many restaurants and witnessed food being dropped on the floor and picked up and served all the time. At the restaurant I’m at now we have something called a wing hunt. When a customer orders say 12 wings and we only have 11 we go on a wing hunt. (Look under stations etc. for a dropped wing and pop it in the microwave and wola we got 12). Its sounds bad but when we do it our entire kitchen staff is in hysterics its pretty funny. Most of us smoke so we try to get the orders out as fast as possible so we can take smoke breaks. If we didn’t do the hunt, we would have to wait 8 minutes for wings to cook and in the time a rush could happen then we might not be able to smoke for another 3 hours… You wouldn’t believe the secrets cooks keep, do you have any stories of your own? |
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Classy. Remind me never to eat at a restaurant in Ohio. Or at least yours. |
Farva: Give me a double bacon cheeseburger. Fastfoodguy:<into mic> Double bacon cheeseburger......it's for a cop. Farva: What the hell's that all about? You gonna spit in it now? Fastfoodguy: No, I just told him that so he makes it good. <into mic> Don't spit in that cop's burger......Want me to dipa-size your meal for 25 cents? Farva: Want me to punch-a-size your face, for free? |
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I worked at a lot of restaurants and always got on people's ass about that shit. When I was 18 I worked at Macayo's mexican restaurant. The afternoon I started I was throwing away the salsa from cleaning a table. This waitress said "What are you doing!!!???", I replied "Uh...throwing it away". She told me we never throw salsa away, we recycle it. I told her "You can't do that". Her excuse was because they are in those little vase looking carafes that it's okay to put it back. When I told her that people still dip chips into it and I even find kids crayons and shit in 'em, she said that doesn't matter. Needless to say, I never "recycled" a damn thing there! |
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Man I dated a waitress a long time ago and I think I heard just about everything. From wiping uncooked meat on certain areas of the body, to spitting in salads and soup, cigarette ashes in sauces, to recycling tea from half drank glasses. The one that I didn't believe was the Visene treatment. She claimed that when they had a shitty customer they would place a liberal doseage of Visene in the food, claiming that it caused a terrible case of the runs. Don't know if that's true or not. The other thing I clearly remember is that the cooks used to get SUPER pissed if you sent the food back. I heard tales of dipping the returned item (steak, chop, etc) in the garbage bucket, microwaving it and sending it right back out. I could go on and on, but I think some things are better left unsaid. This is probably why I rarely eat out at all. -REAPER2502 |
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I worked in asian restaurants and buffets and I always saw cock roaches in the kitchen but we cleaned up every night and the left over food at the buffet always got thrown out or a guy picked it up to feed his hogs. we didnt serve food that was dropped, they use to leave the egg rolls and left over rice that was used to make fried riceon the shelf all night and sometimes cock roaches would crawl in it.  every restaurant has roaches |
I think I would just bring something from home, or go in somewhere you can observe your food the whole time, or a convenience store. The LEOs in our area, just don't eat much fast food period. And rarely eat out for that matter. Small towns, plenty of thugs they have arrested....... 
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Visene 100% True 
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but still 
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Visit restaurants on their down time, don’t go when it gets busy. When it gets busy it’s hard to stay civilized. We had this one special were how many wings you bought you got free. If the customer ordered 100 he got 100 free. We have to count the wings. Kitchen work sucks and it doesn’t pay. |
Grow up or fuck off. Offshore is right. In my line of work people die with your attitude.What a loser you are. |
wow.....that's something to be proud of.... 
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A very good friend of mine worked at a Taco Bell when he was in high school. There was another employee that they all thought was very strange. The manager caught him in the walk in cooler one day with his pants down and hisschlong in the bucket of sour cream! My friend has a copy of the termination report. As he always says...if you're gonna order tacos, ask for sour cream without the special sauce. When I was 16 years old, I worked for McDonald's for 6 months. That was the cleanest place I have ever seen. Then again that was over 20 years ago. |
You've got to be joking, right? Your excuse is "visit restaurats on their down time, dont go when it gets busy"?!? *I* should have to alter *MY* schedule in order to get food that's not fucked up because its "hard to stay civilized" when you're busy? If kitchen work sucks so bad, and doesn't pay, GET ANOTHER FUCKING JOB instead of endangering a customer's health by pulling bullshit like that. Try to get one that you're capable of doing. WTF? DPeacher said it best, I think. |
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For 2 years in high school, I worked at the local hole-in-the wall fried chicken dump. The owner was nuts and alcoholic. He was a prick to work for 90% of the time and his family actually had him declared legally insane (which is why he fled his home state and came here). He thought that the big chicken chains had spies trying to steal his recipe. The building was a dump. The conditions were poor. The equipment was marginal. But you could bet you'd always get good food. He was a stickler for quality and cleanliness. We bleached the living shit out of everything in sight several times a day. The oil in the fryers was always clean and frequently changed. Oil was thoroughly filtered at the end of the day and dumped frequently. The dishwater was scalding hot. If something hit the floor, it went into the trash. If something didn't look right, it was dumped. If a customer had a complaint, the situation was made right. He instilled that culture in the employees. Even when he wasn't around, if something wasn't right, we made it right. Man I miss that place. Best chicken on the planet. Maybe he was right about the spies. 
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Man I wish I could, I have my CCNA and my A+ certifications but I dont think you know what Alliance Ohio is like. There are no jobs here and thats the closest city to me. I dont move becuase I love the area I live in. Berlin Lake with tons of woods. I can shoot my guns all day without the cops coming. |
Join the military, lots of woods ,shoot guns all day, and you will get some fuckin pride 
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Yes, but will he have time to smoke a cigarette? |
+1 If I owned a restaurant and I saw you doing that shit, I would fire your sorry ass. I don't mind being goofed with, and joking around, but when you fuck with my food, or it is made in a disgusting manner, I am not a happy camper. |
hahahahahaha
Yeah, uhh, what is the name of the company you work at??? I may be swinging through that fine state shortly. |
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AR82, You have got to be shittin' all of us, right? Your'e gettin' slammed left and right for this asinine thread, yet you remain calm and don't appear to be taking any offense to everyones well deserved bitch fest. dude, if you're actually telling the truth, you absolutely have got to know that what you are doing is absofuckinglutely wrong. Period. Get your ass another job, or quiit yankin' our chains. Shit. I'm too damned lazy to prepare my lunch everyday, and I usually go out to lunch at least 3 or 4 days a week. If I even thought someone messed with my food like that, they'd have a size 16 shoved up their ass in a quick hurry. |
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Ok, I got a couple. My buddy used to work in a strip hotel that got torn down. Well, the fanciest steak house in the whole place had quite a nasty cook that worked there supposedly. If any of the servers told the cook the customer was acting like an ass the cook would take the raw steak and wipe his asshole with it. Then cook it and serve it up. I have another friend that used to be the manager of a local Red Lobster. Well, he had a really attractive young lady that worked there who happened to ride a bicycle to work. She kept the bicycle in the stock room or something like that. One day he walked into the stock room to get something and one of the bus boys was bent down, sniffing the seat of that bike and jacking off all at once. Needless to say he got shitcanned!!!!!!! |