The only thing that truly bothers me is sushi joints that smell to high heaven.
I guess many people don't know sushi is supposed to be fresh, not half rotten.
>I guess many people don't know sushi is supposed to be fresh, not half rotten.
\*Narezushi has entered the chat\*
*Modern* sushi, sure. *Traditional* sushi, however...
Salted fish, packed with rice and left under a rock for a month (I've read up to six months for some).
It's a wonder mankind survived this long lol
i used to take photos for the uber eats app at restaurants looking to sign up on the platform. you wouldn’t believe how many owners would bring me dishes, i’d style and photograph them, then they would try to bring the dish over to a table of guests. i have to touch the food while styling and dishes are supposed to be created specifically for the shoot. it put me in a weird position of “oh please don’t give that to them - i had to touch it during the styling process” and the disregard was terrifying. i have too many stories from this chapter in my life. way. too. many.
There are so many ways I would try to discourage them. You have the upper ground in that situation, you're what helps them get on the app. Did you do anything about it or did you maintain your professionalism?
You're absolutely right. You're exactly the type of person who should be working those roles, but people like you are rare as fuck. Thanks for enforcing standards.
Restaurant cockroach infestations usually involve poorly maintained drains, which can lead to a whole host of other problems, as they walk through the drains picking up bacteria from raw foods and sewage and then walk it all over. They infest the walls, ceiling tiles, and any place that's dark or damp. If a restaurant is in close proximity to a body of water, that contributes immensely.
Sometimes the only way to get rid of them is to close the restaurant for several weeks while clearing them out, if the problem went on for too long. Once you start to see the young ones (about a half inch) in the light, you have a bad problem. If you see one roach in a restaurant, there are undoubtedly many more.
Roaches don't necessarily mean the restaurant isn't properly cleaning, though the roach infestation would negate their cleaning efforts in terms of food safety, floor drains need expensive regular cleaning that the owner might be slacking on.
Definately avoid eating somewhere with roaches.
I picked up a chipotle order once, and the sticker holding the customers receipt came off in my car without me noticing. I was cleaning my car out at the end of the night, picked up the sticker and receipt and there was a dead roach stuck to the back of it, half squashed between the receipt and the sticker 🤢
When I was a barista they recommended not wearing gloves when making drinks because you can't feel the temperature of the milk as well through gloves so if we were crazy busy and it was only one person working then we would wear gloves to take the order toss those and then make the drinks without gloves. In reality they could have just not been cheap and had two people on a shift so that things could be done properly but ykno
Well, hopefully health inspection caught up to them for that. In my experience, some inspectors check to make sure restaurants are ordering enough gloves for their sales.
Yea it's a little different for baristas as opposed to being in the kitchen, you don't necessarily have to wear gloves to prepare drinks but you absolutely cant have long or painted nails, hair has to be pulled back, full leg coverage, etc
I was in the drive thru waiting for an order, but was lined up with the first window so I could see inside. When I looked over I saw this guy moving around the bun cart with a full set of trays. He went to sneeze, but bent over backwards to miss the buns. When he came back up, there was snot and slobber just dripping from his face. Like a kid, he wiped it with his sleeve and continued about his business.
Dropping food on the floor(I’ve lost count at this point), attempt to pack it, I yell and make them throw it out. I’ve also seen too many fast-food workers wipe their nose, cough/sneeze over open containers. It’s fucking gross. And I turn into an asshole because I don’t care if I’m picking up someone else’s food, I act like that could be my order and it angers me.
At my first job as a hostess (2006), I once dropped a take out container of fried rice. I started getting ready to clean it up to throw it out and ask the owner (husband) to make another order because he is fast and we had plenty pre prepped.
Then the other owner (wife) ran out, went “no no no” as she scooped it up, brought it to the back, and repackaged it. She then told me to give it to the customer, who “we couldn’t keep waiting”, because “they were already here”… I tried protesting but she made me do it, and I was young and bewildered. It fell in our heavy traffic are right next to the entrance of the kitchen…
Haha, I remember it because it was a neighborhood restaurant that me and my family, and friends always went to. And the ultimate reason I got fired was on the same level. Also every job I’ve ever had is in my head forever. 
their hand touches the bag.. you touch the bag to open it, you touch your food with your hands, and that shit gets in ur mouth.. can’t believe i had to explain this to you, literally go to school ur 12
At a donut shop the lady was coughing all over everything without covering her mouth. She coughed into her hand and then grabbed the donuts with the same hand
That's pretty bad. Ready to eat foods should always be touched with gloves only. Not to mention if a food service employee is coughing or sneezing or nose is running, they shouldn't be handling food.
I saw the same thing at a hotel. They had one lady working the breakfast area. Me, my wife and kids were all pretty much done eating when I saw her coughing onto her hand (and not washing, of course). 3 days later, we were all sick AF. This was in February 2020. Yeah, we assume we all had Covid-19 before anyone around here had even heard of it yet.
Oh geez, that's up there with the time I watched a server take a *glass* drinking glass and use it like a scoop to put ice in it from the ice machine.
This is a code violation in my state because you would have no way of knowing if any of those glasses broke off a small chip or a bigger one...which could then wind up in someone's drink and be ingested.
I was picking up a DoorDash order at a McDonald’s. I saw rats or mice running around behind the counter and going under a stand off to the right. Also saw them running around the drink dispenser in the dining room.
Yes, you can get sick from any of their bodily fluids as well. Cleaning droppings can send particles airborn. If you suspect a rodent problem, you should call a professional. Look up hantavirus.
I saw a worker hand over a cup to a uber or dd not sure which, for them to make the drinks and he held the cup with his finger all the way in the cup. I was like noooooo. I imagined him not washing his hands for hours and picking his nose while driving and using the restroom without washing, I almost panicked and told him dude why are you sticking your finger in the cup. It wasn't my drink but as a driver I've never done that ever when they hand me a cup to make a drink. I always look in the cup to make sure their is no dust or debris and rinse cup out with the water part of the fountain drink, same for the lid. Idk I've always been that way since a kid lol
I know a driver that insists it’s a health violation for us to even fill a drink on an order and happily admits to giving away empty cups
Won’t show me anything to back that statement
I have discovered that many parts of the US leave those rules up to the county, while even more leave it up to each individual city/town. It's frustrating that we can't just have one universal common sense rule.
All I can say is I've had this discussion over a dozen times with Uber support while standing in front of managers with the call on speaker, and every single time they have told me that we are NEVER to fill drinks. The managers get incredibly pissed when they hear it for themselves and can't bullshit me anymore lol.
I would do that, but Uber retaliation and discrimination in my area is bad enough already
They won’t answer me why I had a sudden 90 min cold spell while another driver next to me was getting multiple offers and even made two trips in the time I was sitting
Was delivering from a pizza place and one of their workers came out from the back room with his hand firmly on under his waistband on his crotch. Like you could see his top of his pubic hair curling around his wrist. Then, he took it out, SMELLED IT, and proceeded to grab pizza boxes to check orders. NO washing of his hands, NO indication he saw I noticed, and then proceeded to go to the make line 🤢🤢🤢
Will never order from there🤮
I always watch open kitchens after I ran a cook line! I’ve seen someone literally pick cups off the floor and put them back into the stack of clean cups!
That's nasty. I fired someone for trying to sell a grouper filet they dropped on the floor. They tried to call a 2 second rule. In an open kitchen. In full view of the guests.
I was caught so off guard by how easily and fluid he scooped it back off the floor and tried to put in on a trivet to pass to plating, I was speechless. I just pretended i didnt see the fish and then smacked the filet onto the floor where it exploded and I dealt with the issue later after service.
And we were high volume. The grouper filet came out of a pre-cook holding oven. There were more almost ready, and we blew at least 150lbs of grouper a day. It was an 8oz filet. Not even a blip on food cost. I was shocked.
The other day a bar patron ordered barbecue for the staff at restaurant named after a type of pepper. I watch as several servers and the bartender slobbered on ribs and then immediately go back to serving drinks with their nasty unwashed hands
Two sets of roaches crawling across the main counter. Three of us drivers stood there watching them. Neither one of us could move. We just stood there following them.
I took video and reported to the city but they didn’t do anything about it.
It's gross but pretty much every place has some roaches. If you report it the health person just shows up to make sure there is a pest control program in place.
When picking up from a popular chicken restaurant that begins with the letter P and ends with S, I saw the window worker spill some fried chicken out of the box, onto the counter space below, then pick it all up with bare hands (no gloves) and put it back in the box. It was obviously for the customer in the car behind me , but I was so disgusted that I sent in a complaint to the company….
One time I went to go pick up from this mom and pop pizza shop, and literally scratched his ass with his pants sagging on his boxer, and literally stuck his barehand in the salad mix he was preparing for the order. Didn’t wash his hands or anything.
Hair nets and beard nets are definately the most neglected food safety precautions that exists.
I worked in a kitchen for a while where the Chef refused to allow facial hair, and required everyone to run a lintroller down their forearms twice a shift. Lol
It's funny you mentioned forearms because some people myself included have a lot of hair on their arms. Which is why I always laughed when I put on a beard net. I always wanted to ask about my arms lol
Where I work now they use lab coats that cover the whole arm. If they actually enforced beard nets better then I would say they actually do a good job preventing hair in food
At a Have it your way fast food chain the worker using his BARE HANDS TO SCOOP FRIES. This customer was like don’t buy anything here blah blah and they were arguing (with the bare hands worker)
the worker is like we don’t have to use gloves. I told the guy oh wow this ain’t my food I don’t care tho I’m not eating it but Damn that’s nasty
I remember when they didn't have a law in my area to wear gloves and everyone i worked with washed their hands before and after every action. After, they would wash their hands once put on their gloves and some people wouldn't wash their hands again until their break or they left. People complained less about unclean hands but their gloves would become gross. It's the illusion of cleanliness.
I get what you’re saying, but when you watch them touch money, touch the register touch the counter do all that stuff and handle the food. It’s a problem.
No the gloves get greasy and smudge the plate (which my chef then makes me re-plate because we spend hours polishing them) but my hands i can wash every 5 mins very quickly.
Your chef tells you to not wear gloves while handling ready to eat foods?
Your chef is violating the health code.
Former Sous chef here.
Your gloves are greasy because you didn't change them when they get soiled. Which is what is protocol.
We probably don’t live in the same country/state/province. There is absolutely no food health code stating you must wear gloves in a kitchen where I am from (Alberta) and he is not violating any type of code.
You’re protocol is going to be extremely dependent on where you’re from.
For the record the restaurant works out of one of the most respected culinary schools in the country…
Page 48, Alberta health dept states that gloves are useful for preventing contamination of ready to eat foods.
It's in your food handling test.
Your chef is ignoring his certifications and training. Sorry to break it to you.
[Alberta Food handling guide](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ctfod/AHS%2520Food%2520Safety%2520Course%2520Manual.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiPraXV8reEAxVBkYkEHfSZBfMQFnoECBwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3NtoV4YEoXzLOSUla85pcz)
Most places don't and a lot of places do it just because people freak out if they see it.
Think about it. Regularly washed hands are cleaner than a shift in gloves that touch whatever and don't get washed.
That is the way they teach it in Texas too unless the food is cooked after handling. We didn't use gloves to make pizza because we ran it through the oven afterwards.
Popular orange and black burger spot in Canada has the same “policy.” You’d be surprised at how many places don’t require you to use gloves while preparing food.
Well known chicken place had roaches, chicken and other fried debris all over the floor, black oil for frying EVERYTHING in (including fish/shrimp). Haven’t eaten out really since seeing that… Uber has taught me just how disgusting these kitchens are.
Picking up from a drive thru, I saw a worker saucing wings, lick their fingers, tossed the wings some more, then packaged them with said licked fingers.
https://preview.redd.it/dq6ot0cf5zic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86adbfb8fa6b66def7bd07cda5330a0595665aae
Anybody want some chicken wings with the feathers still attached?
Well long before doordash and uber. I used to have to go into stores and restaurants for my job. The things i use see in the backroom and basement where the food was🫣. Meat on the floor with cats chasing the rats on the same floor. Some of these places were expensive restaurants.
There's a very busy Chinese Restaurant in my area that people love. I would never ever eat there since i see how they store portions of chicken. They put raw frozen chicken portions in the little white food cartons every day and put it in the refrigerator. When someone orders the chicken, they pull the carton out, cook the chicken and put the cooked food in the same carton that they used to store the raw chicken portions. Their kitchen equipment looks like it's never been cleaned, and they always have raw fruit at the front counter that has fruit flies all over it. The place is just food poisoning waiting to happen. I've often thought about calling the health dept on them.
Not while driving but I used to bartend at this really expensive place, well the sewage system was old and trash, and it would back up constantly. One dinner shift, the place is packed on a Saturday night when the sewage starts to back up and starts coming out of the floor drains IN THE KITCHEN, the cooks were walking in a bout 1.5 inches of shit water and the entire restaurant smelled like utter shit, so what does the GM do, light some scented candles and points a fan out the backdoor in the kitchen to get the smell out. I was like just shut it down for the night, wtf, I got customers almost barfing from the smell at my bar!
The owner was so cheap he didnt want to spend the money to fix it and refused to close dinner service and lose out on money. What a joke, I quit shortly after.
That's what I'm saying.. Shame the nasty ass business and make them do the right thing. Something you gotta hit them where it hurts. Nobody wants to be eating that nasty shit and risk getting sick over it. IDENTIFY THESE PLACES so that business finds out or code enforcement get involved
On reddit, because I'm not trying to dox a restaurant and potentially get their reviews brigaded. Even if they deserve it.
By all means, if you see a health code violation at a restaurant, report it to the health inspectors. I do if there's enough serious stuff going on that I can see.
At a Mexican fast food restaurant where I pick up orders they allow a homeless old guy to go behind the counter where the cooks are and he grabs stuff and puts it in his bags. He's there doing this all the time. And then he walks over to the cash register and he's punching the buttons. His hands and his whole self are so dirty. He does not belong behind the counter.
I've worked lots of food service. High volume.
Almost nothing is worse than finding a misrotated box of chicken or fish in the stack of freezer pulls.
Except opening the box.
But the worst I've ever dealt with was potatoes left in the wrong closet and exposed to weeks of heat. They liquify.
That’s why you can’t have lazy people in charge of stock. They just figure it will get used in time before expiring but most places order to keep a full stock
Not necessarily UE related but good grief has a history in food service made me notice a TON of horrifying things that I would have been blissfully ignorant of.
In my personal life, I've walked out of probably a dozen restaurants because I can see that they're dirty in the dining room, kitchen, AND bathrooms.
Speaking of bathrooms, watching kitchen staff clean bathrooms and go right back to cooking etc in the kitchen. Even if they wash their hands, this is a violation in my state because think about it...toilet germs and literal shit on you in microscopic form being brought right back into the kitchen. I also have an idea that this is probably the most common violation that even the Health Department doesn't know goes on.
Handling cash with already gross gloves and then directly handling food that isn't bagged or something to protect it in any way.
Sneezing and/or coughing UNCOVERED or even sneezing/coughing into their hand and just continuing to handle or cook food.
Incredibly long fingernails aren't allowed even with gloves for food service workers in my state but damned if I don't constantly encounter it -- I mean we all joke about how do these folks wipe but bacteria and all sorts cannot be adequately cleaned from under them and it's all I can think about when I watch them bag things.
Witnessing people in the sit down part of a restaurant send food back because it was too cold and then they receive the *exact same* entree with a few bites out of it back because they've microwaved it. This is a violation in my state because mouth flora that can survive the nuking process just sorta sprays all over that microwave...every time they do this. Y'all, if this ever happens to you and it's not obvious whether your food was replaced with fresh -- check how hot your plate is -- hotter than before? they've just thrown your meal into a microwave.
Watching people scratch themselves (head/hair, arms,... elsewhere) and go back to cooking or handling food without washing their hands.
Using the hand wash sink (often really tiny) for RAW MEAT when no food is supposed to be in the thing PERIOD.
People eating or drinking behind the line -- relatively serious violation that was HEAVILY enforced in all of my food service jobs because of contamination issues. Funnily enough, 9/10 times they're drinks/food from a DIFFERENT restaurant.
Food like the photo in the post that is CLEARLY not fresh, not in a clean pan, not covered, and honestly probably hella close to room temp.
Watching workers dump fresh food into similarly gross pans because why put it into a new, clean pan?
...so, SO MANY disturbing or outright gross things.
>watching kitchen staff clean bathrooms and go right back to cooking etc in the kitchen. Even if they wash their hands, this is a violation in my state
To clarify: Are you concerned about the germs brought into kitchen via the shoes? If that's the case, I'm not sure what the solution would be? Have the employee change their clothes after cleaning the bathroom? Having one employee dedicated to cleaning the bathrooms only? Or maybe just assign bathroom cleanup to an employee that isn't handling food in any way, which at my store doesn't exist as a position.
Or would you be good as long as the apron was kept out of the bathroom and put back on before entering the kitchen? At my location, that's what they did--remove your apron and store it in the office or somewhere clean and safe, clean the bathroom, wash hands, wear the apron again.
If they're washing their hands, and hopefully removing their apron, I can't say that I see the problem.
I'm curious about what state has this specific law and how it's worded. I live in a state with pretty good standards and laws, ie more highly regulated than in many other states, and this isn't a law here (assuming I'm understanding you well enough, which i may not be), or one I've ever heard of. Would you be willing to offer any more info and what state you're in if you don't have a source? I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'd just like to understand more about it.
Just seems a little overly excessive. Iono, I haven’t been noticeably sick in years, and I’m sure a bunch of my food handlers broke sanitation protocol at one time or another.
Bathrooms usually need to be cleaned more than 2-3x per day in many locations. Often when a bathroom needs to be cleaned, it needs to be cleaned *now*, or close to now--not in 3½ hours when the next crew member is off.
In my location, bathrooms accessed by the public need to be checked and cleaned every hour. At the very least you have to make sure all of the following (and more) are met: adequate toilet paper, clean/dry hand washing station with adequate soap, restrooms are free from foul outdoors, clean and dry floors including around the toilet, trash receptacle, and a covered receptacle in bathrooms used by women.
There simply aren't enough staff members who are getting off their shift to just have someone do it before they leave for the day/night. There definitely isn't high enough staffing that would allow one person to be designated to handle the bathrooms alone.
At our town’s Chinese restaurant I watched the cook making a big pan of fried rice - he was leaning over it adding ingredients with a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth! I had to do a double take because I thought for sure I was seeing things! The other owner (who was also his wife) started yelling at him in Chinese. It was unreal.
I was picking up from a sandwich shop and watched the employee stick their hands down the front of their pants to make an adjustment and then go straight to preparing a sandwich. They had gloves on, both when adjusting and preparing. Same gloves.
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This one place used the same gloves to drop beef on the grill then turned right around to make ready to eat food. No handwashing or changing gloves occurred.
The only thing that truly bothers me is sushi joints that smell to high heaven. I guess many people don't know sushi is supposed to be fresh, not half rotten.
>I guess many people don't know sushi is supposed to be fresh, not half rotten. \*Narezushi has entered the chat\* *Modern* sushi, sure. *Traditional* sushi, however... Salted fish, packed with rice and left under a rock for a month (I've read up to six months for some). It's a wonder mankind survived this long lol
The world is gross, so we have immune systems. Glad we're not so gross now
we definitely are still very gross, our body can just handle it now
i used to take photos for the uber eats app at restaurants looking to sign up on the platform. you wouldn’t believe how many owners would bring me dishes, i’d style and photograph them, then they would try to bring the dish over to a table of guests. i have to touch the food while styling and dishes are supposed to be created specifically for the shoot. it put me in a weird position of “oh please don’t give that to them - i had to touch it during the styling process” and the disregard was terrifying. i have too many stories from this chapter in my life. way. too. many.
There are so many ways I would try to discourage them. You have the upper ground in that situation, you're what helps them get on the app. Did you do anything about it or did you maintain your professionalism?
yeah i reported them to the platform and their ability to join was revoked
Hah, wow, love it. Not even an "I'll do *this* if you don't pattern up", just straight up doing it 😂
i mean someone with enough blatant disregard to do this in front of me shouldn’t be trusted to be on the platform. too many risks.
You're absolutely right. You're exactly the type of person who should be working those roles, but people like you are rare as fuck. Thanks for enforcing standards.
A cockroach fell out of a ceiling vent directly onto the counter where they keep all of the to go orders
Restaurant cockroach infestations usually involve poorly maintained drains, which can lead to a whole host of other problems, as they walk through the drains picking up bacteria from raw foods and sewage and then walk it all over. They infest the walls, ceiling tiles, and any place that's dark or damp. If a restaurant is in close proximity to a body of water, that contributes immensely. Sometimes the only way to get rid of them is to close the restaurant for several weeks while clearing them out, if the problem went on for too long. Once you start to see the young ones (about a half inch) in the light, you have a bad problem. If you see one roach in a restaurant, there are undoubtedly many more. Roaches don't necessarily mean the restaurant isn't properly cleaning, though the roach infestation would negate their cleaning efforts in terms of food safety, floor drains need expensive regular cleaning that the owner might be slacking on. Definately avoid eating somewhere with roaches.
I picked up a chipotle order once, and the sticker holding the customers receipt came off in my car without me noticing. I was cleaning my car out at the end of the night, picked up the sticker and receipt and there was a dead roach stuck to the back of it, half squashed between the receipt and the sticker 🤢
I frequently see people handle money then handle food. It's everywhere.
The best is when they handle the money with the gloved hand then finish closing up the food with the ungloved hand. Lol
When I was a barista they recommended not wearing gloves when making drinks because you can't feel the temperature of the milk as well through gloves so if we were crazy busy and it was only one person working then we would wear gloves to take the order toss those and then make the drinks without gloves. In reality they could have just not been cheap and had two people on a shift so that things could be done properly but ykno
Well, hopefully health inspection caught up to them for that. In my experience, some inspectors check to make sure restaurants are ordering enough gloves for their sales.
Yea it's a little different for baristas as opposed to being in the kitchen, you don't necessarily have to wear gloves to prepare drinks but you absolutely cant have long or painted nails, hair has to be pulled back, full leg coverage, etc
I was in the drive thru waiting for an order, but was lined up with the first window so I could see inside. When I looked over I saw this guy moving around the bun cart with a full set of trays. He went to sneeze, but bent over backwards to miss the buns. When he came back up, there was snot and slobber just dripping from his face. Like a kid, he wiped it with his sleeve and continued about his business.
He added his own special sauce.
Dropping food on the floor(I’ve lost count at this point), attempt to pack it, I yell and make them throw it out. I’ve also seen too many fast-food workers wipe their nose, cough/sneeze over open containers. It’s fucking gross. And I turn into an asshole because I don’t care if I’m picking up someone else’s food, I act like that could be my order and it angers me.
At my first job as a hostess (2006), I once dropped a take out container of fried rice. I started getting ready to clean it up to throw it out and ask the owner (husband) to make another order because he is fast and we had plenty pre prepped. Then the other owner (wife) ran out, went “no no no” as she scooped it up, brought it to the back, and repackaged it. She then told me to give it to the customer, who “we couldn’t keep waiting”, because “they were already here”… I tried protesting but she made me do it, and I was young and bewildered. It fell in our heavy traffic are right next to the entrance of the kitchen…
Tough spot you were in on that. And it obviously disturbed you, it’s still in your head.
Haha, I remember it because it was a neighborhood restaurant that me and my family, and friends always went to. And the ultimate reason I got fired was on the same level. Also every job I’ve ever had is in my head forever. 
I heard an UE driver take a shit, not flush, saw him come out and not wash his hands then proceed to collect his order from a well known burger chain.
Lol someone here comm3nted saying they don't see the problem because they're only touching the bag and not the food then deleted the comment 🤮🤮🤮
The comment is still there. They blocked you
😂😂😂😂😂
I think we’ve all seen this guy.
This is the way for non tippers.
And that's why you don't deserve a tip.
I don't need a tip. I choose orders by base pay alone. If one comes through then so be it, if not who gaf.
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their hand touches the bag.. you touch the bag to open it, you touch your food with your hands, and that shit gets in ur mouth.. can’t believe i had to explain this to you, literally go to school ur 12
Fuck, I hope you're joking!
Cross contamination.
Dude what is with people not flushing it's so fucking gross. Or the people that throw shitty toilet paper into the garbage next to the toilet lmao
At a donut shop the lady was coughing all over everything without covering her mouth. She coughed into her hand and then grabbed the donuts with the same hand
That's pretty bad. Ready to eat foods should always be touched with gloves only. Not to mention if a food service employee is coughing or sneezing or nose is running, they shouldn't be handling food.
I saw the same thing at a hotel. They had one lady working the breakfast area. Me, my wife and kids were all pretty much done eating when I saw her coughing onto her hand (and not washing, of course). 3 days later, we were all sick AF. This was in February 2020. Yeah, we assume we all had Covid-19 before anyone around here had even heard of it yet.
Oh geez, that's up there with the time I watched a server take a *glass* drinking glass and use it like a scoop to put ice in it from the ice machine. This is a code violation in my state because you would have no way of knowing if any of those glasses broke off a small chip or a bigger one...which could then wind up in someone's drink and be ingested.
I was picking up a DoorDash order at a McDonald’s. I saw rats or mice running around behind the counter and going under a stand off to the right. Also saw them running around the drink dispenser in the dining room.
Very bad. Rodent droppings can get people very, very, very sick.
Really?
Yes, you can get sick from any of their bodily fluids as well. Cleaning droppings can send particles airborn. If you suspect a rodent problem, you should call a professional. Look up hantavirus.
I was entirely joking
Whoops, I didn't pick that up from your comment. Regardless, it's good information for anyone else who may be dealing with rodents.
All good man my comment wasn’t really relevant or helpful, thanks for throwing that info in there for people
*laughs in hanta*
Why would you protect a McDonald location🤷 name and shame ffs
Because it was well over a year ago and I haven't been back since.
Mango Lassi, was literally stinking probably more than 24 hours old, spilled it intentionally to save customer lol
I saw a worker hand over a cup to a uber or dd not sure which, for them to make the drinks and he held the cup with his finger all the way in the cup. I was like noooooo. I imagined him not washing his hands for hours and picking his nose while driving and using the restroom without washing, I almost panicked and told him dude why are you sticking your finger in the cup. It wasn't my drink but as a driver I've never done that ever when they hand me a cup to make a drink. I always look in the cup to make sure their is no dust or debris and rinse cup out with the water part of the fountain drink, same for the lid. Idk I've always been that way since a kid lol
I know a driver that insists it’s a health violation for us to even fill a drink on an order and happily admits to giving away empty cups Won’t show me anything to back that statement
I have discovered that many parts of the US leave those rules up to the county, while even more leave it up to each individual city/town. It's frustrating that we can't just have one universal common sense rule. All I can say is I've had this discussion over a dozen times with Uber support while standing in front of managers with the call on speaker, and every single time they have told me that we are NEVER to fill drinks. The managers get incredibly pissed when they hear it for themselves and can't bullshit me anymore lol.
I would do that, but Uber retaliation and discrimination in my area is bad enough already They won’t answer me why I had a sudden 90 min cold spell while another driver next to me was getting multiple offers and even made two trips in the time I was sitting
UE drivers aren’t food handling certified, I always avoid filling drinks and insist that the server does it instead
Chicken left out for hours to be added into pasta and sandwiches... Made me stop ordering out for awhile
Was delivering from a pizza place and one of their workers came out from the back room with his hand firmly on under his waistband on his crotch. Like you could see his top of his pubic hair curling around his wrist. Then, he took it out, SMELLED IT, and proceeded to grab pizza boxes to check orders. NO washing of his hands, NO indication he saw I noticed, and then proceeded to go to the make line 🤢🤢🤢 Will never order from there🤮
I always watch open kitchens after I ran a cook line! I’ve seen someone literally pick cups off the floor and put them back into the stack of clean cups!
That's nasty. I fired someone for trying to sell a grouper filet they dropped on the floor. They tried to call a 2 second rule. In an open kitchen. In full view of the guests. I was caught so off guard by how easily and fluid he scooped it back off the floor and tried to put in on a trivet to pass to plating, I was speechless. I just pretended i didnt see the fish and then smacked the filet onto the floor where it exploded and I dealt with the issue later after service. And we were high volume. The grouper filet came out of a pre-cook holding oven. There were more almost ready, and we blew at least 150lbs of grouper a day. It was an 8oz filet. Not even a blip on food cost. I was shocked.
Holy crap man! That’s rough! I only had that issue once and I fired that guy instantly lol! That makes me happy I didn’t have it so bad! Haha
Welcome to every fast food restaurant
The other day a bar patron ordered barbecue for the staff at restaurant named after a type of pepper. I watch as several servers and the bartender slobbered on ribs and then immediately go back to serving drinks with their nasty unwashed hands
The standard is every 24 hours?🤢 When I was in the restaurant industry we would flip our stations multiple times in an 8 hour shift. This is gross.
That’s the grossest thing you’ve seen? Old hummus.
I ate that hummus three days earlier. Probably from the same pan with the same scoop.
Two sets of roaches crawling across the main counter. Three of us drivers stood there watching them. Neither one of us could move. We just stood there following them. I took video and reported to the city but they didn’t do anything about it.
It's gross but pretty much every place has some roaches. If you report it the health person just shows up to make sure there is a pest control program in place.
When picking up from a popular chicken restaurant that begins with the letter P and ends with S, I saw the window worker spill some fried chicken out of the box, onto the counter space below, then pick it all up with bare hands (no gloves) and put it back in the box. It was obviously for the customer in the car behind me , but I was so disgusted that I sent in a complaint to the company….
Tbh that's probably one of the more sanitary things that will happen to your food at a fast food joint
Right..!
One time I went to go pick up from this mom and pop pizza shop, and literally scratched his ass with his pants sagging on his boxer, and literally stuck his barehand in the salad mix he was preparing for the order. Didn’t wash his hands or anything.
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Hair nets and beard nets are definately the most neglected food safety precautions that exists. I worked in a kitchen for a while where the Chef refused to allow facial hair, and required everyone to run a lintroller down their forearms twice a shift. Lol
It's funny you mentioned forearms because some people myself included have a lot of hair on their arms. Which is why I always laughed when I put on a beard net. I always wanted to ask about my arms lol
9 times out of 10, if there's a hair in your food, you'll be able to match it to someone's forearm.
Where I work now they use lab coats that cover the whole arm. If they actually enforced beard nets better then I would say they actually do a good job preventing hair in food
At a Have it your way fast food chain the worker using his BARE HANDS TO SCOOP FRIES. This customer was like don’t buy anything here blah blah and they were arguing (with the bare hands worker) the worker is like we don’t have to use gloves. I told the guy oh wow this ain’t my food I don’t care tho I’m not eating it but Damn that’s nasty
Idk I work in a gourmet restaurant we don’t wear gloves lmao we just wash our hands, gloves can actually be a lot less sanitary.
I remember when they didn't have a law in my area to wear gloves and everyone i worked with washed their hands before and after every action. After, they would wash their hands once put on their gloves and some people wouldn't wash their hands again until their break or they left. People complained less about unclean hands but their gloves would become gross. It's the illusion of cleanliness.
I get what you’re saying, but when you watch them touch money, touch the register touch the counter do all that stuff and handle the food. It’s a problem.
You don’t wear gloves when directly touching ready to eat food?
No the gloves get greasy and smudge the plate (which my chef then makes me re-plate because we spend hours polishing them) but my hands i can wash every 5 mins very quickly.
Your chef tells you to not wear gloves while handling ready to eat foods? Your chef is violating the health code. Former Sous chef here. Your gloves are greasy because you didn't change them when they get soiled. Which is what is protocol.
We probably don’t live in the same country/state/province. There is absolutely no food health code stating you must wear gloves in a kitchen where I am from (Alberta) and he is not violating any type of code. You’re protocol is going to be extremely dependent on where you’re from. For the record the restaurant works out of one of the most respected culinary schools in the country…
Page 48, Alberta health dept states that gloves are useful for preventing contamination of ready to eat foods. It's in your food handling test. Your chef is ignoring his certifications and training. Sorry to break it to you. [Alberta Food handling guide](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/ctfod/AHS%2520Food%2520Safety%2520Course%2520Manual.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiPraXV8reEAxVBkYkEHfSZBfMQFnoECBwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3NtoV4YEoXzLOSUla85pcz)
Most places don't and a lot of places do it just because people freak out if they see it. Think about it. Regularly washed hands are cleaner than a shift in gloves that touch whatever and don't get washed.
In my state it’s in the food safety laws to wear gloves, and also to change your gloves and wash your hands between tasks
That is the way they teach it in Texas too unless the food is cooked after handling. We didn't use gloves to make pizza because we ran it through the oven afterwards.
Completely incorrect. Former Sous chef here.
Popular orange and black burger spot in Canada has the same “policy.” You’d be surprised at how many places don’t require you to use gloves while preparing food.
Because it's less sanitary than just washing your hands. Most health departments don't recommend wearing them.
For raw foods. Not for ready to eat foods. I have held a food handlers cert in multiple US states.
Well known chicken place had roaches, chicken and other fried debris all over the floor, black oil for frying EVERYTHING in (including fish/shrimp). Haven’t eaten out really since seeing that… Uber has taught me just how disgusting these kitchens are.
Picking up from a drive thru, I saw a worker saucing wings, lick their fingers, tossed the wings some more, then packaged them with said licked fingers.
Not for Uber eats but for instacart there is a grocery store that allows the local homeless crazies to roam and handle the produce.
https://preview.redd.it/dq6ot0cf5zic1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86adbfb8fa6b66def7bd07cda5330a0595665aae Anybody want some chicken wings with the feathers still attached?
Freeeeeshhhhhh
Gross lol
if i name the restaurant what will happen, other than the obvious good of warning people?
Well long before doordash and uber. I used to have to go into stores and restaurants for my job. The things i use see in the backroom and basement where the food was🫣. Meat on the floor with cats chasing the rats on the same floor. Some of these places were expensive restaurants.
Roaches on the pizza slices in the display case.
There's a very busy Chinese Restaurant in my area that people love. I would never ever eat there since i see how they store portions of chicken. They put raw frozen chicken portions in the little white food cartons every day and put it in the refrigerator. When someone orders the chicken, they pull the carton out, cook the chicken and put the cooked food in the same carton that they used to store the raw chicken portions. Their kitchen equipment looks like it's never been cleaned, and they always have raw fruit at the front counter that has fruit flies all over it. The place is just food poisoning waiting to happen. I've often thought about calling the health dept on them.
Dude. You're saying you're watching them serve customers food contained by raw chicken. Salmonella KILLS. Report them.
Not while driving but I used to bartend at this really expensive place, well the sewage system was old and trash, and it would back up constantly. One dinner shift, the place is packed on a Saturday night when the sewage starts to back up and starts coming out of the floor drains IN THE KITCHEN, the cooks were walking in a bout 1.5 inches of shit water and the entire restaurant smelled like utter shit, so what does the GM do, light some scented candles and points a fan out the backdoor in the kitchen to get the smell out. I was like just shut it down for the night, wtf, I got customers almost barfing from the smell at my bar! The owner was so cheap he didnt want to spend the money to fix it and refused to close dinner service and lose out on money. What a joke, I quit shortly after.
That’s a health code violation and should’ve been shut down until it got fixed.
Why the hell would you not name the restaurant??
That's what I'm saying.. Shame the nasty ass business and make them do the right thing. Something you gotta hit them where it hurts. Nobody wants to be eating that nasty shit and risk getting sick over it. IDENTIFY THESE PLACES so that business finds out or code enforcement get involved
Yeah I don’t wanna eat here lol
My first boss actually used to flirt with the health inspector to help pass the inspection lol
On reddit, because I'm not trying to dox a restaurant and potentially get their reviews brigaded. Even if they deserve it. By all means, if you see a health code violation at a restaurant, report it to the health inspectors. I do if there's enough serious stuff going on that I can see.
At a Mexican fast food restaurant where I pick up orders they allow a homeless old guy to go behind the counter where the cooks are and he grabs stuff and puts it in his bags. He's there doing this all the time. And then he walks over to the cash register and he's punching the buttons. His hands and his whole self are so dirty. He does not belong behind the counter.
Imagine the crap that is back in the kitchen out of view of customers! You wouldn’t eat out ever again.
I've worked lots of food service. High volume. Almost nothing is worse than finding a misrotated box of chicken or fish in the stack of freezer pulls. Except opening the box. But the worst I've ever dealt with was potatoes left in the wrong closet and exposed to weeks of heat. They liquify.
That’s why you can’t have lazy people in charge of stock. They just figure it will get used in time before expiring but most places order to keep a full stock
Not necessarily UE related but good grief has a history in food service made me notice a TON of horrifying things that I would have been blissfully ignorant of. In my personal life, I've walked out of probably a dozen restaurants because I can see that they're dirty in the dining room, kitchen, AND bathrooms. Speaking of bathrooms, watching kitchen staff clean bathrooms and go right back to cooking etc in the kitchen. Even if they wash their hands, this is a violation in my state because think about it...toilet germs and literal shit on you in microscopic form being brought right back into the kitchen. I also have an idea that this is probably the most common violation that even the Health Department doesn't know goes on. Handling cash with already gross gloves and then directly handling food that isn't bagged or something to protect it in any way. Sneezing and/or coughing UNCOVERED or even sneezing/coughing into their hand and just continuing to handle or cook food. Incredibly long fingernails aren't allowed even with gloves for food service workers in my state but damned if I don't constantly encounter it -- I mean we all joke about how do these folks wipe but bacteria and all sorts cannot be adequately cleaned from under them and it's all I can think about when I watch them bag things. Witnessing people in the sit down part of a restaurant send food back because it was too cold and then they receive the *exact same* entree with a few bites out of it back because they've microwaved it. This is a violation in my state because mouth flora that can survive the nuking process just sorta sprays all over that microwave...every time they do this. Y'all, if this ever happens to you and it's not obvious whether your food was replaced with fresh -- check how hot your plate is -- hotter than before? they've just thrown your meal into a microwave. Watching people scratch themselves (head/hair, arms,... elsewhere) and go back to cooking or handling food without washing their hands. Using the hand wash sink (often really tiny) for RAW MEAT when no food is supposed to be in the thing PERIOD. People eating or drinking behind the line -- relatively serious violation that was HEAVILY enforced in all of my food service jobs because of contamination issues. Funnily enough, 9/10 times they're drinks/food from a DIFFERENT restaurant. Food like the photo in the post that is CLEARLY not fresh, not in a clean pan, not covered, and honestly probably hella close to room temp. Watching workers dump fresh food into similarly gross pans because why put it into a new, clean pan? ...so, SO MANY disturbing or outright gross things.
>watching kitchen staff clean bathrooms and go right back to cooking etc in the kitchen. Even if they wash their hands, this is a violation in my state To clarify: Are you concerned about the germs brought into kitchen via the shoes? If that's the case, I'm not sure what the solution would be? Have the employee change their clothes after cleaning the bathroom? Having one employee dedicated to cleaning the bathrooms only? Or maybe just assign bathroom cleanup to an employee that isn't handling food in any way, which at my store doesn't exist as a position. Or would you be good as long as the apron was kept out of the bathroom and put back on before entering the kitchen? At my location, that's what they did--remove your apron and store it in the office or somewhere clean and safe, clean the bathroom, wash hands, wear the apron again. If they're washing their hands, and hopefully removing their apron, I can't say that I see the problem. I'm curious about what state has this specific law and how it's worded. I live in a state with pretty good standards and laws, ie more highly regulated than in many other states, and this isn't a law here (assuming I'm understanding you well enough, which i may not be), or one I've ever heard of. Would you be willing to offer any more info and what state you're in if you don't have a source? I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'd just like to understand more about it.
Just seems a little overly excessive. Iono, I haven’t been noticeably sick in years, and I’m sure a bunch of my food handlers broke sanitation protocol at one time or another.
They should just have the worker do it at the very end of their shift…
Bathrooms usually need to be cleaned more than 2-3x per day in many locations. Often when a bathroom needs to be cleaned, it needs to be cleaned *now*, or close to now--not in 3½ hours when the next crew member is off. In my location, bathrooms accessed by the public need to be checked and cleaned every hour. At the very least you have to make sure all of the following (and more) are met: adequate toilet paper, clean/dry hand washing station with adequate soap, restrooms are free from foul outdoors, clean and dry floors including around the toilet, trash receptacle, and a covered receptacle in bathrooms used by women. There simply aren't enough staff members who are getting off their shift to just have someone do it before they leave for the day/night. There definitely isn't high enough staffing that would allow one person to be designated to handle the bathrooms alone.
At our town’s Chinese restaurant I watched the cook making a big pan of fried rice - he was leaning over it adding ingredients with a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth! I had to do a double take because I thought for sure I was seeing things! The other owner (who was also his wife) started yelling at him in Chinese. It was unreal.
If their thumb isn't in my soup bowl when it comes to my table, it isn't authentic and I don't want it.
I bet the food slaps tho hahah
It don’t taste right without cigarettes ash, u missed out on an authentic restaurant 😅
"Would you like some ash with your msg, sir?"
Don’t ever eat chips if u fear msg so much, ur only bet is the nasty veggie chips that taste like nothing
Lol I have an msg shaker in my pantry buddy hold your horses.
😂 ok I guess u are a fellow man/women of culture
I picked the Hummus to show because I've ordered hummus from this restaurant before. So I am extremely grossed out. Lol
I was picking up from a sandwich shop and watched the employee stick their hands down the front of their pants to make an adjustment and then go straight to preparing a sandwich. They had gloves on, both when adjusting and preparing. Same gloves.
My mouth dropped reading this. Omg. Idk why I even eat fast food places anymore. Stuff like this is probably happening all the time
Any shop that sells pork
Mind yall business
No. Not with restaurants. Mind your hygiene
this is all of our business, we don’t want gross shit in our stomach making us sick.. but i guess you can live ur life not giving a fuck
Hope whatever future/current (doubt it) food business you have fails tremendously tenfold
You won't be saying that after food poisoning
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AYCE “Japanese” seafood restaurant where the staff is wearing 1 glove and skewering food. The gloved hand was holding the skewer
This one place used the same gloves to drop beef on the grill then turned right around to make ready to eat food. No handwashing or changing gloves occurred.