@@jayee42099 there’s a chance you ate nasty stuff from somewhere if you ate out. It’s sad that the system is deteriorating and restaurant owners are only interested in money and hiring cheap unprofessional labor to run their kitchens.
I worked at a place where I wondered the same thing on a daily basis (wasn't quite as bad but was pretty awful). I concluded that they were paying off the health inspectors, it had to be the only way.
@@lexuses3942 yes I do from that nasty hard overly oiled chicken they serve out they're not the best plus when they use to give out a free cookie when you order your meal they never gave me my free cookies so kfc sucks and the chicken does the most
It's good to know we CAN check out resto violations online. Our governments doing their job. Hooray for inspectors. ...as long as they treat all owners equally.
Yup. Also, a lesson for the "Libertarian" crowd... REGULATIONS ARE YOUR FRIEND. Without regulations, we would have filth and ecoli all over the place in our restaurants, hospitals, environment, etc.
@@SpukiTheLoveKitten75 I wouldn't be surprised if some Libertarians are in favor of incentives TO be sanitary. But as a minor germaphobe, I'd rather have both incentives (for extra cleanliness) and punishment (for not meeting standards).
like Rob Wolchek from Michigan,if you haven't seen him, it's worth watching him going after fraudster business operators, and even Judges that are getting paid a full time salary but only working like 20% of the time (or less) that they are paid for. He has no fear.
As former Cook who's been in the restaurant business for 7 years, it frustrates me when I have lazy coworkers who don't take cleanliness and proper food care seriously and cut corners. Left the industry and its been the best decision I've ever made.
My mom ate at a restaurant in Florida in 2011. She died from ecoli and a bacterial infection. The restaurant was shut down and on news. However, it reopened three months later after passing inspection. What was found was totally disgusting. There are so many restaurants dirty filthy roaches . Some cooks are dirty never wash hands I have not eaten out in 12 years. Today you have to even be careful with regular groceries. I get alerts on my phone daily of recalls.
I worked as a health inspector for 20+ years and the most violations a restaurant had was around 60. 110 violations is legitimately not possible, how could they let their restaurant get that bad?
Completely agree, I think someone dropped the ball and they went a while without an inspection and it piled up. But still even 110 seems like you’d have to really try to get to that point 🤣
@@bendunfee4324 That would be "everyone evacuate the nationalists are piling in". Not everything or everyone is racist else the word loses it meaning, you racist for calling someone else a racist.
Same for me. Used to worked on a chinese restaurant, but not as worse as the one on the video.... Still I quit after 2 weeks. Quarrels almost everyday, food placed on floor, cockroaches crawling everywhere and even on plates, chinese staffs randomly spitting, no chopping board color codes(cross-contamination), cooked and RTE plated with bare hands, residues everywhere, communication barriers (Chinese staffs can't speak and understand english), and etc.
GLOGANG MUSICK not that I’d condone eating at a Chinese restaurant. I stopped years ago. However, the food you got at home cake from a grocery store and Factory! It’s just as bad - I know, I’ve worked at a grocery store, ice cream cone factory and restaurant. That stuff out the box is contaminated, grocery store meat is insanitary 🤢 .... so your moms not doing you an favors 😂😂😂😂😂
The problem is these places are not only allowed to reopen, they're allowed to do so without any tighter scrutiny from the health department. Same thing with fire marshals. The fire marshal around here has issued a warning for no fire extinguishers and no exit signs for the last 5 years. No fine, just a "Hey, I'm going to retire eventually so you might want to fix this because the next guy might not let it slide". That is a direct quote.
I used to work at a restaurant as a dishwasher, and looking back I'm actually super thankful the chefs were so uptight about cleaning the place at the end of every night. There are so many restaurants people go to that they wouldn't if they knew what the kitchen looked like.
The city needs to pass a city ordinance that closes a restaurant permanently if they reach 10 violations or more and refuses to fix them within 3 months.
As a chef and line cook for many different restaurants for over 10 years of my life, I can say that most places aren't anywhere near that bad. A lot of the restaurants I've worked at, including some very big names, usually get 10-30 violations every inspection. 110 though? Wow. Shocking.
True, a health inspector will always have a few citation but this restaurant need to be shut down and spend over 50k+ for it to be back up to code. I have a feeling the landlord needs to get involve too because of all the bad plumbing.
disgusting on not only the part of the restaurant but also the inspectors. when i was 14 i contracted e. coli from a family restaurant in maryland. my immune system is already weak because of an eating disorder i’ve had since i was 11, and so i had to be hospitalised and was in the hospital for weeks on iv to prevent my kidneys from failing. after a brief inspection the restaurant was shut down due to multiple violations. i can’t imagine the risks of over 100 violations. insane world we live in that restaurants like that can get away with just a slap in the wrist.
my jaw dropped when i saw the sewage overflow puddled on the bathroom floor. that’s MAJOR food safety violations. that’s insanely disgusting, the bathroom is being used for sure, the door is always open, people walk in and out spreading sewage over the floors, the same floors they put the fish and beef on. the beef was put on the prep table, the same prep table where they definitely touch/ use during food prep. basically they’re spreading sewage into the food, good job!
I can't believe he picked it tub of meat up and put it on top of a prep table!! Talk about disgusting. After they've been talking and out of that nasty bathroom spreading sewage.SMH
In my state they can close you down if you have any standing water inside the kitten area or in between where the food is stored and the kitchen. That's all it takes
Been a chef for over 30 years. I have never seen a kitchen that bad. I've seen some scary things that have made me walk right out. This tops all of them.
@Afro-Russ nah I worked at a Korean owned, Mexican owned. And Chinese owned restaurants and the Chinese one was just like this. They were all Korean barbeques.
Worked in a resteraunt that had an open door policy. Basically, any customer could come by any time of operating hours to pay a visit to the kitchen. They were always fastinated by the giant 50 gallon mixer in front of the door, as well as watching us work. It was the cleanest kitchen ive ever worked for. _aaaand the comments have been nuked.
@@My_Fair_Lady you must be mentally deficient and fragile if them explaining a work experience made you this hostile and defensive. are you castrated or what?
My dad and I would always go to China King Buffet in North Fort Myers when we lived down there for 8 years. It never came off as being dirty and we were never sick. Seeing this, though, makes me wonder what the kitchen really looked like. I worked in a 4 star kitchen for 5 years and the health inspector constantly showed up, without warning. The only violations we had were some bad wiring and a couple fire exits that were blocked, but that had to do with code and not health.
Those types of buffet restaurants can get crazy. I ate at one in Tampa (China Buffet on Fowler Ave near USF) and a large, live roach fell from a crack in the ceiling right down onto my chicken teriyaki on a stick. Of course my appetite was then gone and I went to the front counter to complain. They didn't want to so much as discount the meal and threatened to call the police when I told them that we can't even meet halfway because I barely ate anything. They just change names, do a little remodeling, and reopen doing the same thing over again.
@@visionop8 Also, how the hell do they keep getting away with changing names and reopening?? A typical American cuisine restaurant would never be that lucky and would get shut down.
I thought it was kind of funny how dude was touching his camera, cameraman claims assault and crimes committed, then smacks the guy's arm. Touching a camera is not assault, but you did just assault him lol.
@@flapplewapple I'm sorry but that's honestly the DUMBEST thing I've ever read! CLEARLY you have no idea as to what Assault even means. Read the Constitution.
As a hood cleaner who has been cleaning restaurants for a while I can say you’d be surprised how many restaurants have conditions like this. Simply disgusting and unsanitary.
I've worked in several kitchens and delis over the years since I moved alot...even in the nicest placest...I always worked with at least one person who I would never want to prepare my food. I worked in one deli and I had dropped a thing of provolone on the floor. I went to throw it away, and my coworker insisted I wait for the manager to tell me what to do with it...it was one of my first jobs so I didn't fuss, just set it aside figuring there was a certain way to dispose of it. Not only did that cheese sit on the floor for about 30 minutes before I could grab it (in the middle of a rush) it set out of temp for hours. When I came back from my lunch, there had been a shift change so I was working with someone else (an older lady who had worked in this deli for over a decade) and I had noticed the cheese was gone, and I asked about it..she told me she had sliced it and sold it to someone...when I explained what had happend she just laughed and said "oh well" I started telling everyone I knew not to come to that deli unless I was the one to serve them because I was the only one who actually gave a damn
I tried to get a job at a Chinese Buffet, once. They liked me, but knew I needed a LOT of time to get better, so the savvy Chinese manager took it easy on me. I showed up for my 2nd day of work, and he looked at the owner and they said something like, 'Didn't you tell him?' in Chinese, and they explained that they didn't need me anymore, and so I played dual player video game, with him for 30 minutes, and talked about fishing, and then I left. Working in a tight ship restaurant, sometimes if they fire you, it's for your own good. 110 violations. I eaten in places, which coulda gotten more. People go dim sum, sunday, and it's this big deal. But. Chinese idea of cleanliness is a lot of volume sold.
@@TSUTENKAKU007 true that's why I hope the place was shut down, but the advice is still worth giving before then. even if not everyone listens, if some do you have still helped someone.
@Bean Oak Are you basically referring to Asian immigrant restaurants - because this does not apply to any Italian, French, Scandinavian, Australian immigrant restaurants where I or my friends have eaten?!? And I'm not talking about a few minor violations which can happen (nearly) anywhere.
@@humzyymalik3334 most people commit door shuttering violations in their own kitchen. I wouldn’t read too far into a random comment over exaggerating their experiences for some internet clout
What did you expect? Youd have be a complete idiot to think the chinese who dont use toilet paper and eat dogs in there homeland come here and are suddenly "clean" people... they are NOT like us.... savages.
Once ate at a Chinese buffet and got a cup of ice water. Got to the half full mark on my drink when i realized i had some unidentified sediments at the bottom of my cup. Almost threw up
I worked at a restaurant for 1 week that had some serious problems. The owner was also the head chef. He was from France. He had problems with me charging the water in the after it was filled with food and grease. He said it cost too much to heat the water. At the end of my first night , I grabbed a broom and started sweeping. The owner told me to put it back away. He closed everything down and we were leaving 5 minutes later. There was food and trash all over the floor in the kitchen. Those were just two examples of what I reported to the health department the next day. Four day later , a health inspector walked in unannounced and 10 minutes later; we were shut down. I don’t know what kind of health code regulations exist in France but their apparently more relaxed than the U.S. The restaurant shut down about 6 months later after it was in the newspaper about the problems. The owner never did find out that I was the one who reported this but people were going to get sick. I only wanted the owner to take cleanliness seriously. I wasn’t trying to put him out of business. He put himself out of business by leaving garbage on the floor after closing. I worked in a different restaurant where cleanliness was very serious business. We removed deck drains for scrubbing. The lugs of tables were scrubbed. Rubber mats were taken outside and hosed down everyday. The floor was washed down at least once a day.
As a retired waitress this absolutely disgusted me. In this day and age those violations are owners trying to buck the system. Anyone knows these violations could shut you down immediately. Shame on the owners. I've quit jobs for fewer violations than this restaurant has.
It discusts me too, I worked shoneys kitchen bathrooms and register out in the country we do our job even if we don't like the pay and that is the reason why I don't do food service anymore as much as I'd love to
I don't eat Chinese. I've seen to much . Went into a place one day and an old Chinese lady was setting behind the counter with the rag she cleans the tables with flossing her toes. Here she said with her old crooked fungus toes taking the towel and cleaning in between each one.
@@madtrucker0983 I don’t normally want to go myself except for the one my husband used to work at because I at least feel confident knowing that he knows what it’s like behind the scenes but I went to one recently and the food was half hot half cold, I always get fruit first and the fruit tasted like someone accidentally sprayed cleaner on it. It was gross! When I was pregnant I went to a different one and because I felt too queazy I only got water and someone got me a lime and I made a limeade with a sugar packet. I went home that night and threw up the water. I know women are expected to throw up during pregnancy but I wasn’t like that and I only threw up 3 times during my whole pregnancy. Chinese buffet water being the first lol
@@thecrayolaeffect7 My wife and I got food poisoning from a Captain D's several years back. I literally thought this is it. I just knew I was going to die that night I've never been so sick in my life. We had it coming out of both ends LOL. Only one bathroom. One of us in the tub the other on the toilet.
Our town had a China Buffet for years, it was popular when it first opened, but that quickly faded. Became damn near a ghost restaurant except for holidays. I remember being at the place next door one day and walking outside to see the entire staff walk out and get in their cars and leave. Out of curiosity i went inside. Customers were still eating, there was food on the buffet lines, and the kitchen was all the way on. Nobody but the manager was there and he just said that everyone's meals were free and the store was closing immediately. Three days later I walked by that place, and the food was still right were it last was, covered in flies. I don't know what happened, but it must've been huge.
Sounds like everyone coordinated to quit at once, the manager has more loyalty to the place since they're more involved with the company so they can't leave that easily
There is a moment when a business is going out of business from not having any more money. So many other things are not being paid. When the employees realize they will not be paid or the final paycheck bounces they walk out. In some cases they take anything of value they can get hold of. This could include client files, equipment, supplies, etc. A Nursing home in the San Francisco Bay Area abruptly went out of business one Friday. The relatives took some of the patients. Other arrangements were made for several. Many were stranded over the weekend. The Police and Fire department knew about it. State regulatory agencies knew. They all took the weekend off. Licensed and senior employees walked out. The elderly disabled were left behind with dirty diapers and wanting food. The only two people who stayed were a cook and a Janitor. They stayed and worked through the weekend. Shame, Shame!
It is easy to tell when a restaurant uses questionable food safety practices. If the employees seem to not want you there, do not eat the food. If you smell any foul odor, chances are that they have plumbing issues from lazily stuffing everything down the sink instead of properly handling waste. If they are doing bad on the way out, you can bet good money that they are doing bad on the way in. The more welcome you feel at the dining establishment, the more likely you will find 'best practices' in use in the kitchen.
I worked in a restaurant for about 6 weeks (then left because I got a better job). The owner did everything to the book. Cooked and raw meats were on completely different shelves, fish was on a shelf of its own, vegetables and fruits on another set of shelves, and everything else was put in a specific spot on the final set of shelves. When we closed at 9, we wouldn’t leave until 11 or sometimes midnight. We had to clean the remaining dishes, mop and sweep the floors, clean the rubber mats, clean out the kitchen equipment, change the water in the steam table, clean the cutting board and other line equipment, wipe down the inside of each fridge to keep them clean, and then we would clean the dish washer and the sink the dishes went in. It took a long time even with 9 people all working at once. It doesn’t just take 10 minutes to clean an entire kitchen, it can take up to three hours sometimes. So when a restaurant stops making food or stops taking orders, it’s because they have so much cleaning and doing another order will set everything back. But it’s also easier to keep things clean than to let it fester and get out of control… and then have the restaurant shut down and have to clean up all of the gunk and built-up crap from when you hadn’t cleaned it. If you won’t keep your kitchen clean or won’t make sure the job is done, then you shouldn’t own a restaurant.
Sometimes restaurant owners hire relatives as their workers to save on labor costs. But of course, this often leads to very poor work quality and service. That owner might just have family working there.
Sounds just like bill millers, close at 9pm but the people we’ll stay until we get everything spotless and the time we would get out at would be 11:56, they’ll milk every time they get out of you
@@Halpin2006 it shouldn’t matter. A business owner is a leader and part of leading is ensuring people are receive proper training, guidance, and motivation. My father is a construction worker and he often hired our relatives to assist him. He would never cut corners or allow the, to do shoddy work on someone’s house. It shouldn’t be any different in a restaurant staffed with family employees
Gordon Ramsay would have a field day just looking at this. Stubborn owner, filthy kitchen, and probably bad food, checks all the list for a Kitchen Nightmare episode.
I agree. The owner has no care for the health if his customers and staff. An E. coli or Salmonella outbreak could have been fatal. You'll never educate or change attitudes like his. Banned for life.
As someone who has worked in restaurants for 5+ years, when we close the kitchen at 10pm its because we have to do 2 hours of cleaning after the kitchen closes. Please dont beg us to fry up some dinner at 9:55pm. Working in restaurants is long and hard
That doesn't warrant health hazards. People shouldn't work with this if they feel it's to hard. Many just wanna serve good food, but don't understand how much work that comes with this kinda work. It's not just glamorous making and servering of food, but also filthy work that MUST be done. Hire someone to do it if it is to much or CLOSE SHOP.
@@kedanClipse "Expect everything", indeed. What privilege to see an open sign at a place that exchanges food for money, and try to partake in that transaction during stated hours of operation.
I think its safe to say that absolutely every restaurant has some things hiding in their closet, no matter what type of restaurant or how expensive it is. But Im fairly certain that in the majority of cases its rather minor things, not much different to everybody's kitchen at home. But this here is shocking even compared to the usual "bad of the bunch". It literally looks like there has NEVER been anything done towards cleaning or sanitation or food safety or whatever.
Honestly you’d be surprised how clean restaurants are, it’s the small mom and pop shops that are hit and miss. It’s what popularized franchises, consumers have a certain level of confidence knowing the cleanliness and quality before stepping inside. Chinese culture has deteriorated in the last 70 years, China would of never compromised their value for an extra buck but the CCP has destroyed all traditional Chinese values (which were more closer to Japanese/Korean values) and has instilled a “make money at all expenses” mindset in a lot of a Chinese thus making their businesses and products shoddy.
Of course nothing was done towards cleaning or sanitation because they could care less and that's not their priority No.1 for being in business. Their ultimate goal is to maximize the profit no matter what!
You must operate a filthy restaurant to insinuate that every restaurant has sanity problems. You just have to setup procedures to keep the food and your customers safe, it's not rocket science. Also you must have a filthy kitchen at home. My kitchen is spotless, I store food properly, I prepare food properly, and I clean up properly. It's not hard to do.
Alright I know the main point of this video is about the violations but I just want to take a moment to praise the cameraman for standing his ground 1:38
While I'm not as seasoned of a restaurant veteran as others here (reaching my first full year as a waiter), even I can recognize that this wasn't just a lack of caring. It has to take pure hard work and effort to make a kitchen this unclean
I work in a kitchen and that's why you need at least one day of the week to deeply clean everything. If you just "clean" you just need time to get something like that.
literally I was a dish pit boy when i was 16 end of every single night was sanitize scrub all surfaces grills disinfect sinks sweep then mop and take all garbage and waste out. Not one violation. Americans are just lazy and wont clean.
This sickens me, I worked for a local Mexican restaurant and the were dragged under the bus by state health inspectors 6 years before I worked there, they found "chicken thawing in a bag on a table" the problem was the staff that didn't really understand English couldn't give them the exact time it was there, they also cleaned the floor and everything else in above a normal fashion but couldn't communicate that to the health inspectors so they wrote it up. They had 4 total violations, but health inspectors made it way bigger deal than what it was, it ended up in local papers, and people were scared that from what the health inspectors said "they could be leaving meat out forever and serving it, and not cleaning the kitchen." like I said I worked there six years later, and the owner was still shook over that visit, he was gone, and he was the only one at the time there that spoke good English, I asked him about it and he said "That's why someone's always here now that speaks good English, doesn't matter if it's me or someone else you see how clean I am and how I keep up to code and If a health inspector comes in I need someone that can vouch for that". It was accurate, he followed US health code to a T and always had. Just shocked me that a state health team would Damn him and let a place like this keep running.
@@anthonylawrence2094 Lol I wasn't there when they got drug under by the state health inspectors, but like I said they made sure to contact the local paper and make it sounds way worse than what it really was. They really didn't break any codes, they just couldn't communicate that they had been doing everything correctly so they wrote it down anyway.
If you personally know food inspectors, you’ll understand that these findings are quite common. Maybe not this many violations; but the stories are still grotesque.
Yeah the roaches were bad and that bathroom was utterly disgusting. But individual "violations" can be as trivial as a mop touching the floor when it is stored. 110 probably is more telling of the inspector then it is the restaurant.
I had a boss who consistently forgot to order hand soap and/or hand towels for the store including bathrooms. (He was terrible at ordering in general) He also stole time, scheduled people for one-hour shifts, showed up late every day, promoted people who didn't do anything, and punished the people who did. On top of that his boss was worse and protected him. There is no way this Buffet place had 110 violations without a health inspector that was just as bad as these 2 winners.
@@ChrisMartin-ox2hl It was a gas station called Cumberland Farms. But, I don't think I ever worked at a job that actually followed their own policies and procedures.
@@boogynights Yes, and this is exactly why I shared this. How can this country ever survive if corruption has spread all the way down to the lowest levels? After working there for 10 years I got fired and when I tried to fight it the labor department didn't care whatsoever. In fact, the guy put in charge of my wrongful termination hearing was the most miserable uninspired person I've ever met in my life. This is why I lost even before the hearing began. Looking at this story with the buffet, it sounds like they consistently turned a blind eye until someone wanted them removed. Either they had a plan to replace it with something specific or to lease it to the highest bidder.
Coming from someone who used to work at a Chinese restaurant, be very careful I’ve worked for more than one and they’re cheap as hell and care more about saving money than they do about food and people safety. I’m not racist I love Chinese culture and foods but a lot of Chinese restaurant owners cut corners
I've worked in several food service positions at fast food places, grocery stores, diners and such and while there is certainly a wide range of cleanliness I found based on management and staff, but what they all had in common is a BIG cleaning shift just prior to inspections. They really should be random sometimes.
Food safety inspector here and our inspections are unannounced if at all possible. The only time we need to make arrangements ahead of time are for facilities with concerns regarding security, or that have odd or inconsistent hours.
my job is pretty clean when handling food(although the grill line floor gets rather dirty during our rush). one thing that always makes me laugh is that whenever there's inspection or district managers coming, the rust on the ac vents is painted over.
They are random, the state inspection is random, usually a company pays it's OWN people to inspect, THOSE are scheduled where everyone cleans as you mentioned, but the state inspection will not announce themselves until they are standing in the door. So I get you, I wish there was way more state inspections maybe 2-3 times a month or more
The worst things are usually the soda machines and tea dispensers, they are rarely cleaned properly and have alot of gunk build up. Also fryers and grills are bot cleaned properly very often, as anyone whose ever had to clean a grease trap before in their life knows, its insanely disgusting and dirty work, and most employees will 100% avoid it until they are forced to clean it.
Can confirm. Worked in the cafeteria at my college all 4 years. I was even hired as a student manager. I never once cleaned the grease trap, and to my knowledge, the full time employees had a grease trap schedule that was set in stone. I've also seen what happens when the grease gets spilled. Not. Fun.
@@allenjunge4127 ruined many a week night of mine in HS, nothing like getting to stay late because someone spilled the grease trap inside and itd take multiple people cleaning it if we wanted to have it done before the break of dawn
yeah employees making under $10/hr should NEVER have to do that job lol not worth it. Used to have to clean the traps AND behind the grills\the floors when I worked at Mcdonald's for $5.45/hr... couldn't pay me less than $100/hr to do that now
i’ve worked in a kitchen environment since i was 15, the health inspectors show up randomly 2 times a year to each store, to pass an inspection and sometime within the next 6 or so months they come back and check again how have you not cleaned your kitchen in that amount of time to have racked up 110 violations look i’m gonna be honest with these industrialized kitchens it’s hard to maintain 100% clean all the time so sometimes things slip but i’ve never even gotten a violation on a health inspection to get 110…. you literally have to be doing NOTHING but making food and leaving at the end of the night, that’s actually disgusting asf man.
Feels like they did an active effort to make It dirtier instead of simply doing no effort to clean It. As for the inspetor, I doubt Jr even had to make that effort you mentioned to rack the numbers they did this for him
Violations can happen and an inspector can also be wrong. We had a few tea leaves on the floor and the inspector came and said they were mice droppings. 110 violation is too much. We get a score that must be posted outside and almost no restaurant gets a 100 perfect score 100% of the time.
0:45 The reporter tells the guy there's a bin of steak on the floor and if he could move it. The guy proceeds to pick up the bin that's probably dirty and contaminated on the bottom and places it on a food preparation surface. He also dragged the bottom of the bin on the cutting board. As Gordon Ramsey would say "SHUT IT DOWN".
After seeing this scene, I can confirm that this is not a well-established and professional restaurant that has proper standards. And people should stop going to eat at their place to stop them from continuing their dirty business and feed dirty things to more people.
Im a restaurant manager and i can honestly say I've never seen a kitchen that disgusting. Most health departments would have a meltdown over that kind of food safety neglect. However, if they have had a follow up inspection and were allowed to open back up, it's safe to say that the kitchen is suitable... For now 🙄
I worked at cafes in NYC that only served drinks, pastries, and sandwiches and we couldn’t even get away with crushed coffee beans on the floor near the espresso machine. (The inspector said that it COULD be rat droppings). I have no idea how a kitchen could get that filthy in the first place, let alone how they could be allowed to reopen. The bathroom alone makes me want to throw up! How can the workers even stand it?
I was a commercial property mgr in the sf bay area for many years. Our chinese restaurant tenants were notorious for numerous health inspection violations. Many chinese restaurant owners learned their unhealthy habits back home in China. Unfortinately, this is the U.S. and our local health standards are much stricter (ie: you cannot carve up the dead chicken or fish on a home depot bucket in back alley... totally disgusting & I saw it many times 😂😂).
I worked in a kitchen and the worst thing I discovered was maggots under a giant cutting board that was apparently never moved. The place was mostly clean aside from that, and it hasn't been a problem since I found it that first time, because nobody knew you even could move it.
Not sure where the other reply went asking how nobody knew, but no, it didn't smell, it was a pretty open area and well ventilated. It was an upscale supermarket kitchen, specifically the pizza station, and the cutting board looked like it was an entire surface on its own, there was a cutout in the wall and the cutting board occupied the entire space and was custom fit for that spot and even overhanged it a bit so it looked more like a table top than a cutting board, it's very easy to think it's a table or surface that can't be removed. What caused them was cornmeal used to dust the pizza getting into the tiniest cracks around the edges of the cutting board, and water leaking into those cracks when we'd clean it. I felt bad for the night manager who had to help me clean it, I was closing the kitchen alone when I discovered it and needed help since that cutting board is too big for one person to handle. It wasn't so horrible for me (but still gross obviously) because I've owned plenty of reptiles in my lifetime, and with reptiles comes feeder bugs of various kinds, so I'm sort of used to handling squirmy things that I'd much rather not handle. It does sort of speak of the incompetence of the previous kitchen manager though who left shortly after I got there, even if it was hard to notice you can remove that board. I discovered that it could be moved within the first week of being moved into that position, and she and her staff had been in there for years.
@@queenmisanthrope As I said in my reply, it's custom made for that spot and huge, so no. I would have, but not my decision to make. Still, we sanitized the hell out of it with so many chemicals and so much scrubbing that it was probably cleaner than when it was new.
I'm a health inspector. I've had my fair share of "problem child" restaurants, and this is like all of them combined into one. There's this thing called active managerial control, and it's clear they don't have that at all. Also, employee morale and the overall work environment have a direct effect on the practices and cleanliness of a restaurant. The more toxic a job, the less employees are going to care. Managers and owners, do you part. Set an example. Care about your employees, your customers, and your business. Otherwise, you can end up like this place and become a threat to public health.
Never the owners should not be allowed to own a restaurant in the United States ever again any restaurants or food service they had their chance ………… and just think this probably goes on everywhere in America , turn a blind eye as they laugh stupid Americans , haa haaa all the way to the bank 😢
This is honestly embarrassing, as someone who works/runs a restaurant, it would nvr fly. Whats the point of health inspections if places like this are allowed to stay open?????? FOR REAL
I “worked” in a family run takeout restaurant when I was 16. They used the same utensils to handle raw meat as they did to plate the food. They also wanted to pay me cash under minimum wage 🙃 when my dad found out he told me to ghost them and find a real job, so I did. Later on found out that he considered calling the health department and the DOL about it
This is why im so thankful we Pakistani's (and some other Muslims) usually never work in restaurant unles its their own. We even would rather teach the elderly how to make sweaters than taking food jobs.
There should never be a reason why a restaurant is in such bad condition and is allowed to remain open to make necessary corrections. That place should have been shut down immediately.
I’m a health inspector for restaurants. Sometimes, it’s almost impossible to shut a restaurant down due to political intervention. It’s not right, but it happens. I’ve seen it first hand. Getting a motel shut down is even more difficult. Don’t ask me how I know.
@@toomanyhobbies2011 your statement is definitely true...it's the culture and bad habits they are used to!!! You should just observe their street food preparations in their Country...awful.
Really REALLY sad thing is that here in Louisiana they wouldn't even have sighted them! Oh, they may have written them up about the bathroom, and just given them time to repair it.
I worked at a Quiznos and the owners never wanted to fix anything. Our coolers broke down so the food kept going bad. There were bugs. It’s disgusting. You never know what kind of stuff goes on behind closed doors in restaurants
If Gordon Ramsay was in that buffet, that will be the most insane Kitchen Nightmares episode ever.
Think if Jon was there…
@@spaceboinasa39430 lmao
That's nothing, they should pop into the local jack in the box's. That bobble head is gross.
I would love to see that lol
lol
110 violations yet they weren’t closed down? Sounds like the food inspector should be inspected.
What's sad is the people still eating the garbage food from there 😂
@@jayee42099 frr
@@jayee42099 there’s a chance you ate nasty stuff from somewhere if you ate out. It’s sad that the system is deteriorating and restaurant owners are only interested in money and hiring cheap unprofessional labor to run their kitchens.
They paid off inspectors with Chinese young girls.
@FN-1701AgentGodzillaRangerPrime Ω idk im not american 🤭
110 violations is impressive, I think thats a world record 👀
Lol they closed down and are gone xd
@@mikemancini313didn’t they reopen?
@@ParadoxGraffiti200 I don't recall so.
@@mikemancini313good
Florida must be one of those states that fired all the health inspectors in favor of helping Tx contain it's migrant problems. lol. Morons.
My favorite part about this is that, if they hadn't specified the location, it genuinely could have been from anywhere in this country
Miami. Pay attention.
@@tgeraldPay attention yourself, or learn better English comprehension.
The buffet's storefront, genuinely thought it was my local buffet here on Downstate NY before they said Miami. but it literally could've been anywhere
@@fuse4967Reread the comment before being such a smartass
@@tgerald Pay attention.
It’s insane that the inspector didn’t just shut them down and their license revoked forever. That’s disgusting.
I worked at a place where I wondered the same thing on a daily basis (wasn't quite as bad but was pretty awful). I concluded that they were paying off the health inspectors, it had to be the only way.
@@3John-Bishop I really hope that's a joke
There was no rats or mouse droppings. If you go to Asia nothing is in refrigeration.
I looked in google maps, and thankfully, the restaurant sign has been removed, and the building is empty.
@@IncredibleStudiosYTM haha😂
My sister is a fine dining chef & she said... "If people knew what goes on in kitchens, they would NEVER go out to eat .."
@Susan B.
I'M A CHEF 👩🍳TO, TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOUR SISTER.👩🍳
I only would eat at an open kitchen restaurant.
Especially KFC. Truly disgusting, you have no idea.
@@lexuses3942 yes I do from that nasty hard overly oiled chicken they serve out they're not the best plus when they use to give out a free cookie when you order your meal they never gave me my free cookies so kfc sucks and the chicken does the most
I've worked in several people would be absolutely shocked!
This is in Miami if anybody was wondering.
You're welcome.
It's good to know we CAN check out resto violations online.
Our governments doing their job.
Hooray for inspectors. ...as long as they treat all owners equally.
The government let them reopen, so clearly not.
Yup. Also, a lesson for the "Libertarian" crowd... REGULATIONS ARE YOUR FRIEND. Without regulations, we would have filth and ecoli all over the place in our restaurants, hospitals, environment, etc.
@@SpukiTheLoveKitten75 I wouldn't be surprised if some Libertarians are in favor of incentives TO be sanitary. But as a minor germaphobe, I'd rather have both incentives (for extra cleanliness) and punishment (for not meeting standards).
@@jacobshirley3457 Yup.
Gordon Ramsay would see God early if he went anywhere near this place
He would die upon entry into the kitchen
If only Yu could stomp in and do some magical Yu noises.. atleast the customers would have some sort of relief
think he would literally shrivel up and seize on the spot, no words just repulsive disgust
Can’t wait to eat here. I love chinese 😋
Fact check true
The camera man had giant balls to defend himself and talk back to the owner. We need more people like this, he better had been promoted by now.
Fr
You should get the owner’s full name
like Rob Wolchek from Michigan,if you haven't seen him, it's worth watching him going after fraudster business operators, and even Judges that are getting paid a full time salary but only working like 20% of the time (or less) that they are paid for. He has no fear.
@@sanansa4567 thanks for the tip. I'm going to watch him
Promoted to what? In-studio cameraman? and miss all the excitement in the field
Didn't even know that there were 110 different violations possible
As former Cook who's been in the restaurant business for 7 years, it frustrates me when I have lazy coworkers who don't take cleanliness and proper food care seriously and cut corners. Left the industry and its been the best decision I've ever made.
My mom ate at a restaurant in Florida in 2011. She died from ecoli and a bacterial infection. The restaurant was shut down and on news. However, it reopened three months later after passing inspection. What was found was totally disgusting.
There are so many restaurants dirty filthy roaches . Some cooks are dirty never wash hands
I have not eaten out in 12 years. Today you have to even be careful with regular groceries. I get alerts on my phone daily of recalls.
I’m sorry. That’s terrible.
I’m so sorry for your loss.
@@rachelthompson7487 Thank you so very much. ♥️
@@dannyhernandez265 Thank you so very much. ♥️. It was beyond awful 😞
I'm sorry about your mom.
I worked as a health inspector for 20+ years and the most violations a restaurant had was around 60. 110 violations is legitimately not possible, how could they let their restaurant get that bad?
The Chinese don't care. Only the holy dollar matters.
@@zynx2981 have you seen the infamous chinese "gutter oil" video? Shit's gross
Completely agree, I think someone dropped the ball and they went a while without an inspection and it piled up. But still even 110 seems like you’d have to really try to get to that point 🤣
@@bendunfee4324 That would be "everyone evacuate the nationalists are piling in". Not everything or everyone is racist else the word loses it meaning, you racist for calling someone else a racist.
Seemed pretty racist to me
As someone who works in a restaurant, I could never imagine working in a place that dirty and with that many violations.
I would report that place to the health department and sue these workers
Would walk out on my first day 100% And that's why shady places never hire outside family / connections
Same for me. Used to worked on a chinese restaurant, but not as worse as the one on the video.... Still I quit after 2 weeks.
Quarrels almost everyday, food placed on floor, cockroaches crawling everywhere and even on plates, chinese staffs randomly spitting, no chopping board color codes(cross-contamination), cooked and RTE plated with bare hands, residues everywhere, communication barriers (Chinese staffs can't speak and understand english), and etc.
@@sterey3571 You are responsible for that aswell because you didn't sue that restaurant.
Watching these videos makes me more thankful than ever for homecooked food
Thank your mom when she says “ We got food at home “
GLOGANG MUSICK factsssssz
Lol! Exactly!!!!
Lol true!
GLOGANG MUSICK not that I’d condone eating at a Chinese restaurant. I stopped years ago. However, the food you got at home cake from a grocery store and Factory! It’s just as bad - I know, I’ve worked at a grocery store, ice cream
cone factory and restaurant. That stuff out the box is contaminated, grocery store meat is insanitary 🤢 .... so your moms not doing you an favors 😂😂😂😂😂
🤣I've heard those exact words so many times from my mom!
I’m glad Gordon stopped doing Kitchen Nightmares- because this would’ve surely killed him
Imagine if he wrestled with one of Gordon's cameras. That man would recieve no mercy.
But why glad?
😹
@@guineapiglady2841 we want gordon alive
@@whydoiexist2180 But weird Kat Howard is glad that his show is canceled.
That owner should be in jail
The problem is these places are not only allowed to reopen, they're allowed to do so without any tighter scrutiny from the health department.
Same thing with fire marshals. The fire marshal around here has issued a warning for no fire extinguishers and no exit signs for the last 5 years. No fine, just a "Hey, I'm going to retire eventually so you might want to fix this because the next guy might not let it slide". That is a direct quote.
Pay-offs.
I used to work at a restaurant as a dishwasher, and looking back I'm actually super thankful the chefs were so uptight about cleaning the place at the end of every night.
There are so many restaurants people go to that they wouldn't if they knew what the kitchen looked like.
@@justiful9215 Thats actually smart
Which is why I always use their restroom first to help judge cleanliness: if even the bathroom is gross, I know what I'm getting myself into
What state is this restaurant in ?
@@lencholara1211 The one I worked at? Pennsylvania.
@@lovely1641 that's really smart! I'm gonna do this myself tbh
They should have been closed permanently!
I agree. Who is getting a kick back to not close this nasty place.
I agree. They don’t add employee
They closed in 2018.
@@chargermopar great!
That's why Cortana viruses is on the rise. Scary to eat now to Chinese restaurant. Yucky.
The city needs to pass a city ordinance that closes a restaurant permanently if they reach 10 violations or more and refuses to fix them within 3 months.
Thank you to inspect all those restaurants
As a chef and line cook for many different restaurants for over 10 years of my life, I can say that most places aren't anywhere near that bad. A lot of the restaurants I've worked at, including some very big names, usually get 10-30 violations every inspection. 110 though? Wow. Shocking.
True, a health inspector will always have a few citation but this restaurant need to be shut down and spend over 50k+ for it to be back up to code. I have a feeling the landlord needs to get involve too because of all the bad plumbing.
owner was trying to achieve high score
gotta have some achievements in life somehow lol
makes me feel good about my dining court... we might get 2 or 3 per visit
@@danny47906 work at a McDonald's and our last visit we got 1 and it was the temperature not reading correctly on the freezer
10-30 violations sounds like a huge deal. Are they just a bunch of tidiness nitpicks or something?
disgusting on not only the part of the restaurant but also the inspectors. when i was 14 i contracted e. coli from a family restaurant in maryland. my immune system is already weak because of an eating disorder i’ve had since i was 11, and so i had to be hospitalised and was in the hospital for weeks on iv to prevent my kidneys from failing. after a brief inspection the restaurant was shut down due to multiple violations. i can’t imagine the risks of over 100 violations. insane world we live in that restaurants like that can get away with just a slap in the wrist.
You know the food had to slap
Bro all that stuff adds the extra flavor
When the restaurant is filthy with rude employees and the food is handed in styrofoam boxes but it tastes fire.
my jaw dropped when i saw the sewage overflow puddled on the bathroom floor. that’s MAJOR food safety violations. that’s insanely disgusting, the bathroom is being used for sure, the door is always open, people walk in and out spreading sewage over the floors, the same floors they put the fish and beef on. the beef was put on the prep table, the same prep table where they definitely touch/ use during food prep. basically they’re spreading sewage into the food, good job!
Did you see the toilet?? Full of piss🤮
Yh I wish I didn't read this comment ugh feel sick to my stomach
It's. . . a. . . Chinese food hall >.
I can't believe he picked it tub of meat up and put it on top of a prep table!! Talk about disgusting. After they've been talking and out of that nasty bathroom spreading sewage.SMH
In my state they can close you down if you have any standing water inside the kitten area or in between where the food is stored and the kitchen. That's all it takes
I feel bad for the people who’ve eaten there and have gotten sick because of it
Bro just goes down his reccomended and comments on everything
@@bobayden6217 Why are you mad about it? 🤔🙄 Also, why are you stalking people?
Bro are we the same person, I stg everything I watch you've commented on 😆
Hell they prob have a better chance on eating on fear factor
My man goes everywhere
I completely stopped eating at chinese restaurants after i found pot scrubber metal in the food in several different restaurants.
insane
@@zekeggy And COCKROACHES in the food or alive and walking around in the food, on the tables, on the walls and floor...
I love this!! It should be an episode on South Park. As the video goes on, it gets even more hilarious.
Been a chef for over 30 years. I have never seen a kitchen that bad. I've seen some scary things that have made me walk right out. This tops all of them.
Was a foodservice truck driver. I can say every single Chinese restaurant I went to was like this. Every one.
I worked on some kitchens that legit made me sick, but this one really tops it off
"been a chef for over 30 years" yeah only in *Developed Countries*
@@ziyeren5509 Someone's salty because Americans are "cleaner" than Zi Ye Ren's place of residence at least with regulations.
@Afro-Russ nah I worked at a Korean owned, Mexican owned. And Chinese owned restaurants and the Chinese one was just like this. They were all Korean barbeques.
Worked in a resteraunt that had an open door policy. Basically, any customer could come by any time of operating hours to pay a visit to the kitchen. They were always fastinated by the giant 50 gallon mixer in front of the door, as well as watching us work.
It was the cleanest kitchen ive ever worked for.
_aaaand the comments have been nuked.
@@My_Fair_Lady and what does you writing that do? nothing.
@@My_Fair_Lady you must be mentally deficient and fragile if them explaining a work experience made you this hostile and defensive. are you castrated or what?
The only issue I see with that is all those dirty customers spreading their germs! 🤣
@@My_Fair_Lady oof my fragile bones
@@My_Fair_Lady you are one strange, bitter individual lol...
Thanks for karen❤ We need more certified people such as these to expose bad restaurants. I appreciate news like this.
My dad and I would always go to China King Buffet in North Fort Myers when we lived down there for 8 years. It never came off as being dirty and we were never sick. Seeing this, though, makes me wonder what the kitchen really looked like. I worked in a 4 star kitchen for 5 years and the health inspector constantly showed up, without warning. The only violations we had were some bad wiring and a couple fire exits that were blocked, but that had to do with code and not health.
Those types of buffet restaurants can get crazy. I ate at one in Tampa (China Buffet on Fowler Ave near USF) and a large, live roach fell from a crack in the ceiling right down onto my chicken teriyaki on a stick. Of course my appetite was then gone and I went to the front counter to complain. They didn't want to so much as discount the meal and threatened to call the police when I told them that we can't even meet halfway because I barely ate anything. They just change names, do a little remodeling, and reopen doing the same thing over again.
@@visionop8 Also, how the hell do they keep getting away with changing names and reopening?? A typical American cuisine restaurant would never be that lucky and would get shut down.
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland it's in Florida. That should answer your question lol!
Never seen a camera man actually talk back
Casey S haha year!!
Yes *
The cameraman is brave and professional
I thought it was kind of funny how dude was touching his camera, cameraman claims assault and crimes committed, then smacks the guy's arm. Touching a camera is not assault, but you did just assault him lol.
@@flapplewapple I'm sorry but that's honestly the DUMBEST thing I've ever read! CLEARLY you have no idea as to what Assault even means. Read the Constitution.
As a hood cleaner who has been cleaning restaurants for a while I can say you’d be surprised how many restaurants have conditions like this. Simply disgusting and unsanitary.
What's the worst?
@ probably Golden Corral & Applebees 😂
could you tell us more? i personally would like to be aware.
I've worked in several kitchens and delis over the years since I moved alot...even in the nicest placest...I always worked with at least one person who I would never want to prepare my food.
I worked in one deli and I had dropped a thing of provolone on the floor. I went to throw it away, and my coworker insisted I wait for the manager to tell me what to do with it...it was one of my first jobs so I didn't fuss, just set it aside figuring there was a certain way to dispose of it.
Not only did that cheese sit on the floor for about 30 minutes before I could grab it (in the middle of a rush) it set out of temp for hours. When I came back from my lunch, there had been a shift change so I was working with someone else (an older lady who had worked in this deli for over a decade) and I had noticed the cheese was gone, and I asked about it..she told me she had sliced it and sold it to someone...when I explained what had happend she just laughed and said "oh well"
I started telling everyone I knew not to come to that deli unless I was the one to serve them because I was the only one who actually gave a damn
And he was " The Last of the Damn Givers"
They gave the ADDRESS to the place; put 'em in BLAST!
Great job! 👍 👍 👍
I tried to get a job at a Chinese Buffet, once. They liked me, but knew I needed a LOT of time to get better, so the savvy Chinese manager took it easy on me. I showed up for my 2nd day of work, and he looked at the owner and they said something like, 'Didn't you tell him?' in Chinese, and they explained that they didn't need me anymore, and so I played dual player video game, with him for 30 minutes, and talked about fishing, and then I left. Working in a tight ship restaurant, sometimes if they fire you, it's for your own good. 110 violations. I eaten in places, which coulda gotten more. People go dim sum, sunday, and it's this big deal. But. Chinese idea of cleanliness is a lot of volume sold.
Those people telling potential customers about the problem literally could've saved lives. Food poisoning can kill.
I got food poisoning at a china buffet. Two weeks later it was shut down. 2 weeks too late if you ask me
@@peytonhays1322 Did you go to the hospital
Some people will not listen to good advice until some thing happens then they will finally wake up to the reality, which will be too late.
@@TSUTENKAKU007 true that's why I hope the place was shut down, but the advice is still worth giving before then. even if not everyone listens, if some do you have still helped someone.
@@peytonhays1322 sue them
That owner is a sick person to knowingly let people eat food that was prepared in a place like that. He doesn't deserve to have a restaurant.
@@VioFax Fish on the floor? Aint no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll serve you some flies. I got nothing to lose so I just go ahead and eat food
@@VioFax You’re incredibly stupid 😂
Who the hell wants to eat DISEASE? Clearly you don’t value your life.
i mean dont go to sushi restaurants then...every one i worked for was owned by chinese and like this...
@Bean Oak thats just depressing to think about
@Bean Oak Are you basically referring to Asian immigrant restaurants - because this does not apply to any Italian, French, Scandinavian, Australian immigrant restaurants where I or my friends have eaten?!? And I'm not talking about a few minor violations which can happen (nearly) anywhere.
This is not only hazardous, it's criminal. They should be shut down for good and the owners should be in jail
Everyone clicked on this, because literally every town has a "China Buffet"
Sure do😄
Lmfao for real I thought this was a spot by me
Except this is actually where i live lol, miami.
@@goldengreenfrog5259 I thought this was a spot we just discovered having issues until I realized it was years ago, lol
Yup. And ours had major health violations too!
I worked in a kitchen restaurant for little over a year. Really opened my eyes to how gross and unsanitary everything is.
Lol I’ve worked in a restaurant for 6 years and I’m still there, never had any type of problem due to it being unsafe or unclean
@@humzyymalik3334 depends where you go.. lol
@@humzyymalik3334 most people commit door shuttering violations in their own kitchen. I wouldn’t read too far into a random comment over exaggerating their experiences for some internet clout
MC for me
What did you expect? Youd have be a complete idiot to think the chinese who dont use toilet paper and eat dogs in there homeland come here and are suddenly "clean" people... they are NOT like us.... savages.
Once ate at a Chinese buffet and got a cup of ice water. Got to the half full mark on my drink when i realized i had some unidentified sediments at the bottom of my cup. Almost threw up
I’m aware of the slogan that the worse the inspection grade (and the more run-down the restaurant), the better the food, but this is crazzzyyyyy
I worked at a restaurant for 1 week that had some serious problems. The owner was also the head chef. He was from France. He had problems with me charging the water in the after it was filled with food and grease. He said it cost too much to heat the water. At the end of my first night , I grabbed a broom and started sweeping. The owner told me to put it back away. He closed everything down and we were leaving 5 minutes later. There was food and trash all over the floor in the kitchen. Those were just two examples of what I reported to the health department the next day. Four day later , a health inspector walked in unannounced and 10 minutes later; we were shut down. I don’t know what kind of health code regulations exist in France but their apparently more relaxed than the U.S. The restaurant shut down about 6 months later after it was in the newspaper about the problems. The owner never did find out that I was the one who reported this but people were going to get sick. I only wanted the owner to take cleanliness seriously. I wasn’t trying to put him out of business. He put himself out of business by leaving garbage on the floor after closing. I worked in a different restaurant where cleanliness was very serious business. We removed deck drains for scrubbing. The lugs of tables were scrubbed. Rubber mats were taken outside and hosed down everyday. The floor was washed down at least once a day.
snitch lol
@@juanestrada6585 You're calling this person who probably saved lives a snitch? You're ok with your family eating trash and dying?
@Juan Estrada you probably like eating nasty food at restaurants. Yuck
@@juanestrada6585 Fk 👎👎👎👎
Do you all still want to buy Made in China products and foods?? HA HA HA!!
As a retired waitress this absolutely disgusted me. In this day and age those violations are owners trying to buck the system. Anyone knows these violations could shut you down immediately. Shame on the owners. I've quit jobs for fewer violations than this restaurant has.
So this is a war you can’t win. They’ll just set up camp somewhere else under a new name.
It discusts me too, I worked shoneys kitchen bathrooms and register out in the country we do our job even if we don't like the pay and that is the reason why I don't do food service anymore as much as I'd love to
Still happens. Come to Florida, you'll see dozens of health violations on the websites.
I think they are taking the "Highest Score Win' to a whole new level.
You better check this place out if you're cat or dog is missing.
The fact that this looks like the same buffet in almost every city freaked me out
I don't eat Chinese. I've seen to much . Went into a place one day and an old Chinese lady was setting behind the counter with the rag she cleans the tables with flossing her toes. Here she said with her old crooked fungus toes taking the towel and cleaning in between each one.
@@madtrucker0983 I don’t normally want to go myself except for the one my husband used to work at because I at least feel confident knowing that he knows what it’s like behind the scenes but I went to one recently and the food was half hot half cold, I always get fruit first and the fruit tasted like someone accidentally sprayed cleaner on it. It was gross! When I was pregnant I went to a different one and because I felt too queazy I only got water and someone got me a lime and I made a limeade with a sugar packet. I went home that night and threw up the water. I know women are expected to throw up during pregnancy but I wasn’t like that and I only threw up 3 times during my whole pregnancy. Chinese buffet water being the first lol
@@thecrayolaeffect7 My wife and I got food poisoning from a Captain D's several years back. I literally thought this is it. I just knew I was going to die that night I've never been so sick in my life. We had it coming out of both ends LOL. Only one bathroom. One of us in the tub the other on the toilet.
I only eat in Chinese take outs where I can see the food being prepared.
lol fr it does
Our town had a China Buffet for years, it was popular when it first opened, but that quickly faded. Became damn near a ghost restaurant except for holidays. I remember being at the place next door one day and walking outside to see the entire staff walk out and get in their cars and leave. Out of curiosity i went inside. Customers were still eating, there was food on the buffet lines, and the kitchen was all the way on. Nobody but the manager was there and he just said that everyone's meals were free and the store was closing immediately. Three days later I walked by that place, and the food was still right were it last was, covered in flies. I don't know what happened, but it must've been huge.
Man now I really want to know what happened!!
@@ash-ir7qe chi-na happened
Sounds like everyone coordinated to quit at once, the manager has more loyalty to the place since they're more involved with the company so they can't leave that easily
There is a moment when a business is going out of business from not having any more money. So many other things are not being paid. When the employees realize they will not be paid or the final paycheck bounces they walk out. In some cases they take anything of value they can get hold of. This could include client files, equipment, supplies, etc.
A Nursing home in the San Francisco Bay Area abruptly went out of business one Friday. The relatives took some of the patients. Other arrangements were made for several. Many were stranded over the weekend. The Police and Fire department knew about it. State regulatory agencies knew. They all took the weekend off. Licensed and senior employees walked out. The elderly disabled were left behind with dirty diapers and wanting food. The only two people who stayed were a cook and a Janitor. They stayed and worked through the weekend.
Shame, Shame!
that is insane curious as to what happened
You know you’re done for when the cameraman talks back
It is easy to tell when a restaurant uses questionable food safety practices. If the employees seem to not want you there, do not eat the food. If you smell any foul odor, chances are that they have plumbing issues from lazily stuffing everything down the sink instead of properly handling waste. If they are doing bad on the way out, you can bet good money that they are doing bad on the way in. The more welcome you feel at the dining establishment, the more likely you will find 'best practices' in use in the kitchen.
I worked in a restaurant for about 6 weeks (then left because I got a better job). The owner did everything to the book. Cooked and raw meats were on completely different shelves, fish was on a shelf of its own, vegetables and fruits on another set of shelves, and everything else was put in a specific spot on the final set of shelves.
When we closed at 9, we wouldn’t leave until 11 or sometimes midnight. We had to clean the remaining dishes, mop and sweep the floors, clean the rubber mats, clean out the kitchen equipment, change the water in the steam table, clean the cutting board and other line equipment, wipe down the inside of each fridge to keep them clean, and then we would clean the dish washer and the sink the dishes went in. It took a long time even with 9 people all working at once. It doesn’t just take 10 minutes to clean an entire kitchen, it can take up to three hours sometimes. So when a restaurant stops making food or stops taking orders, it’s because they have so much cleaning and doing another order will set everything back. But it’s also easier to keep things clean than to let it fester and get out of control… and then have the restaurant shut down and have to clean up all of the gunk and built-up crap from when you hadn’t cleaned it. If you won’t keep your kitchen clean or won’t make sure the job is done, then you shouldn’t own a restaurant.
Sometimes restaurant owners hire relatives as their workers to save on labor costs. But of course, this often leads to very poor work quality and service. That owner might just have family working there.
Same we close at 8:00 but I leave at 10:30
Sounds just like bill millers, close at 9pm but the people we’ll stay until we get everything spotless and the time we would get out at would be 11:56, they’ll milk every time they get out of you
@@Halpin2006 it shouldn’t matter. A business owner is a leader and part of leading is ensuring people are receive proper training, guidance, and motivation. My father is a construction worker and he often hired our relatives to assist him. He would never cut corners or allow the, to do shoddy work on someone’s house. It shouldn’t be any different in a restaurant staffed with family employees
Same
Gordon Ramsay would have a field day just looking at this. Stubborn owner, filthy kitchen, and probably bad food, checks all the list for a Kitchen Nightmare episode.
There's a new show idea: Ramsey Vs Buffets! He has to eat as much as he can befote going to inspect...and evwry episode he throws up!
gordon would start throwing hands over this one
He'll probably end up killing someone
Communist ideology still lives at china buffet,
I'm still curious why he never did a Chinese restaurant on KN.
i feel like alot of people will just say "well it's cheap and it can't be that bad.." and just keep on going there.
Me, who worked in Restaurants for years: The only thing unusual about this is that the Health Inspector wrote them down.
Disgusting. ... That place should be condemned and closed down, the owner should be barred from the restaurant business PERMANENTLY.
but I bet their general tso's chicken was great!
They were shut down this video was 3 years ago :)
arrested
I agree. The owner has no care for the health if his customers and staff. An E. coli or Salmonella outbreak could have been fatal. You'll never educate or change attitudes like his. Banned for life.
You do realize it's like hundreds of Chinese people with fake identities right? They just reopen witha different name.
As someone who has worked in restaurants for 5+ years, when we close the kitchen at 10pm its because we have to do 2 hours of cleaning after the kitchen closes. Please dont beg us to fry up some dinner at 9:55pm. Working in restaurants is long and hard
It really is. People get mad at 11pm because we need to clean the kitchen
That doesn't warrant health hazards. People shouldn't work with this if they feel it's to hard. Many just wanna serve good food, but don't understand how much work that comes with this kinda work. It's not just glamorous making and servering of food, but also filthy work that MUST be done. Hire someone to do it if it is to much or CLOSE SHOP.
Why not change the closing time to 9:55? You get your 5 minutes and customers "won't" get disgruntled service?
@@j.e.k.6014 it doesn’t matter what the closing time is because customers will always come last minute and expect everything
@@kedanClipse "Expect everything", indeed. What privilege to see an open sign at a place that exchanges food for money, and try to partake in that transaction during stated hours of operation.
I used to tech work for refrigeration and there are some restaurants that i dont understand how they are open
Nice Work, Thank You.
That’s why cooking at home just any meal will add to good health
Ok
*Puts pizza in stove and takes a nap*
+Xav Man Still better!
hector ortiz I’ve never been a fan of eating out. So I’m always at my stove.
Supermarkets are just as bad as restaurants
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I think its safe to say that absolutely every restaurant has some things hiding in their closet, no matter what type of restaurant or how expensive it is. But Im fairly certain that in the majority of cases its rather minor things, not much different to everybody's kitchen at home. But this here is shocking even compared to the usual "bad of the bunch". It literally looks like there has NEVER been anything done towards cleaning or sanitation or food safety or whatever.
Honestly you’d be surprised how clean restaurants are, it’s the small mom and pop shops that are hit and miss. It’s what popularized franchises, consumers have a certain level of confidence knowing the cleanliness and quality before stepping inside. Chinese culture has deteriorated in the last 70 years, China would of never compromised their value for an extra buck but the CCP has destroyed all traditional Chinese values (which were more closer to Japanese/Korean values) and has instilled a “make money at all expenses” mindset in a lot of a Chinese thus making their businesses and products shoddy.
@@deleqtronica8733 This sounds like something a white person would say
Of course nothing was done towards cleaning or sanitation because they could care less and that's not their priority No.1 for being in business. Their ultimate goal is to maximize the profit no matter what!
im just posting here bc these replies are getting spicy and i want notifications, dont mind me
You must operate a filthy restaurant to insinuate that every restaurant has sanity problems. You just have to setup procedures to keep the food and your customers safe, it's not rocket science. Also you must have a filthy kitchen at home. My kitchen is spotless, I store food properly, I prepare food properly, and I clean up properly. It's not hard to do.
Alright I know the main point of this video is about the violations but I just want to take a moment to praise the cameraman for standing his ground 1:38
i work at mcdonalds. this is not normal at all yall. we are very clean and strict
While I'm not as seasoned of a restaurant veteran as others here (reaching my first full year as a waiter), even I can recognize that this wasn't just a lack of caring. It has to take pure hard work and effort to make a kitchen this unclean
Dammit, only 110 violations this time! The kitchen help has to try harder!
I work in a kitchen and that's why you need at least one day of the week to deeply clean everything. If you just "clean" you just need time to get something like that.
as someone who is a cook, and isn't just a waiter, you are VERY mistaken.
shits been going on forever. Orwell writes about it in Down and Out in Paris and London, as well as Anthony Bourdain in Kitchen Confidential.
literally I was a dish pit boy when i was 16 end of every single night was sanitize scrub all surfaces grills disinfect sinks sweep then mop and take all garbage and waste out. Not one violation. Americans are just lazy and wont clean.
This sickens me, I worked for a local Mexican restaurant and the were dragged under the bus by state health inspectors 6 years before I worked there, they found "chicken thawing in a bag on a table" the problem was the staff that didn't really understand English couldn't give them the exact time it was there, they also cleaned the floor and everything else in above a normal fashion but couldn't communicate that to the health inspectors so they wrote it up. They had 4 total violations, but health inspectors made it way bigger deal than what it was, it ended up in local papers, and people were scared that from what the health inspectors said "they could be leaving meat out forever and serving it, and not cleaning the kitchen."
like I said I worked there six years later, and the owner was still shook over that visit, he was gone, and he was the only one at the time there that spoke good English, I asked him about it and he said "That's why someone's always here now that speaks good English, doesn't matter if it's me or someone else you see how clean I am and how I keep up to code and If a health inspector comes in I need someone that can vouch for that".
It was accurate, he followed US health code to a T and always had. Just shocked me that a state health team would Damn him and let a place like this keep running.
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Damn
Sorry that happened to you guys
@@anthonylawrence2094 Lol I wasn't there when they got drug under by the state health inspectors, but like I said they made sure to contact the local paper and make it sounds way worse than what it really was. They really didn't break any codes, they just couldn't communicate that they had been doing everything correctly so they wrote it down anyway.
That's sickening
If Gordon Ramsey went here he’d probably get so mad he would kill somebody.
Are you really telling me that they got 110 violations and NONE, not a single one was their own fault??? That's ridiculous.
If you personally know food inspectors, you’ll understand that these findings are quite common. Maybe not this many violations; but the stories are still grotesque.
Not this bad...
Yeah the roaches were bad and that bathroom was utterly disgusting. But individual "violations" can be as trivial as a mop touching the floor when it is stored. 110 probably is more telling of the inspector then it is the restaurant.
I was expecting like at least 10 to 15 violations but that just crazy. I rather eat at McDonald’s to be honest.
I wonder if the China buffet I used to eat at in garden grove was also this dirty.
Yeah that is why is always try to go for the highest rated places when getting food
I had a boss who consistently forgot to order hand soap and/or hand towels for the store including bathrooms. (He was terrible at ordering in general) He also stole time, scheduled people for one-hour shifts, showed up late every day, promoted people who didn't do anything, and punished the people who did. On top of that his boss was worse and protected him. There is no way this Buffet place had 110 violations without a health inspector that was just as bad as these 2 winners.
This sounds like my situation at my job now.
@@ChrisMartin-ox2hl It was a gas station called Cumberland Farms. But, I don't think I ever worked at a job that actually followed their own policies and procedures.
You know how common this is!
Ha I had a boss like this too.
@@boogynights Yes, and this is exactly why I shared this. How can this country ever survive if corruption has spread all the way down to the lowest levels? After working there for 10 years I got fired and when I tried to fight it the labor department didn't care whatsoever. In fact, the guy put in charge of my wrongful termination hearing was the most miserable uninspired person I've ever met in my life. This is why I lost even before the hearing began. Looking at this story with the buffet, it sounds like they consistently turned a blind eye until someone wanted them removed. Either they had a plan to replace it with something specific or to lease it to the highest bidder.
Yes, shine the light...... Cameras on this suspicious
Coming from someone who used to work at a Chinese restaurant, be very careful I’ve worked for more than one and they’re cheap as hell and care more about saving money than they do about food and people safety. I’m not racist I love Chinese culture and foods but a lot of Chinese restaurant owners cut corners
I've worked in several food service positions at fast food places, grocery stores, diners and such and while there is certainly a wide range of cleanliness I found based on management and staff, but what they all had in common is a BIG cleaning shift just prior to inspections. They really should be random sometimes.
In my foodservice experience, inspections were never announced because they did not want a pre inspection cleaning frenzy.
Food safety inspector here and our inspections are unannounced if at all possible. The only time we need to make arrangements ahead of time are for facilities with concerns regarding security, or that have odd or inconsistent hours.
my job is pretty clean when handling food(although the grill line floor gets rather dirty during our rush). one thing that always makes me laugh is that whenever there's inspection or district managers coming, the rust on the ac vents is painted over.
They are random, the state inspection is random, usually a company pays it's OWN people to inspect, THOSE are scheduled where everyone cleans as you mentioned, but the state inspection will not announce themselves until they are standing in the door. So I get you, I wish there was way more state inspections maybe 2-3 times a month or more
@@JustOneEarth US? We would always be notified prior to inspections by our bosses and made to clean a bunch.
The worst things are usually the soda machines and tea dispensers, they are rarely cleaned properly and have alot of gunk build up. Also fryers and grills are bot cleaned properly very often, as anyone whose ever had to clean a grease trap before in their life knows, its insanely disgusting and dirty work, and most employees will 100% avoid it until they are forced to clean it.
@@mondo_burrito clearly, he wanted to type "not cleaned"
Can confirm. Worked in the cafeteria at my college all 4 years. I was even hired as a student manager. I never once cleaned the grease trap, and to my knowledge, the full time employees had a grease trap schedule that was set in stone. I've also seen what happens when the grease gets spilled. Not. Fun.
@@allenjunge4127 ruined many a week night of mine in HS, nothing like getting to stay late because someone spilled the grease trap inside and itd take multiple people cleaning it if we wanted to have it done before the break of dawn
yeah employees making under $10/hr should NEVER have to do that job lol not worth it. Used to have to clean the traps AND behind the grills\the floors when I worked at Mcdonald's for $5.45/hr... couldn't pay me less than $100/hr to do that now
The fructose laden poison being dispensed is much worse than anything on the machine. Stop using them altogether. Your body and mind will thank you.
The food is probably bussin
“What in the world is going on here?”
That’s an understatement
i’ve worked in a kitchen environment since i was 15, the health inspectors show up randomly 2 times a year to each store, to pass an inspection and sometime within the next 6 or so months they come back and check again how have you not cleaned your kitchen in that amount of time to have racked up 110 violations look i’m gonna be honest with these industrialized kitchens it’s hard to maintain 100% clean all the time so sometimes things slip but i’ve never even gotten a violation on a health inspection to get 110…. you literally have to be doing NOTHING but making food and leaving at the end of the night, that’s actually disgusting asf man.
Feels like they did an active effort to make It dirtier instead of simply doing no effort to clean It.
As for the inspetor, I doubt Jr even had to make that effort you mentioned to rack the numbers they did this for him
Violations can happen and an inspector can also be wrong. We had a few tea leaves on the floor and the inspector came and said they were mice droppings. 110 violation is too much. We get a score that must be posted outside and almost no restaurant gets a 100 perfect score 100% of the time.
This is an old video. They only got 103 violations on their most recent inspection
@@kevindube7096 lmao😂☠️
Let's be honest, most places slack off and do heavy duty cleaning like a week or so before they get the heads up they might get inspected
0:45 The reporter tells the guy there's a bin of steak on the floor and if he could move it. The guy proceeds to pick up the bin that's probably dirty and contaminated on the bottom and places it on a food preparation surface. He also dragged the bottom of the bin on the cutting board. As Gordon Ramsey would say "SHUT IT DOWN".
Underrated
Or John taffer
Super gross!
@@jimmysalcedo7910 Actually yeah it would be more of Taffer, he trademarked the term for use in his show.
After seeing this scene, I can confirm that this is not a well-established and professional restaurant that has proper standards. And people should stop going to eat at their place to stop them from continuing their dirty business and feed dirty things to more people.
And you know what? Their food's probably pretty damn good.
Watching bar rescue and Chef Ramsey I’m not eating out at all
Im a restaurant manager and i can honestly say I've never seen a kitchen that disgusting. Most health departments would have a meltdown over that kind of food safety neglect. However, if they have had a follow up inspection and were allowed to open back up, it's safe to say that the kitchen is suitable... For now 🙄
I worked at cafes in NYC that only served drinks, pastries, and sandwiches and we couldn’t even get away with crushed coffee beans on the floor near the espresso machine. (The inspector said that it COULD be rat droppings). I have no idea how a kitchen could get that filthy in the first place, let alone how they could be allowed to reopen. The bathroom alone makes me want to throw up! How can the workers even stand it?
U never saw Gordon Ramsey episode 😂
Meltdown is a under exaggeration, they flip if you're even close to 10 violations.
And who wants to guess when it will no longer be safe?
No thank you I think I will pass🤬
@D.G ok incel
This news caster is having the time of his life, you can tell he loves his job
I'd add that for the sake of justice he wants to harass the owner and staff. Heck I would. Pigs.
Man woke up smiling knowin he’s about to expose some fools today
I was a commercial property mgr in the sf bay area for many years. Our chinese restaurant tenants were notorious for numerous health inspection violations. Many chinese restaurant owners learned their unhealthy habits back home in China. Unfortinately, this is the U.S. and our local health standards are much stricter (ie: you cannot carve up the dead chicken or fish on a home depot bucket in back alley... totally disgusting & I saw it many times 😂😂).
So why does the fried rice always taste better in Chinatown?
The people that eat at Chinese buffets don't look like they care about violations or anything at all.
I worked in a kitchen and the worst thing I discovered was maggots under a giant cutting board that was apparently never moved. The place was mostly clean aside from that, and it hasn't been a problem since I found it that first time, because nobody knew you even could move it.
Ugh, I'm sick
They kept the maggots for cleaning wounds is all. Nbd.
Not sure where the other reply went asking how nobody knew, but no, it didn't smell, it was a pretty open area and well ventilated. It was an upscale supermarket kitchen, specifically the pizza station, and the cutting board looked like it was an entire surface on its own, there was a cutout in the wall and the cutting board occupied the entire space and was custom fit for that spot and even overhanged it a bit so it looked more like a table top than a cutting board, it's very easy to think it's a table or surface that can't be removed. What caused them was cornmeal used to dust the pizza getting into the tiniest cracks around the edges of the cutting board, and water leaking into those cracks when we'd clean it. I felt bad for the night manager who had to help me clean it, I was closing the kitchen alone when I discovered it and needed help since that cutting board is too big for one person to handle. It wasn't so horrible for me (but still gross obviously) because I've owned plenty of reptiles in my lifetime, and with reptiles comes feeder bugs of various kinds, so I'm sort of used to handling squirmy things that I'd much rather not handle. It does sort of speak of the incompetence of the previous kitchen manager though who left shortly after I got there, even if it was hard to notice you can remove that board. I discovered that it could be moved within the first week of being moved into that position, and she and her staff had been in there for years.
Did you throw the chopping board out?
@@queenmisanthrope As I said in my reply, it's custom made for that spot and huge, so no. I would have, but not my decision to make. Still, we sanitized the hell out of it with so many chemicals and so much scrubbing that it was probably cleaner than when it was new.
I'm a health inspector. I've had my fair share of "problem child" restaurants, and this is like all of them combined into one. There's this thing called active managerial control, and it's clear they don't have that at all.
Also, employee morale and the overall work environment have a direct effect on the practices and cleanliness of a restaurant. The more toxic a job, the less employees are going to care. Managers and owners, do you part. Set an example. Care about your employees, your customers, and your business. Otherwise, you can end up like this place and become a threat to public health.
Some of these employees are fresh off the plane from Asia from where they have been working in those conditions
@@eriq54321you've never worked in an american kitchen or been to asia LOL
So how do we call you guys because I know a restaurant that does this...???
I was a server in a high scale sushi place all the workers in the back were Mexicans.
Never the owners should not be allowed to own a restaurant in the United States ever again any restaurants or food service they had their chance ………… and just think this probably goes on everywhere in America , turn a blind eye as they laugh stupid Americans , haa haaa all the way to the bank 😢
I would expect nothing less from a buffet in a strip mall.
The dinning area looks so clean. It’s scary bc u would think the front would be dingy
This is honestly embarrassing, as someone who works/runs a restaurant, it would nvr fly. Whats the point of health inspections if places like this are allowed to stay open?????? FOR REAL
Like everything else, follow the money.
Foreigners get to do whatever they like in their business dealings in America. Terrible, terrible situation!
@@Soul_Education that's racist
florida
@@lucky9293 that attitude is why their afraid to shut these places down
I “worked” in a family run takeout restaurant when I was 16. They used the same utensils to handle raw meat as they did to plate the food. They also wanted to pay me cash under minimum wage 🙃 when my dad found out he told me to ghost them and find a real job, so I did. Later on found out that he considered calling the health department and the DOL about it
This is why im so thankful we Pakistani's (and some other Muslims) usually never work in restaurant unles its their own. We even would rather teach the elderly how to make sweaters than taking food jobs.
My friend applied to a sushi restaurant and they tried paying her cash under the table as well, $25 for 4 hours of labor
Nobody cares Annie.
@@Kr4j I care
@@Kr4j I care
'110' sounds like an inspection code or something rather than an actual amount
I'm now worried about the number of times I eat out
Let's be honest, every town's Chinese buffet has probably been shut down due to a health violation at some point.
Food is still bomb 🤷♂️
Yep , I wouldn't eat at one.
Food is good, tables are clean, I don’t care what the kitchen looks like
yeah but not for 110 violations 😂
Dunno if thats a US thing or not, but the chinese buffets in Ireland and UK all seem fine. Probably down to stricter regulation i suppose
There should never be a reason why a restaurant is in such bad condition and is allowed to remain open to make necessary corrections. That place should have been shut down immediately.
Different culture that doesn't consider cleanliness necessary.
@@toomanyhobbies2011 They’re operating in America. We have standards here. Either fix it or be shut down.
I’m a health inspector for restaurants. Sometimes, it’s almost impossible to shut a restaurant down due to political intervention. It’s not right, but it happens. I’ve seen it first hand. Getting a motel shut down is even more difficult. Don’t ask me how I know.
@@toomanyhobbies2011 You do know Chinese are one of the cleanliness people alive. Just look at the French or Americans 🤢
@@toomanyhobbies2011 your statement is definitely true...it's the culture and bad habits they are used to!!!
You should just observe their street food preparations in their Country...awful.
I need to take a look again at the channel name to make sure this isn't The Onion
Really REALLY sad thing is that here in Louisiana they wouldn't even have sighted them!
Oh, they may have written them up about the bathroom, and just given them time to repair it.
I worked at a Quiznos and the owners never wanted to fix anything. Our coolers broke down so the food kept going bad. There were bugs. It’s disgusting. You never know what kind of stuff goes on behind closed doors in restaurants
terrible but True...
And Quiznos aren’t around anymore. Incompetent management must have been a theme for that chain
Yeah
I hope you reported them.
Quiznos are all franchises.
This is very common in many Asian restaurants, some even serve fish caught in local ponds.