Health inspectors, what are the most vile conditions you've ever seen in a restaurant?
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Insight from a former pestcontrol tech: if you see 1 pest control truck in front of a restaurant during normal business hours, that's generally a good sign and everything is probably fine; they're either there to do routine upkeep or they're on a lunch break. If you see a small *fleet* of pest control trucks outside a building in the middle of the night, thaaaat is a cleanout; usually a "health inspector gave them 24 hours to get the issue under control or face shutdown" situation.
Thank you. The restaurant I work at had a Bug Bomb (as I call it) around 24 of this very post
For clarification of mop sink is exactly what it sounds like.
It's a large sink set at ground level so you can fill your mop buckets and clean out your mops.
Kind of looks like the bottom of a shower cubicle.
To also add as a longtime cleaner, these sinks are usually metal basins, but most older establishments use tiled or concrete sinks.. so porous surface, perfect place for bacteria that usually isn't cleaned often and they stored tripe in that.. good.. god.
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"I hope not..."
Oh sweet summer child...
That man 100% fucked a tub of tuna.
Yeah, poor lad... He's in for a rude awakening. 😰
I am SO happy my favorite asian food place has a pretty visible kitchen, like the 'door' is just some small cloth so you can see inside and it's pretty clean which won't be taken for granted
Sounds like the place here. No funny business is going to be going on there
Where I live in the uk most takeaway places have the kitchen open right behind the counter, I like watching them make my food and it is always clean
A mop sink in my experience is a sink looking thing on the floor that you use to wring out a mop into or dump the mop bucket (where you put the water used for mopping) in.
So basically fish was soaking in something that probably recently had water in it that was full of whatever they’d mopped up on the floor.
Story 3...Yeah, I can guarantee it's literal.
I worked at a local italian restaurant. Our fake plants were covered in dust, and had a huge broken spider egg sack underneath. One time, our dish washing sponges had maggits in them. There were always bugs around, even in the fall and winter. At my new place, a gas station kitchen (suprisingly clean), there were ants next to the food prep table. Luckily they actually called an exterminator, unlike the italian place.
My friend worked at subway, and the health inspector came in one day. He found rotten food in the drive through, and told them to throw it out. After he left, the manager told the employees he was wrong and not to throw it out. They also let me in the back even though i dont work there. I offered to do dishes, but they said no
All employees including management if you used the restrooms please 🥺 washed your hands 👏. That's so nasty 😮.
I've seen customers walk out of the restroom after taking a dump without even touching the sink.
Some people are just nasty.
The mop sink in a restaurant or even store is usually a small basin on the FLOOR surrounded by chemical bottles and dirty mops and buckets because that’s where you would store all your cleaning products AWAY from the food! 🤢 super nasty
Not a health inspector, but
We had a Chinese buffet shut down once for flies. Basically restaurant attendees had complained about flys in the room and at the ceiling. Health inspector found flies, roaches and eggs in their food.
Shut it down for cleaning.
Upon returning, the inspector was doing their rounds to give them the OK to open back up when he found a dead rat behind and under the grill.
They got shut down, again.
Later on when open, they had a water leak in their roof that was staining tiles and dripping to the tile below.
Inspector shut them down a third time to fix the roof.
Once fixed, they passed and were reopened yet again.
Now, inspectors (like OSHA) have roughly a year to return for an unannounced visit. Something like seven months later he returns and is inspecting. Everything looks good and all in order.
So he tests their food. He did this because of the odd smells of some of their meat and the weird way it looked. Just wanted to be sure it was beef or pulled pork or whatever.
Dog meat.
It was dog meat.
Where in the world they got it idk but they were serving us dog meat.
Anyway I still eat there 🤷🏻♂️
Thank you so much for the motivation to make my own food at home 😅
For the longest time my family had a selection of specific restaurants in the area where they were the only ones anyone would go to. This was because my grandpa owned a heating and plumbing company, and so he knew which restaurants had good hygiene from working for them. Unfortunately most of them are gone now or changed owners, of course, since this was 30+ years ago
A lot of these stories sound like they come straight from an episode of Kitchen Nightmares. Gordon Ramsay needs to visit these places.
Again, not an inspector but I worked at the corner store in my town, serving ice cream. I’d use gloves and all that but there was one thing I refused to do. Fun fact about me but I’m insanely sensitive to chemicals. I tend to get chemical burns and it hurts like hell. We were supposed to frequently clean one of the machines with bleach but if I were to do that there’d be blood on the machine. My bitch of a coworker got mad at me for this saying the health inspector would write us up for it. I showed her the scars on my hand that are from chemical burns, specifically from harsh cleaners like bleach since I did cleaning as part of my previous job. Plus our boss specified that I use boiled water instead of bleach since she knew how bad these burns got.
Oh my, I can't imagine how much pain that is. I don't have this level of sensibility and already get anguish from dealing with cleaning products.
Tell me, cloves don't help your case?
I started to use disposable gloves (the last in ones didn't are trash) to do cleaning and helped me great.
They apparently had never heard of ice-cream machine cleaning solution. 🙄 This also means that there would have been bleach residue in the machine. Yum. Sorry you had to go through that.
Isn’t it lovely that recent health inspections are on the state website?
I work in a restaurant kitchen. My boss has pest control just in case. We clean throughout the day and do normal closing procedures. It's a small business with cleaner kitchen than some chains.
literally i've stopped caring. i don't care anymore i just need my food. maybe i will get a parasite from it but goddamn if im gonna stop going to the questionable italian place near me.
I was a customer in this story. It was around Christmas time, and it's been tradition to go see the lights with family every year (not so much now that grandparents are sicker) and then grab an ice cream from Dairy Queen on the way home. Well this particular year, I had a nasty panic attack in the car prior. When we went into the DQ, I was still feeling nauseous and tired, so all I wanted was a salad. My salad came, and I was relieved that I could finally get a little food in me, but before I even put my fork in, I noticed the gleam of metal...there was a paperclip in the salad. A paperclip. I don't know how. At the time, I was so exhausted mentally and physically that I wanted to just take it out and eat the salad anyway, but my mama bear wasn't about to let it go, so she had the salad remade. She also swore she saw an employee eating out of a person's drive-thru order before passing it to them...I don't recall us ever returning to that DQ after that.
I worked in the foodcourt at the downtown mall when i was a kid. Because of the building being built literally 100yrs ago The walls of the building were invested with rat nests and there was no feasible way to get rid of them because of the way the building was built. When it was converted into a mall and a foodcourt put in the rats got huge. I mean the size of a particulary fat housecat. And they were bold. You could occasionally see them scamper about during the day and there'd be customer conplaints. But at night they swarmed. Im talking hundreds of rats while youre trying to do closing. I left after my first paycheck out of disgust. I couldnt serve customers food i know probably made a good many people sick.
A mop sink is where you pour the dirty mop water 💦 into the sink , and yes that's is beyond gross 😮. I wouldn't eat in that restaurant ever 🚫🥴 .
Did an inspection in a Kitchen once. One look was enough to know the situation was dire.
One step into the kitchen, one of the workers takes a giant salad tray and just pours it on the ground in front of us - almost at us. I was on the verge of laughter when the head of the inspection just started yelling his butt off at this worker.
The kitchen was closed that day.
Not a health inspector, but I thought I'd share some experiences.
I work at a candy store that carries bulk candy. Every bin of candy has its own scoop, and for the most part those scoops are washed once a week at best. Hundreds of people come in every day, all touching a handle that everyone else touched for possibly 6 days before them, including gross kids. I asked my supervisor if we could wash them every day, but she told me it wasn't worth the time it would take. Gross.
Another issue with the bulk candy is that we have the biggest mice issue. For a while we were losing $500 of product a day from mice getting to it. Eventually the higher-ups decided that instead of fixing the mice issue, they could just stop throwing out the bulk candy they get into. Sometimes I walk into the store to see chewed up malt balls on the floor, chocolate macaroons with bite marks, and worst of all, half eaten slowpokes still in the bin. But I'm not allowed to do anything about it anymore. I might get fired for throwing the bin out, and with this job market and rental market I really can't afford to lose my job even if it only pays slightly above minimum wage. So instead, if a customer asks about bulk, I tell them it's popular but redirect them to sealed and packaged goods. I feel awful for it.
If there's anything you take from this, please for the love of God don't buy bulk food in bins. You're better off just getting something in a sealed package.
Great narration....I got very nauseous 😸... I don't think I ever want to eat out 😸
Took me a second listen to realize it was “Racetrack or Sheetz” in story 10 😂
story 12: Ah yes, good ol' small town corruption.
Just to make you feel better, I'll let you know that the Starbucks I work at is extremely tight on cleaning procedures. We're required to wash our hands pretty much all the time, and every surface gets cleaned not once, not twice, not even three times, but many times throughout the day. You ain't getting sick from my place LOL
I'm not too surprised the roach soup was actually good. After all, bugs is shrimps; most bugs don't taste that bad. Not too different from a lobster bisque, all things considered, except lobster is cleaned before being cooked. Flies taste terrible, though, just sour and off-putting. I've heard roach can taste pretty bad too tbh but I guess that guy enjoyed it!
Man I’m trying to get a school job, and it just so happens that most of them are in the fast food industry. I am now second guessing this.
Hugo about to come in here and yap about bobs burgers
Why did i think it was okay to listen to this while eating...
Yeah, man American Pied the tuna salad.
For the story about chef's spitting into the inspector's food, the inspector is how you don't get surprised protein or a green mass growing in your stomach, I'm pretty sure the owners and managers would give a single care if they had to eat in their own restraunt, but no, they're going to get 5 star meals using the billions of dollars we gave them for mold infested, crappy food.
Watching this is logic making me rethink about what I'm eating, or else is thinking the same thing?
Not health staff
But worked a few years as a kitchen lead. One restaurant I worked at would hire anyone that walked in. Not the sharpest tools came through.
Not once
Not twice
But a few times I had to stop people from mixing the bleach and the delimer in a mop bucket.
(The delimer we used was the neon yellow crap that had ammonium sulfate crammed in
These idiots where close to making low yield mustard gas every night.
Near the end of my time there I hid the delimer if I knew I had one of them on my staff that night.
This is why when I feel well I try to recreate my favorite fast food at home.
Every single one of these is just 🤮☠️
I worked at a hotel to make the breakfast my coworker wants to use parchment paper on everything because it looks sanatary, then he uses his mouth to fold the parchment paper.
I tell him thats not sanatary and he responds "shut the fuck up"
Reuses the eggs from yesturday in the same pan for the new eggs, eventually the eggs started looking a strange color and tasting like school glue.
So i tell him we should start using a seperate pan for the leftover eggs.
couple days go by and he does use a seperate pan, but one day i noticed the old egg pan was almost empty so he grabs it and pours it on top of the new eggs, i asked him if those are the old eggs, he says "dont question me (insert my name here)!"
Next day i threw out the leftover eggs.
He asks me where the eggs are from yesturday and i tell him i threw it out because we havent been keeping them seperate, he tells me im wasting food and that i need to learn to respect him and that im a shit person.
I use a spatula to mix the gravy as it warms up, i place the spoon near the sink just in reach so i can reuse it to mix the gravy again.
I dont clean it between uses but i wash the spatula after every batch of gravy is done, about 15 mins.
My coworker uses a seperate spatula and rinses it between every use, wich il grant is probably slightly better, but when he puts the spatula away he just rinses it as well and eventually some black substance starts growing on it.
I point this out to him and he respinds that it wouldnt be happening if i rinsed it between each use.
Used a metal spatula to get the hash browns off the pans, wanted to clean it but he was using the sink so i placed it down,
I come back later and needed the spatula, it was back on the shelf where all the clean stuff was, i grabbed it and it was unclean, i tell him he should clean stuff before putting things away, and he tells me that i should put things away when im done with them ignoring what i said.
We kept outting too much bread in the dbresd case and it kept getting mouldy because people dont eat enough of it.
I tell him this is a health problem and that we should putless bread out there, he tells me to not tell him what to do.
After weeks we keep getting mold in the bread and i keep telling him about it and nothing changes.
So i start going out to take half of it back out and put half in the fridge, he tells me im a shit person and i shouldnt be undoing his shit, and that im filling up space in the fridge.
Mold problem solved tho.
Havent had any in a month.
Similar problem with the waffles happen that i wont bring up.
Demands i respect him,
Tells me i need to respect elders (hes an elder)
Tells me he doesnt need to listen to anything i say because hes older.
Threatens that he will knock me out.
says my disrespecting days are over.
I have a stutter so i cant always say excuse me when walking passed him.
One time i couldnt and bumped into him.
He demands that i learn manners and that i should respect him.
I get a bit upset and tell him i cant always do that because i have a stutter, he just doubkes down and says i need to learn manners and respect, i yell at him that i have a stutter and that he needs to stop being an asshole.
Hour later i apologise to him for yelling at him because i realised hemay have just not known and doubled down because of the heat of the monent.
I say "im sorry for yelling at you earlier"
He responds "thats fine, just learn manners next time" wich just made me upset again but i didnt say anything.
Next day he has a friend with him visiting, i walk out and manage to say excuse me, and his friend goes "ya its not that hard is it"
Hes always telling the newest workers how im messed up and the things he sees as wrong.
We disagree on anything and it has to go his way or he calls me a shit person and that i just want to disagree with him.
Whenever i respond to him wich is barely, he tells me i want the last word, i tell him that he wants the only word, and he says "shut the fuck up".
Constantly pushes things that we disagree on.
Tells me i should do things a certian way even if it has no impact on his job, and the moment i say no he forces his way onto my job, and wont stop, and makes it my fault that he has to do more work to "fix" the things i do.
This im not sure about but we agreed from the start of when i started training him that we will split tips between each other equally.
First time he gets tips i notice and he splits it with me.
We rarely get tips but ive always split my tips with him and i lost count of how many.
I noticed now that he has never split his tips with me ever sense that first time.
sometimes he is thanking people and 2 times seen him put something in his pocket after.
So he was probably keeping the tips to himself. This is months later.
Boss got involved to solve our disagreements about the job, boss basicly made things go the bosses way, wich is fair, but then he just finds new and smaller things to complain about.
Wether we should leave a napkin on the yogurt machine trays.
And me putting the mop bucket the wrong way arround when i put it away, then calls me a shit person when i dont put it away his way but the way we always have been.
Last day we worked together he wanted to complain about a single cup left on the table with the coffee that i leave out for people to put trash in, because the trash can isnt over there.
He knows thats why i put it there, it wasnt a big issue so i was willing to not leave one there, but he never answers when i ask if i should.
He tells me that i need to throw my trash away and that he expects to pick up after the visitors but not a coworker, he sais this out loud and in front of visitors, i give up and just say that i dont care anymore, if i do it your way you will just find something new to complain about, and that you are free to complain.
He responded with a big grin on his face "i will complain, i like pissing you off"
At this point i snap from all the stress he given me for months and did something i know i shouldnt have done, i grab a towel from the sink im right next to and hit his arm with it, he then proceeded to chase me out of the kitchen, he goes back to the kitchen and i turn arround to look at him and he chases me again, idk if he had a knife or not because i was still upset, he ended up being fired and they told me he will be gone for a long long time.
Becausei hit a coworker they transfered me to a diferent position in the company where i dont interact with people.
Everyone that's worked with him says they are unimpressed by him and that he is difficult to work with, and that you can barely tell him anything.
10:10 he just has a good gaming chair
A mop sink is where you pour out the dirty mop water after mopping the floor, it gets used every single day, or at least it should be.
Sometime ago, a La Mornita Mexican restaurant would take old salsa sitting on tables and would pour it back into the big pot of salsa. 😫😷
Whelp. Watching this right before when I planned to go to bed was a mistake. I'm not getting any sleep anytime soon after hearing some of those stories. Fortunately, I don't have to do anything in the morning.
I can't stand it if my hands are dirty or say if I'm handling raw meat I always wash hands before touching or doing anything else after that.
So I have a friend who's a health inspector, he told us about how they had found the owner, shitting in a bucket in the garage where his food truck was, and also pee. Never eating a hotdog again
Once you have worked in a restaurant, you will either a) never eat in a restaurant again, or b) eat anything. I have worked in five restaurants, and they were all filthy. Restaurant kitchens are horror shows. If the parts they let you see are dirty, imagine how filthy the parts they don't let you see are. I just try to continue fooling myself that grocery stores are any better.
Like can they not shut a restaurant down if they see them pulling the garbage bags out of the dumpster to bring bag in to serve?
Not health inspector, propane driver here. Each time I have to inspect or relite equipment, i hate going behind the fryers and grills, they are nasty, it never gets cleaned and feels like a fat layer of fat. I found anything qnd everything behind there, anything from burger that is over 6 months old to used condoms.
So cockroaches have a meaty flavor?!
I can't dare to eat roaches or think of them as something eatable, but I advocate for mealworm in the kitchen, it remembers me off 🥜
so don't eat popeyes chicken then, noted
Worked at a resturant and the first time i was on the trash run i got to the dumpster and the smell of old rotting chicken nearly threw me off my feet it was in the middle of summer
Ehhhh, that's not always true, having worked for a specific fast food chain (claims they are the king of flame grilled burgers) they don't run as tight a ship as the public thinks... the store in a town over got hit by a tornado in 2019 and when they fixed it up and reopened it they screwed up the hvac system pressures (return and make up air where set wrong for the size of store and such) and so we had black mold literally growing out of the ceiling vents like moss... the franchise knew about it and county health knew about it and nothing was done for almost a year so it just kept getting worse. They don't care as much as they make the public think they do... edit to add- franchises hold all liability for their chain of whatever corporate fast food name they are using, the only thing the primary corporate can do is revoke the license for the franchise to use their name and make their products.
I've worked in several kitchens but this newest one is bad. We're basically cleaning it up from the previous crew who didn't give a damn from ten years ago! It's now much better but damn, do better people
Kind of unrelated I think? But this reminds me of one time when I got a burger as usual from my local (VERY understaffed, like 2-3 people on shift at a time if that) Burger King, ate my usual meal (whopper with mayonnaise only, fries, chocolate milkshake) and then proceeded to only throw up the burger-- specifically, if I recall correctly, the meat. Thankfully I didn't end up any sicker (no food poisoning or anything), so my body must have gotten ahead of it, but seeing as that place was already super questionable? I haven't eaten Burger King since. I remember at least one of the ladies (I think she was the shift manager or was in some kind of leadership role) being super nice, so nothing against her, but that place in particular was just... doomed from the start, practically. With that few workers, they just had to be cutting corners. I'm surprised they're still open today, honestly. Maybe they're doing better, but I still don't think I'm ready to try eating there again. It just... to me, if my body gets rid of one specific thing after I eat, then that's a red flag that something was wrong. I'm sure most Burger Kings aren't as bad, but it just kinda throws you off, you know?
I rebember when I was little that I went to a restaurant toilet and I saw how a cook went out the toilet and didn’t wash his hands. I wasn’t going to eat there anyway but for sure I will never will.
Its really bad when mechanics garages are cleaner then restaurants ,Im always surprised when I go into dealerships and see how cleaner they are (Chevys).😊
personally, If It was a tub of ice cream at home I would still eat it, I dont care. Its my blood and its fine with me.
Story 3 the guy was pounding the tuna
Story 14… oh
I worked at a big chain Tex-Mex restaurant for a couple years right before Covid. Right before all the shut downs started, I was asked to clean the beer cooler, which had never been cleaned. It was CAKED in mold. I ended up breathing in mold spores and had mold essentially growing in my lungs from what my doctor had said. It was insane. Then Covid hits and I got sick a few times bc 'essential worker' apparently included us.
Same place also had mold growing in the ice machine and ice bin under the drink machine. They clean out the ice bin, put bleach down, put a TRASHBAG over the bleach, and fill with more ice. Manager who did this then proceeds to scrape mold off the drink machine OVER the fresh bleach ice. Safe to say, I don't like ice in my drinks anymore.
Kinda miss the rest of the job tho 🥲 Working QA was actually a great position there
It feels illegal to be this early
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Taco bell with no AC is normal, why did that health inspector say that was a bad thing?
number 9 semen in tuna
You know, I at least appreciate that you don't use an AI voice. Unless you are and I am getting absolutely tricked but I doubt it.
That dude who shared the tuna story about subway, that wasn't Their Own Story lol. Nice try though. It was on the news quite a few years ago now, so basically a copy and paste of a news story. I will never understand people who write these stories and pretend like it's them when it's not.
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This whole episode is so nauseating and nasty 🤢 eating the dirt outside sounds better… worms are protein!🫣
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How about: Previous Incels who are now in happy/successful relationships. What caused you to change?
Maybe too touchy of a subject? 🤔
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