Restaurant kitchen horror stories

[IceAndFire**]

I used to work at Marie Callendar's. While there was some shit that went on, it wasn't nearly as bad as people make it out to be. The worst incident I heard of was this one d-bag working the kitchen and hawking a snot in a bowl of soup for some broad he didn't like. He was caught and fired though.

 

[teflondon1332]

I'm also in the food industry, and in the shittier places I worked for, food would get dropped on the floor consistently but it would still end up being used/served...It does happen and if you eat fast food chances are you've eaten something that's been dropped

 

[ramsiN]

i worked at hungry howies pizza & baskin robbins and shit was gross.

Hungry Howies :

nothing was stored properly, we were told to wash dishes in a bucket of dirty ass raggedy ass water all day long with bleach in it, no soap. the knives we used to cut our ingredients with were hardly ever clean thanks to the washing practice. pizza pans were cleaned by using a small amount of some ineffective disinfectant spray, also the machine used to make the dough was never cleaned not 1 day of my 5 months there same with the pans, we only used a disinfectant spray like on the pizza trays. gloves were never used to handle pre-cooked and cooked food. we had mice and roaches in the pizza parlor. toppings were left in the open uncovered all day long, to me thats nasty cuz there is dust and other shit in the air that settles. and again, thanks to our washing practices, God knows how much actual bleach would settle onto the toppings as we cut them, or even cut the pizza with the pizza cutter, or even removed the cooked bacon/wings with the tongs.

Baskin Robbins :

my main complaint here is only with the cleaning practices, which was the exact same as the pizza gig i had. tanks full of water and bleach, when you're done with your scooper you set it in the tray until the next person comes to be served. then you grabbed the scooper from the bleach water tray and dont even dry it off before you scooped the next scoop up for the customer.

my 2nd complaint, came because of me, but is the same case with others who were/are like how i was. this was my first job ever, and i was fat. so me being fat and out of shape, and being on my 1st job ever, i was pretty nervous and sweaty. so if you havnt guessed it yet, id sweat drips into the icecream containers as i went to scoop during those busy hours where i was running a round like a pig. the reason i bring this up, cuz most fat ppl sweat. so now i always check my food handlers sweat progress, if i see any sweat i aint ordering shit. if you're super fat, im still not ordering shit. lol i taught myself this disgusting lesson, but needless to say i quit the baskin robbins job on day 2. i didnt like how it was going.

 

[teflondon1332]

^^^ Head-band, bro

 

[shinchan**]

Anyone work at a restaurant? Anyone have any stories about how the cooks/ waiters messed with the food?

I'll go first. I used to work at Mc Donald's in San Francisco... Stonestown to be exact. Anyway, the preps used to take the hamburger buns and wipe the stove tops with them, and wipe the floors with them, before putting the sandwiches together. I couldn't believe it. Those stoves would be so shiny by the time they were finished. Working at Mc Donald's is so shitty, it makes you disgruntled


Any others?

hey! i plan to apply for work at mc donald san franciso stonetown any recommendation? tup?

 

[bandicoot]

Been working in food for 7 years and never seen anything disgusting like that. Shit's wayyyyyyy overstated.

 

[teflondon1332]

Been working in food for 7 years and never seen anything disgusting like that. Shit's wayyyyyyy overstated.

I also must say, as long as I've been in it, I haven't seen stuff as disgusting (i.e. bodily fluids being used, heating buns between butt-cheeks, spitting in food etc.)

 

[Bay Area]

hey! i plan to apply for work at mc donald san franciso stonetown any recommendation? tup?

Serious? Well I worked there 15 years ago so I'm sure shit has changed. But it used to get held up alot.

 

[Kevin Rudd]

I knew this guy, he was a jackass. He worked at Taco Del Mar and during his last few weeks there he jerked off into this emptied out relish jar as many times as he possibly could every day until on the last day he emptied it into the sour cream. I know it's true because he showed the half full jar to our group of friends and opened it up and tried to get this one kid that we would give a hard time to smell it. He kept shoving it his face. I would have stood up for the guy and decked him but I didn't want to chance getting any on me.

I hope that son a bitch gets whats coming to him, still to this day I have a hard time ordering mexican.

LOL what the fuck? There are some fucking sick people in this workd.

 

[BEER]

I don't buy 90% of these kinds of stories.

Most people want to keep their jobs, and if someone does something fucking gross, someone will get them fired in a hurry. No one wants to lose a job due to knowing and not saying anything.

The most consistently true stories are the ones where food is dropped and still used.

 

[DoctorTaco]

I've worked in the industry for ten years off and on and never seen anything gnarly. Most places the kitchen staff is too busy pranking or fucking with each other to mess with the customers food.

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

have any of you guys ever cleaned a grease trap? or even just smelled one?

 

[bootsy]

have any of you guys ever cleaned a grease trap? or even just smelled one?

yep and no.

 

[elzar]

i worked in a restaurant and no one did shit/

 

[Flemmy Stardust]

yep and no.

the smell is ungodly.

i dunno if it was broke or what, but the one they had at this pizzeria that me and my friends worked at had to be scooped out manually. they'd put it out in the back in some container, and it smelled like death.

me and my friend used to see who could stand near it the longest without throwing up.

 

[dirtypablo]

I don't buy 90% of these kinds of stories.

Most people want to keep their jobs, and if someone does something fucking gross, someone will get them fired in a hurry. No one wants to lose a job due to knowing and not saying anything.

The most consistently true stories are the ones where food is dropped and still used.

Agreed. I worked in kitchens for 6 years, and only once saw someone deliberately screw with someones food.. A cook sneezed on a hamburger that was for a manager he hated. A couple times something got dropped and still used- the one time I remember it happening it was a pizza at an italian restaurant, when the cook pulled it out of the oven it fell on the floor. The people had already been waiting like 30 minutes, so they just gave it to them. But even that was rare.

 

[Gus Fring]

Flem, that's hilarious.

 

[dirtypablo]

I've worked in the industry for ten years off and on and never seen anything gnarly. Most places the kitchen staff is too busy pranking or fucking with each other to mess with the customers food.

Once worked with a guy who would put toothpicks in the shredded lettuce containers, so when you reached in to grab a handful to put on plate, they would stab your hands.

 

[dirtypablo]

Lol, this thread made me remember this.. Once a new dishwasher started on a busy friday night at a restaurant I was working at, and being that he didnt know where things went and how everything worked, he got pretty far behind pretty quickly. A couple of the cooks would try and help him when they could, but he was being a dick about it to everyone. So one of the cooks took a couple big pots and put a bunch of pickle juice, cheese, hot sauce and sugar in them, then let them sit on the stove for an hour and then made him scrub them clean. He didnt work there long.

 

[teflondon1332]

have any of you guys ever cleaned a grease trap? or even just smelled one?

...I clean mine every day, so....it doesn't smell like death, no....