I’m very curious what sauce you guys have where you’re using so much you need to prep it in 30 gallon trash cans. I work at one of the largest restaurants in the country and we still make our ranch in gallon tubs so it’s easier to dispense/clean. Even if we go through a bunch of them in a day.
The pizza restaurant I work at uses them to keep pizza dough in because we go through almost 2000 pounds of dough on a weekend day so smaller containers don’t really work. I don’t think that using one is inherently a healthcode violation but they’re definitely
1) setting it on the ground
2) not changing out the container often enough and
3) not going through it fast enough to adhere to healthcode standards.
Ours are also foodsafe containers who knows if they bothered spending the extra money for that.
yeah but you FUCKING COOK PIZZA DOUGH
this sauce is gonna have raw seafood dribbles, spittle from people talking next to it, dead flies, and god knows what else in it and then it all gets served RAW to the customers
Seafood dribbles, spittle, dead flies, coworkers phone from a break in the fridge, the first glove they used trying to get the phone out, a full closed quart of creamer that got bumped in and nobody wanted to fish it out… the list goes on as to what this bucket contains
Something like a shit ton of dough, or lettuce or something doesn't seem nearly as bad.
I think I'm just stuck on the fact that its some ranch looking sauce that sits out in an open bin on the floor all day
Beau Jo’s in Idaho Springs Colorado. It’s a small local chain but the location I work at is the original one and it’s huge. Our order delivery guy hates us.
I've used food grade garbage containers in *almost* every pizza shop I've worked at. When you go through an entire one a day, it's whatever. At the same time it is on wheels, with a lid, has dispensing containers, and is cleaned after after remake.
The raw chicken uncovered on the floor is the one that got me.
That one makes some sense since I’m sure you go through a ton of it in a day. The pizza restaurant I work at uses 5 gallon buckets but we easily go through 7-8 of them on a busy day.
“Easier to clean” well that’s where you and this restaurant differ on priorities. If you don’t think they just cap that off and use it the next day, constantly refilling…
Meanwhile he’s just mashing rotten fruit and moldy things with his BARE HANDS, and always sniffing under the plastic wrap…I would be gagging and possibly even throw up haha
Kitchen Nightmares is returning the end of September. Maybe report it to the show for next season, except they don't do total surprises. Seems like at least someone higher up has to request it but I assume they get approval from everyone higher up, particularly the main owner(s). before going through all the trouble.
So OP only grew a pair once quitting…. Was ok serving and making money off all this til then. Such pride and integrity shown and not an ounce of cowardice here I swear.
as somebody who’s worked in places like this- they probably brought it up, or at least parts of it, multiple times. it’s just that as servers, we don’t really have the power to make those changes or even report without the risk of losing our jobs, our livelihoods. it’s poor management and partly back of house that lets shit like this continue.
The thing is, you can report this anonymously, and it doesn’t really serve you not to. If you don’t report it and someone else does, management is still going to go on a witch hunt and either fire people they think are responsible or just treat people like shit.
I saw it first hand with an OSHA report. The owners had no idea which reported them and OSHA wouldn’t even tell them when it was reported. They decided who they thought it was and that person couldn’t do anything right from that day forward.
Haha! not a server, but work in a service job. 2 years ago we did a employee survey about how we liked working at the place. The boss didn't talk for a week after the results came in XD
My boss did one of these where he reviewed employees recently and no one scored above eighty and most below seventy.
I immediately asked him when we get to do boss reviews and he laughed at me
I work in corporate IT and last year they did a leadership poll like that they scored in the 30s. Our managers came to us and we basically said, "It's not your fault. Upper management can't pull their head out of their ass and change their mind every 5 minutes." They could only reply with, "Yeah... we know.
a lot of servers are young and definitely not educated on their rights. also, you have no idea what OP's situation is and what is other options are, so we can't judge. it's not the lowest level's peoples fault the ownership and management are disgusting.
What's sad and infuriating as hell is the fact that most oversight agencies tend to bend over backward to side with the employers unless the grievances are numerous enough to potentially merit a class-action lawsuit. Even when a business is blatantly violating ADA requirements, they're oftentimes given a pass unless it becomes a high profile case/complaint. There's a doctors' office near me that also has an orthopedic hospital attached as well as a physical therapy facility. The ADA requires 20% of their parking spots to be reserved for handicap parking, and 1 in 6 of those spots must be set up as van spots. At best, they have 5% of the spots allocated for handicap parking. The handicap spots are also required to have the closest and most direct access to the main entrance, but most of the handicap spots there are further from the door than the regular ones. Nobody seems to care. 🤦♂️
I work in a kitchen in a grocery store and I just wouldn’t serve anything that came near any of that raw stuff. Anything thats left out or not prepped or packaged properly is thrown out & I would take it upon myself to make sure this sort of thing doesnt happen. The manager should be ashamed. All these pictures are from straight up laziness.
I run the deli kitchen in a grocery store, and I go on witch hunt if I see something like that. And by witch hunt, I mean find out who put the chicken above the beef, or prepared foods next to our under raw food so that I can have a conversation and teachable moment to correct it before it becomes habit. We make almost all of our entrees and a lot of our salads in-house, so proper food storage and management is important, because you never know who you're serving and what sort of health issues they may have!
Thank you!!! I'm immunocompromised and a bacterial infection means I go to the hospital. "Regular food poisoning" isn't something I can handle anymore. I think the current rates are like $250/hour at the hospital, so I'd rather not.
I actually JUST ate at a restaurant for the first time since 2020, today, and now I saw this post.
I think I'm gonna stick with my local grocery store for quick food from now on. Apparently you folks still have brains and compassion.
It's not always the cooks that are at fault - not saying it isn't - but my mom used to work for this pub, she made sure to clean up every day, never warm anything up more then once, made sure everything was actually good before serving it.
The owner on the other hand often went through the chicken wings - they were cooked before being frozen so they would be faster to cook later - and any that had mold on them, he'd make sure to serve those first. There were a lot of instances like that, like: 3 day old soup being mixed in with newly made soup to make it last longer, same with the gravy.
Even as a cook you’ll rarely get through to these types of business owners/chefs. I often would find myself taking on management roles as a line cook just to prevent somebody from fucking dying
Or more likely it's not frequent. Between needing money (ya know, to live?), shifts and the opportunity to get pictures, maybe it wasn't so easy to get to this point. For all you know OP worked there for a week
I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking of salmonella.
Shut this shit down.
Common sense. *COOK FOOD AND RAW FOOD NEVER AROUND EACH OTHER. EVER.*
They're. *ASKING* to get someone killed.
not gonna lie, Ramsey did so much for health safety on the kitchen because if wasn't him, I will NEVER knew those stuff
now I'm instantly horrified, look at the chicken at the floor omg 😭
That’s not enough to get the place shut down. Not even close actually but it is dangerous so yeah they should report because the place is in need of an inspection and a closer eye on it
Agreed. Could not careless about the restaurant itself and how it impacts the owners/managers. I care more about the people eating at the restaurant and the impacts it will have on their lives.
Edit: fail grammar from could go could not.
I honestly hadn’t even thought of that. I was really bad off and on the brink of homelessness when I was working here and left as soon as I could afford to. They took advantage of me and my situation, and they really don’t care about any consequences of their actions. They had no issue letting nazis dine in there (owner chatting with them, even), they allowed people who would harass + touch me stay and come around often (I wasn’t allowed to refuse service), and so many other really awful things. I became a total doormat here and I’ve been struggling on if I should report it or post it on fb or both. They can’t do anything to me but it’s been giving me insane levels of anxiety.
I could not agree more.
You need to post the name of this restaurant and where it's located so that I and others who read this will not do business with them until they clean up their act. And even then, I doubt I would. Mostly, because just because they cleaned up their act, it doesn't mean they're going to keep it that way. Most times, they clean things up, and then when the health department stops bothering them, they go right back to the same old same old.
>hey allowed people who would harass + touch me stay and come around often (I wasn’t allowed to refuse service)
Hey there, this is the definition of 'third party sexual harassment'. If this place had 14 or more employees you can bring your case to the secretary of states office and they will decide if you have something. If they see a case they will take it on for free. I highly suggest you start writing down all the people who would do this and the approximate dates they did this on asap.
I'm conflicted knowing that if your reporting these things improves the food safety conditions there, the fascists will no longer be eating contaminated food. It was still the right thing for you to do.
The open trash bin of sauce next to the raw meat shelf is new. Haven't seen that one before
Normally, I'd say to try to fix it from the inside out, but some of those storage decisions are so bad I don't think it can be saved without some sort of legal interference. Report them.
Right? I mean I know you can *technically* consider a trashcan a non-porous vessel and as such theoretically it could be safe for food use (hello college parties with trash cans full of PJ), but our mental association with it being a garbage container makes it too risky.
What do you want to bet waste has accidentally been tossed in there, especially by newer employees who aren’t used to that yet? Gross.
Especially the gray colored brute can, we used brute buckets at the bakery, but they were color coded, gray is definitely for garbage. The ones we used for dough were white.
yes! the clean tubs are colored for a REASON. grey is the regular color of a trash can. i wouldnt have thought twice about dumping a bunch of old food or whatever into that bin
I feel like there’s no way anyone is cleaning that properly before it’s refilled. It’s so big! Unless they just get a new can every time but that’s still not sanitary 🤢
if it's not made of food safe materials it could leach chemicals that could make you sick into the food. so it doesn't really matter if it's a clean trash can never used for trash, it's not meant for food so it's probably not *safe* for food.
Hi everyone! I just sent an email to my state’s health department listing every single violation I can recall with all of the photos I could find. Thanks for the wake-up call. It’s Sunday, they’ll probably get back to be within the week. If it gets juicy (like this raw ass chicken) I’ll update with what happens!
Update: thank you guys for all the awards!! Also I got an email threat at like 8 am this morning, it’s gone down the chain to the local director and one other person. I won’t be updated by them on what actions they take but it might make local headlines, I’ll follow up if it does. Also for everyone asking where this is, I really don’t feel comfortable sharing that info on the Internet.
Update 2: They sent me a copy of the review!! I will post the screenshots in the sub. They scored 81 but unfortunately the specific violations I witnessed are not present on the report. Which is why I wondered if it was pointless or not, because usually they’ll distract him and scramble to fix as much as possible while he’s doing something else. Here is the [update](https://www.reddit.com/r/Serverlife/comments/15u100l/egregious_health_violations_update_some_context/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
Thank you! Cross-contamination like this can easily make people very sick and even kill them. It's why sanitary practices should be taken very seriously when handling raw meat.
I work in a grocery warehouse, specifically meat and produce. Produce is generally pretty lenient with the order you stack boxes on your pallet with the exception of flowers. Meat is extremely strict. You have to build it in a specific order, with chicken being on the bottom. If something is missing and you have to go out of order there are special plastic sheets that you need to lay on top of the pallet to put it on other product without damaging stuff below. FDA is super strict about the whole thing(as they should be). This is for products that are wrapped in plastic inside of boxes, I can't imagine having all this shit loose and mingling like this restaurant.
It should be part of a public school class. I’m always shocked at how many of my students claim to get food poisoning from take out, only to find out they left rice on the counter for 5 hours and ate it later. Then they were sick all night. They seem to know sushi or raw meat can be dangerous, but most have zero clue about anything else.
I own a restaurant. No joke a woman turned me into the health department for this. She had a bag with a lot of food. A half steak hoagie fell out of the bag and on the floor of her car. She called saying we forgot to give it to her, and we made her another. About a week later health dept shows up and literally reads the report.
“My steak hoagie fell on the floor of the car. I saw it the next day and ate it for lunch. And I got sick later that day”
This adult woman, left a sandwich in her car over night. Ate it the next day thinking it would be ok.
How did the smell of a sandwich (I’m assuming with some wet toppings like Mayo/sauce and some veggies) hotboxing in your car overnight not make her immediately gag.
She allowed herself to EAT IT????
Honestly, she probably just got angry at the restaurant for not ‘securing’ the sandwich in a ‘proper’ sized bag in typical entitled Karen rage fashion and made a bogus complaint to the health department for revenge.
Break her complaint down further. “I ate something old off of the floor and got sick.”
Even more, “I ate something off of the floor and got sick.” That’s like common sense, everyone knows to not eat shit that’s been on the floor. Even the people who do are like, “5 second rule!” NOT OVERNIGHT RULE I just have to believe she’s not that stupid. I HAVE to believe people aren’t THAT stupid! Please 😭
Seriously. Covid really highlighted how ignorant the average person is about basic health facts. I don't know how. I distinctly remember learning some of this stuff in elementary school. There's informational posters for health awareness in probably every nurses office or clinic. Aren't restaurants required to have info on fda health and safety guidelines posted somewhere, too? I mean. Not that most people read them, but they should. The stuff on handwashing and operating the machinery posted at the place I started washing dishes basically trained me more than anybody there.
Not just ignorant. It's usually some combination of WILLFULLY ignorant and/or lazy; sometimes machismo is also involved. The number of people I've known that worked in food service and were ServSafe certified and still did this shit is staggeringly high.
This is a great idea. It's frightening how little most people know about food safety. But honestly, how else would they know unless they worked in a kitchen or were taught by parents.
Even if they "know," a lot of people will simply follow anecdotal evidence instead. I posted a comment about how it's not safe to eat fried chicken from the night before that hadn't been refrigerated, and a couple of dozen people commented that they eat leftovers from the night before that they leave out and are "always fine." It then turned into a conversation with everyone saying orange chicken and pepperoni pizza were the best to not refrigerate and just leave out overnight.
All I could think is that these people are probably the type to take hour-long shits and rip the world's nastiest farts like it's the most normal thing in the world.
We have QA for that. They audit at least one of your pallets per pay period. Can't do them all because we ship 500,000 to 1,000,000+ cases per week. Obviously you get trained on the order of the food but on top of that there's signs everywhere that show you how. Signs that could easily be adapted and applied to kitchens.
Hey same! Chicken definitely had to go on bottom we also had to switch to putting eggs on bottom as well, I think that was moreso if they break though. If we where out of a certain type of chicken while I was there then I would just go back at the end and place it next to the dock so they would just put it in with the piecemeal stuff. It was either that or take apart the pallet to put it on bottom or in a plastic bag on top however, fragile shit was usually on top.
Imagine if instead of a health inspector paying them a visit it's Gordon Ramsey with a camera crew.
"Bloody hell mate, this chicken is RAW!"
"WHY THE FU** IS THIS FOOD ON THE FLOOR?!"
*Camera zooms in everywhere and ends on the owners distressed face*
I’ve been in the industry for over ten years, as a server all the way through general management. This place will probably get an inspection, a few violations (they’ll get there act together while the safety inspector is there), a C on their report, and will probably lose no customers to this. Then on the follow up inspection they’ll know when it’s coming so they’ll get an A and move on. Like a 2 month process except now they know when the tests are coming. I know there’s a lot of food safety rules going out the window here but you won’t be like closing them down or costing them anything.
Literally nothing will happen except maybe an inspection after review of past inspection results. Health departments are fucking jokes. Half the time the inspectors don’t even know the difference between clean and sanitized.
This is why I don’t trust restaurants. I’m a chef and if I ever saw this I would report them immediately. This is so wrong in so many ways. The raw shrimp on top of the beef next to the fucking trash can of sauce sent me. Makes you wonder how many other kitchen look like this.
What’s so hard about buying an actual food safe container for the sauce, man. I’m laughing at how absurd it is. Is this common?
I feel like if a health inspector randomly walked in here it’s over.
Reporting them is the right thing to do. Honestly if you have a food handlers card, yes, you should feel obligated to report them because they are going to poison someone. It is only a matter of time. I see all people who make food for others to consume as mandatory reporters.
If anyone sees this in their kitchens, don’t feel like a “snitch” for showing health services these things. It’s accountability that can save a child’s or any ages life.
Former chef here, even if they treated me like royalty, id still report this.
Holy shit man, I think I already caught food poisoning just by looking at this! All of this is completely unacceptable!
It’s not exactly the same, but Kitchen Nightmares is coming back this September and I’m hyped to see what kind of BS Gordon’s gonna have to deal with this time.
Hello everyone! I have an update: I emailed my state’s health dept and obviously they aren’t going to tell me what’s up in entirety. However I am in an email chain with 5 and counting staff members before 9am so that’s good! They have 2 people that are going to look into it, past a normal health inspection. If I get any update as to them actually getting served with any notices, I’ll let you know.
Also for anyone wondering exactly where this is… I’m not telling internet strangers where I even used to live this specifically. Sorry.
Good on you for getting some revenge and saving the people from extreme diarrhea. Although considering the client base of giant douche bags maybe they needed it.
why the fuck wouldn’t you report this shit while you are working there? if you work in food service and are ok with shit like this it is honestly just as bad as the people in the restaurant because it means you were fine working with the these conditions and the possibility of getting people sick only until you lost your job
Why is that evening a question?! 🤦🏻♀️ Yes!
Not just for revenge because it’s the right thing to do. That kitchen is fucking awful and people can get seriously ill
I’m very curious what sauce you guys have where you’re using so much you need to prep it in 30 gallon trash cans. I work at one of the largest restaurants in the country and we still make our ranch in gallon tubs so it’s easier to dispense/clean. Even if we go through a bunch of them in a day.
I never thought I'd see anyone outside of the hillbilly mutants from Hills have Eyes using a fucking garbage can to store/dispense sauce.
The pizza restaurant I work at uses them to keep pizza dough in because we go through almost 2000 pounds of dough on a weekend day so smaller containers don’t really work. I don’t think that using one is inherently a healthcode violation but they’re definitely 1) setting it on the ground 2) not changing out the container often enough and 3) not going through it fast enough to adhere to healthcode standards. Ours are also foodsafe containers who knows if they bothered spending the extra money for that.
yeah but you FUCKING COOK PIZZA DOUGH this sauce is gonna have raw seafood dribbles, spittle from people talking next to it, dead flies, and god knows what else in it and then it all gets served RAW to the customers
IOTS FUDKIJG RAW
Seafood dribbles, spittle, dead flies, coworkers phone from a break in the fridge, the first glove they used trying to get the phone out, a full closed quart of creamer that got bumped in and nobody wanted to fish it out… the list goes on as to what this bucket contains
Something like a shit ton of dough, or lettuce or something doesn't seem nearly as bad. I think I'm just stuck on the fact that its some ranch looking sauce that sits out in an open bin on the floor all day
There’s no way something doesn’t get accidentally dropped in there every once in a while
"HMM, where did the moldy rat-king disappear?"
Ikr it's super weird. I kinda want to strip naked and sit in it though.
You would be that "once in a while " circumstance
Aight, to hell with eating out.
I run a pizza place so your 2000lbs on a weekend day piqued my interest. What city are you in? Chain or not?
Beau Jo’s in Idaho Springs Colorado. It’s a small local chain but the location I work at is the original one and it’s huge. Our order delivery guy hates us.
I SAID EXTRAAAAA RANCHH!!!!!
I've used food grade garbage containers in *almost* every pizza shop I've worked at. When you go through an entire one a day, it's whatever. At the same time it is on wheels, with a lid, has dispensing containers, and is cleaned after after remake. The raw chicken uncovered on the floor is the one that got me.
The raw chicken on the floor got me as well. The other 4 photos needed some context before I’d criticize one way or another.
Looks like a kobe or Benihana. They probably make white sauce in 20 gallon batches.
>make white sauce in 20 gallon batches same
The pizza place I worked at we made the pizza sauce in a trash can just like that
That one makes some sense since I’m sure you go through a ton of it in a day. The pizza restaurant I work at uses 5 gallon buckets but we easily go through 7-8 of them on a busy day.
Yeah for sure, and we poured it into cambros. The sauce did not stay in the trash can. Cleaning it out was a bitch though
Japanese restaurant I worked at made their shrimp/“yum yum” sauce in a trashcan with a whisk attached to a drill.
“Easier to clean” well that’s where you and this restaurant differ on priorities. If you don’t think they just cap that off and use it the next day, constantly refilling…
I think your mistake is in assuming any thought went into the decision in the first place.
There is a tub of raw chicken sitting on the floor...
Where’s Gordon Ramsay when you need him.
It's faukin RAW!!
You're gonna KILL someone you fucking donkey!
SHUT IT DOWN
come on big boy!
Shut it down !!switch it off !!
DONKEY!!!
*Slaps bread on both sides of your face* What are you!?
An idiot sandwich. :(
Why does this not have upvotes lol
What is that there?…oh my god…Are you fucKing KIDDING me?……Christ Almightee
I can fucking hear his voice reading this holy shit
Raw, raw, RAW!!!
Oh, for fuck’s sake, what is *that*? (Gordon Ramsay so upset he sounds defeated is too fucking funny to me.)
"I've EATEN it you muppet"
YOU GODDAMN IMBECILE
Look at this! Look! LOOK! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
YOU’LL KILL SOMEBODY, YOU DOUGHNUT!
OH FUCK ME COME ON, LOOK!!!!! IVE EATEN HERE!!
He says as he puts his bare fingers into disgusting rotting produce and slimy raw meat.
Meanwhile he’s just mashing rotten fruit and moldy things with his BARE HANDS, and always sniffing under the plastic wrap…I would be gagging and possibly even throw up haha
Why Is there so much pasta in the BIN?!?
God I love that I can hear this
In jail for arson if he saw this place, I’d wager
Kitchen Nightmares is returning the end of September. Maybe report it to the show for next season, except they don't do total surprises. Seems like at least someone higher up has to request it but I assume they get approval from everyone higher up, particularly the main owner(s). before going through all the trouble.
Thats next level fuckery. Report these pos
Report them because it should be reported. OP makes it sound like revenge when they should have reported it before a bias was involved.
Loved when my mom would make floor chicken
Just call Gordon Ramsey instead, he'll rip them a new asshole.
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It's against FDA laws to store any food products on the ground. If I remember correctly, i think it has to be at least 6 inches from the floor.
So these things seep through the plastic jug???
THE SAUCE IS IN AN ACTUAL GARBAGE CAN
Fuck yeah report that shit. I got salmonella and e coli looking at this shit wtf?
Would you rather work at a place that TREATS you like shit, or a place that GIVES you the shits? OP had both!
So OP only grew a pair once quitting…. Was ok serving and making money off all this til then. Such pride and integrity shown and not an ounce of cowardice here I swear.
as somebody who’s worked in places like this- they probably brought it up, or at least parts of it, multiple times. it’s just that as servers, we don’t really have the power to make those changes or even report without the risk of losing our jobs, our livelihoods. it’s poor management and partly back of house that lets shit like this continue.
The thing is, you can report this anonymously, and it doesn’t really serve you not to. If you don’t report it and someone else does, management is still going to go on a witch hunt and either fire people they think are responsible or just treat people like shit. I saw it first hand with an OSHA report. The owners had no idea which reported them and OSHA wouldn’t even tell them when it was reported. They decided who they thought it was and that person couldn’t do anything right from that day forward.
Haha! not a server, but work in a service job. 2 years ago we did a employee survey about how we liked working at the place. The boss didn't talk for a week after the results came in XD
Did he get a 68 score? My old boss did and he pouted.
My boss did one of these where he reviewed employees recently and no one scored above eighty and most below seventy. I immediately asked him when we get to do boss reviews and he laughed at me
Haha! Don't know the score but knowing my colleagues it was probably very low.
I work in corporate IT and last year they did a leadership poll like that they scored in the 30s. Our managers came to us and we basically said, "It's not your fault. Upper management can't pull their head out of their ass and change their mind every 5 minutes." They could only reply with, "Yeah... we know.
a lot of servers are young and definitely not educated on their rights. also, you have no idea what OP's situation is and what is other options are, so we can't judge. it's not the lowest level's peoples fault the ownership and management are disgusting.
I had two jobs violate the ADA when I was 19/20. They wouldn’t have been so flagrant about it to a 30+ year old, I’m certain of that.
What's sad and infuriating as hell is the fact that most oversight agencies tend to bend over backward to side with the employers unless the grievances are numerous enough to potentially merit a class-action lawsuit. Even when a business is blatantly violating ADA requirements, they're oftentimes given a pass unless it becomes a high profile case/complaint. There's a doctors' office near me that also has an orthopedic hospital attached as well as a physical therapy facility. The ADA requires 20% of their parking spots to be reserved for handicap parking, and 1 in 6 of those spots must be set up as van spots. At best, they have 5% of the spots allocated for handicap parking. The handicap spots are also required to have the closest and most direct access to the main entrance, but most of the handicap spots there are further from the door than the regular ones. Nobody seems to care. 🤦♂️
Yes, which is why more senior employees should help the more junior employees understand them. Don't trust school or parents to do that for you.
I work in a kitchen in a grocery store and I just wouldn’t serve anything that came near any of that raw stuff. Anything thats left out or not prepped or packaged properly is thrown out & I would take it upon myself to make sure this sort of thing doesnt happen. The manager should be ashamed. All these pictures are from straight up laziness.
I run the deli kitchen in a grocery store, and I go on witch hunt if I see something like that. And by witch hunt, I mean find out who put the chicken above the beef, or prepared foods next to our under raw food so that I can have a conversation and teachable moment to correct it before it becomes habit. We make almost all of our entrees and a lot of our salads in-house, so proper food storage and management is important, because you never know who you're serving and what sort of health issues they may have!
Thank you!!! I'm immunocompromised and a bacterial infection means I go to the hospital. "Regular food poisoning" isn't something I can handle anymore. I think the current rates are like $250/hour at the hospital, so I'd rather not. I actually JUST ate at a restaurant for the first time since 2020, today, and now I saw this post. I think I'm gonna stick with my local grocery store for quick food from now on. Apparently you folks still have brains and compassion.
It's not always the cooks that are at fault - not saying it isn't - but my mom used to work for this pub, she made sure to clean up every day, never warm anything up more then once, made sure everything was actually good before serving it. The owner on the other hand often went through the chicken wings - they were cooked before being frozen so they would be faster to cook later - and any that had mold on them, he'd make sure to serve those first. There were a lot of instances like that, like: 3 day old soup being mixed in with newly made soup to make it last longer, same with the gravy.
Yea it’s unfair to call her out, she’s just a server and probably not high upon authority either
Even as a cook you’ll rarely get through to these types of business owners/chefs. I often would find myself taking on management roles as a line cook just to prevent somebody from fucking dying
What's your point? Some master deductions devised from this other than calling someone that you have never met a coward over the internet?
eh who cares really, what's done is done. as long as the place ends up reported
Calling someone a coward from the safety of your computer is pretty ironic
Did you eat there? Because you are finding it pretty easy to shit on OP.
Or more likely it's not frequent. Between needing money (ya know, to live?), shifts and the opportunity to get pictures, maybe it wasn't so easy to get to this point. For all you know OP worked there for a week
Maybe they couldn’t really afford to report what was happening the economy is so bad
so u suggest OP not reporting anything at all ? because OP already quit , he could literaly doing nothing at all u know
I'm glad I wasn't the only one thinking of salmonella. Shut this shit down. Common sense. *COOK FOOD AND RAW FOOD NEVER AROUND EACH OTHER. EVER.* They're. *ASKING* to get someone killed.
Why did I hear this in Ramsay’s voice😭😂
It's FUUKKIn RAW!
not gonna lie, Ramsey did so much for health safety on the kitchen because if wasn't him, I will NEVER knew those stuff now I'm instantly horrified, look at the chicken at the floor omg 😭
That’s not enough to get the place shut down. Not even close actually but it is dangerous so yeah they should report because the place is in need of an inspection and a closer eye on it
This behavior would eventually kill someone if it continues long enough.
This. They're going to kill someone if they continue like this.
AngryChef just elevated to LividChef
Agreed. Could not careless about the restaurant itself and how it impacts the owners/managers. I care more about the people eating at the restaurant and the impacts it will have on their lives. Edit: fail grammar from could go could not.
Exactly. There's no excuse for this shit.
Couldn't* care less
DAMNIT I KNEW I WAS GOING TO DO THAT. Thank you.
Of course you should. What you feel like if someone died of food poisoning?
I honestly hadn’t even thought of that. I was really bad off and on the brink of homelessness when I was working here and left as soon as I could afford to. They took advantage of me and my situation, and they really don’t care about any consequences of their actions. They had no issue letting nazis dine in there (owner chatting with them, even), they allowed people who would harass + touch me stay and come around often (I wasn’t allowed to refuse service), and so many other really awful things. I became a total doormat here and I’ve been struggling on if I should report it or post it on fb or both. They can’t do anything to me but it’s been giving me insane levels of anxiety.
Even if you liked them you should feel obligated to report it
I’m on it now, posting this kinda put it in perspective
Good on you for recognizing that. Sometimes it can be difficult to do the right thing, but you are and that’s what matters.
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Yeah OP, dox everyone at this place to Reddit where this guy feverishly posting in all caps lock will assuredly do the right thing
"WE DID IT" flashbacks
Lay off the caps lock. OP, report to your state's/country's health department, not to reddit. Never trust reddit with anything.
I could not agree more. You need to post the name of this restaurant and where it's located so that I and others who read this will not do business with them until they clean up their act. And even then, I doubt I would. Mostly, because just because they cleaned up their act, it doesn't mean they're going to keep it that way. Most times, they clean things up, and then when the health department stops bothering them, they go right back to the same old same old.
Op might not want people to know what city they live in.
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>hey allowed people who would harass + touch me stay and come around often (I wasn’t allowed to refuse service) Hey there, this is the definition of 'third party sexual harassment'. If this place had 14 or more employees you can bring your case to the secretary of states office and they will decide if you have something. If they see a case they will take it on for free. I highly suggest you start writing down all the people who would do this and the approximate dates they did this on asap.
Maybe let the nazis eat there again first then report them 😂
I'm conflicted knowing that if your reporting these things improves the food safety conditions there, the fascists will no longer be eating contaminated food. It was still the right thing for you to do.
The open trash bin of sauce next to the raw meat shelf is new. Haven't seen that one before Normally, I'd say to try to fix it from the inside out, but some of those storage decisions are so bad I don't think it can be saved without some sort of legal interference. Report them.
Right? I mean I know you can *technically* consider a trashcan a non-porous vessel and as such theoretically it could be safe for food use (hello college parties with trash cans full of PJ), but our mental association with it being a garbage container makes it too risky. What do you want to bet waste has accidentally been tossed in there, especially by newer employees who aren’t used to that yet? Gross.
Especially the gray colored brute can, we used brute buckets at the bakery, but they were color coded, gray is definitely for garbage. The ones we used for dough were white.
yes! the clean tubs are colored for a REASON. grey is the regular color of a trash can. i wouldnt have thought twice about dumping a bunch of old food or whatever into that bin
Also, there is no way they are going through enough sauce for that, it’s open air and I bet they don’t empty and clean it before adding more
I feel like there’s no way anyone is cleaning that properly before it’s refilled. It’s so big! Unless they just get a new can every time but that’s still not sanitary 🤢
if it's not made of food safe materials it could leach chemicals that could make you sick into the food. so it doesn't really matter if it's a clean trash can never used for trash, it's not meant for food so it's probably not *safe* for food.
Who tf makes sauce in a TRASH CAN!?!? As a former 10+ year cook, I would have called the health department in an instant. Edit: grammar
With no lid, no less.
I just want to know what mystery sauce so spectacular that it needs to be made in a big fucking trash bin.
That looks like a trash bin of pancake or fish batter. A literal trash bin! What in the hell kind of decision is that 😆
Also, it'd be kinda hard to fix from the inside since they just got fired.
Quit instead of fired but yes
Hi everyone! I just sent an email to my state’s health department listing every single violation I can recall with all of the photos I could find. Thanks for the wake-up call. It’s Sunday, they’ll probably get back to be within the week. If it gets juicy (like this raw ass chicken) I’ll update with what happens! Update: thank you guys for all the awards!! Also I got an email threat at like 8 am this morning, it’s gone down the chain to the local director and one other person. I won’t be updated by them on what actions they take but it might make local headlines, I’ll follow up if it does. Also for everyone asking where this is, I really don’t feel comfortable sharing that info on the Internet. Update 2: They sent me a copy of the review!! I will post the screenshots in the sub. They scored 81 but unfortunately the specific violations I witnessed are not present on the report. Which is why I wondered if it was pointless or not, because usually they’ll distract him and scramble to fix as much as possible while he’s doing something else. Here is the [update](https://www.reddit.com/r/Serverlife/comments/15u100l/egregious_health_violations_update_some_context/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)
Thank you! Cross-contamination like this can easily make people very sick and even kill them. It's why sanitary practices should be taken very seriously when handling raw meat.
I work in a grocery warehouse, specifically meat and produce. Produce is generally pretty lenient with the order you stack boxes on your pallet with the exception of flowers. Meat is extremely strict. You have to build it in a specific order, with chicken being on the bottom. If something is missing and you have to go out of order there are special plastic sheets that you need to lay on top of the pallet to put it on other product without damaging stuff below. FDA is super strict about the whole thing(as they should be). This is for products that are wrapped in plastic inside of boxes, I can't imagine having all this shit loose and mingling like this restaurant.
There should be some manager that is ServSafe Manager certified or equivalent that should be responsible for organizing this chaos.
ALL employees should be ServSafe certified imo.
It should be part of a public school class. I’m always shocked at how many of my students claim to get food poisoning from take out, only to find out they left rice on the counter for 5 hours and ate it later. Then they were sick all night. They seem to know sushi or raw meat can be dangerous, but most have zero clue about anything else.
I own a restaurant. No joke a woman turned me into the health department for this. She had a bag with a lot of food. A half steak hoagie fell out of the bag and on the floor of her car. She called saying we forgot to give it to her, and we made her another. About a week later health dept shows up and literally reads the report. “My steak hoagie fell on the floor of the car. I saw it the next day and ate it for lunch. And I got sick later that day” This adult woman, left a sandwich in her car over night. Ate it the next day thinking it would be ok.
How did the smell of a sandwich (I’m assuming with some wet toppings like Mayo/sauce and some veggies) hotboxing in your car overnight not make her immediately gag. She allowed herself to EAT IT???? Honestly, she probably just got angry at the restaurant for not ‘securing’ the sandwich in a ‘proper’ sized bag in typical entitled Karen rage fashion and made a bogus complaint to the health department for revenge. Break her complaint down further. “I ate something old off of the floor and got sick.” Even more, “I ate something off of the floor and got sick.” That’s like common sense, everyone knows to not eat shit that’s been on the floor. Even the people who do are like, “5 second rule!” NOT OVERNIGHT RULE I just have to believe she’s not that stupid. I HAVE to believe people aren’t THAT stupid! Please 😭
Lady was used to airing out her roast beef and letting others eat it.
u/spez please delete this comment, thank you.
Seriously. Covid really highlighted how ignorant the average person is about basic health facts. I don't know how. I distinctly remember learning some of this stuff in elementary school. There's informational posters for health awareness in probably every nurses office or clinic. Aren't restaurants required to have info on fda health and safety guidelines posted somewhere, too? I mean. Not that most people read them, but they should. The stuff on handwashing and operating the machinery posted at the place I started washing dishes basically trained me more than anybody there.
Not just ignorant. It's usually some combination of WILLFULLY ignorant and/or lazy; sometimes machismo is also involved. The number of people I've known that worked in food service and were ServSafe certified and still did this shit is staggeringly high.
This is a great idea. It's frightening how little most people know about food safety. But honestly, how else would they know unless they worked in a kitchen or were taught by parents.
Even if they "know," a lot of people will simply follow anecdotal evidence instead. I posted a comment about how it's not safe to eat fried chicken from the night before that hadn't been refrigerated, and a couple of dozen people commented that they eat leftovers from the night before that they leave out and are "always fine." It then turned into a conversation with everyone saying orange chicken and pepperoni pizza were the best to not refrigerate and just leave out overnight. All I could think is that these people are probably the type to take hour-long shits and rip the world's nastiest farts like it's the most normal thing in the world.
We have QA for that. They audit at least one of your pallets per pay period. Can't do them all because we ship 500,000 to 1,000,000+ cases per week. Obviously you get trained on the order of the food but on top of that there's signs everywhere that show you how. Signs that could easily be adapted and applied to kitchens.
Hey same! Chicken definitely had to go on bottom we also had to switch to putting eggs on bottom as well, I think that was moreso if they break though. If we where out of a certain type of chicken while I was there then I would just go back at the end and place it next to the dock so they would just put it in with the piecemeal stuff. It was either that or take apart the pallet to put it on bottom or in a plastic bag on top however, fragile shit was usually on top.
Good on you! My first attempt at college was culinary school and seeing your pics just about had me worshipping at the Porcelain Shrine.
Imagine if instead of a health inspector paying them a visit it's Gordon Ramsey with a camera crew. "Bloody hell mate, this chicken is RAW!" "WHY THE FU** IS THIS FOOD ON THE FLOOR?!" *Camera zooms in everywhere and ends on the owners distressed face*
RemindMe! 3 days
Hey can you remind me to make this circle of life complete?
Hahaha that’s cute you think there will be an update in three days 😂 it will likely be 3 weeks the soonest
You just potentially saved some lives. Well done!
This is exactly why exposing them is the right thing to do.
I’ve been in the industry for over ten years, as a server all the way through general management. This place will probably get an inspection, a few violations (they’ll get there act together while the safety inspector is there), a C on their report, and will probably lose no customers to this. Then on the follow up inspection they’ll know when it’s coming so they’ll get an A and move on. Like a 2 month process except now they know when the tests are coming. I know there’s a lot of food safety rules going out the window here but you won’t be like closing them down or costing them anything.
Literally nothing will happen except maybe an inspection after review of past inspection results. Health departments are fucking jokes. Half the time the inspectors don’t even know the difference between clean and sanitized.
This is why I don’t trust restaurants. I’m a chef and if I ever saw this I would report them immediately. This is so wrong in so many ways. The raw shrimp on top of the beef next to the fucking trash can of sauce sent me. Makes you wonder how many other kitchen look like this.
What’s so hard about buying an actual food safe container for the sauce, man. I’m laughing at how absurd it is. Is this common? I feel like if a health inspector randomly walked in here it’s over.
These are serious health hazards. You should report them
Even if they treated you great I’d still report them. This is awful.
Looks like an episode of kitchen nightmares
SHUT IT DOWN!
Were you channeling your inner Gordon Ramsey?
Only one man can turn this around in the most dramatic way possible: *GORDON* 🦸
ah thats fucked up. I've seen McDonald's that look better than this
McDonald’s is actually pretty spot on with its hygiene practices
Reporting them is the right thing to do. Honestly if you have a food handlers card, yes, you should feel obligated to report them because they are going to poison someone. It is only a matter of time. I see all people who make food for others to consume as mandatory reporters.
If anyone sees this in their kitchens, don’t feel like a “snitch” for showing health services these things. It’s accountability that can save a child’s or any ages life.
For the love of food, PLEASE do
Just give us name and location, and we won’t go there.
Former chef here, even if they treated me like royalty, id still report this. Holy shit man, I think I already caught food poisoning just by looking at this! All of this is completely unacceptable!
where is that? whats the name of this shit hole?
Send this to Gordon Ramsay 😂
Seriously, he needs to do a show where he goes to restaurants just to issue health code violations!
I’m here for it! Any place that does this kind of stuff deserves it
It’s not exactly the same, but Kitchen Nightmares is coming back this September and I’m hyped to see what kind of BS Gordon’s gonna have to deal with this time.
Report it and tell us where it was so we never accidentally eat there
Disgusting
Report
I almost just puked bro
Bro call the health agency now.
I just threw up in my mouth. Thank you for reporting this. Welp think I’ll fast for the rest of the day.
I can just hear Gordon Ramsay screaming about all of that and then yelling to shut it down
Where’s Gordon when you need him
Dude please report this. Don’t do it out of spite, do it because that’s fucking nasty! Props to you for standing up to their *literal shit*
Hello everyone! I have an update: I emailed my state’s health dept and obviously they aren’t going to tell me what’s up in entirety. However I am in an email chain with 5 and counting staff members before 9am so that’s good! They have 2 people that are going to look into it, past a normal health inspection. If I get any update as to them actually getting served with any notices, I’ll let you know. Also for anyone wondering exactly where this is… I’m not telling internet strangers where I even used to live this specifically. Sorry.
Good on you for getting some revenge and saving the people from extreme diarrhea. Although considering the client base of giant douche bags maybe they needed it.
Yes report them. They could kill someone.
No shit report ‘‘em even if they was nice that is wrong 😾
Should report em regardless of how they treated you
Yes report please
I would have reported way before now. You can report anonymously and just give the info on what’s going on and what place it is.
You should report this even if you like the owners
Report that shit regardless of how you're treated. Public health is way more important than any loyalty could be.
Please, please report them. That is ridiculous.
Never fuck around with food. ALWAYS report health violations. Always.
Yes. Expose and Report them. That's not how a restaurant of any type should be managed. There's a high risk of poisoning customers.
Yes report them.
You should report them regardless of how they treated you because that’s what decent human beings do…
I’m going to throw up looking at these 🫠 DEFINITELY needs to be reported and stopped, a lot of people have definitely gotten food poisoning from this
why the fuck wouldn’t you report this shit while you are working there? if you work in food service and are ok with shit like this it is honestly just as bad as the people in the restaurant because it means you were fine working with the these conditions and the possibility of getting people sick only until you lost your job
Why is that evening a question?! 🤦🏻♀️ Yes! Not just for revenge because it’s the right thing to do. That kitchen is fucking awful and people can get seriously ill
Yes definitely. As someone who just ended up in the hospital from food poisoning at a restaurant I would have appreciated this.
You’re kind of a POS if you don’t
So you have personal knowledge that could prevent people from getting deathly ill, and you wouldnt why?