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johnnybsterile
Good grief, if I would ever go through what KK went through and managed to recover, I think the next time I saw a gross slobby bastard in a public restroom come out of the toilet stall and bypass the sink I would grab the motherfucker BY THE THROAT and DRAG his sorry ass to the hand washing facility.
I really wish these eating establishments would instal doors to/from the restroom that you PULL open to get in and PUSH to get out. That should be a state health LAW! I also HATE with the fires of ONE MILLION HELLS these damned restaurants that don't offer paper towels and just give you that air blow thing. Then you have NOTHING to protect yourself from the shit that's on the door handle that the filthy pig who didn't wash his hands touched last! :headbrick When I can, I ALWAYS grab a paper towel to open the door/
When people get E coli, I'd be willing to bet that THIS is the #1 reason.
jbs
:thumbwink I agree!
I am one of those people who, as a habit, wipe down ALL surfaces with bleach when I close my kitchen up for the night, toss our trash bags even if there's only a few items in it IF there's any food product at all in there to avoid germs, roaches, and creepy crawlies, I go through paper towels like some people do underwear, and I buy antibacterial hand soap by the case and have for as LONG as I can remember. I avoid public restrooms whenever possible, I don't buy ready made deli/salad bar food from the store anymore unless it's cooked and/or can be cooked or reheated properly, and although we occasionally do get carry out and once in a great while eat out at a restaurant, I am always leery of it, look at their health score before I order, and "BOLO" (Be On the Look Out) the place as I go in and/or while I am there for health related infractions I think might affect whatever I ordered.
I have observed it absolutely has to do with the individual location and the management, but even then they can't account for every single employee and their potential nastiness, as I learned when I managed a restaurant. Although my place was extremely clean, as far as restaurants go, I couldn't be there 24-7 and I was HORRIFIED when I discovered some of the shit employees(and owners!) did or didn't do behind my back. Remembering that, even when a place looks well managed and clean, I still don't trust others to prepare my food and that goes DOUBLE for "pot luck" dinners with famblee and friends! I will share some of those disgusting stories with you and I'd like to hear all of yours too so our PSA's may do us some collective good as precautionary tales.
Gross Shit Regarding Food I Have Seen or been Made Aware of Over the Years
Keep in mind these are only the incidents that stand out in my mind as there are many others. Also know that for every one we know about there are likely a dozen more that went unnoticed
Ass Scratching Pit Cook
1)At the area where our BBQ pit was located there were clear swinging doors which one booth near it had full visual of that area of the kitchen. In fact, because of nasty shit that goes on in the kitchen, we were told from the very beginning when I first worked there back in 1982 to AVOID seating people there whenever possible. That, and no one wants to sit by the kitchen door was another reason, but the primary reason was we didn't want them peering into the kitchen. On busy days it couldn't be avoided and this one day in particular one of my regular customers was seated there and he had never complained before. That day, however, he called me over to his table and he looked disgusted. He then told me he SAW the pit cook chopping up meat, reach his entire hand down the back of his pants and scratch, and then he went RIGHT back to cutting and slicing meat and placing it on customer serving plates.
I was APPALLED and in shock, but I went straight back there and asked the guy, "Big Mike, did you reach your hands down your fucking pants and scratch your ass a few minutes ago?" He laughed and replied, "Well, yeah, it itched!".:dp
Waitress Drinking from Customer Beverages
2) I was filling in at an annex location of the restaurant that had foolishly added a drive-thru window to the side of the place which is idiotic for a full service dining establishment, but that's another rant for another day. Anyway, from the drive-thru waiting area the customer in his vehicle had a clear view of that whole side of the front dining room AND could see right into the server area where they filled drinks from the soft drink fountain and tea urns. This woman exited her vehicle parked at the drive thru, came INSIDE the restaurant, tracked me down, and exclaimed, "HER! That waitress RIGHT THERE just made up that tray of drinks she is serving to that family and I SAW her take drinks out of TWO of the glasses and walk right out there and put them on that table!" I was rather shocked and thought perhaps the woman was a nut, but I told her I would deal with it and she mercifully left because people were staring at the situation since she was rather loud.
I asked the waitress if it was true and she said, "I was THIRSTY and didn't have time to go and make myself something to drink! Besides, I ONLY took a few sips!" AS IF that excused her actions!:headbrick
Dead Deer in the Cooler
3) The owner of the place and his sons were avid deer hunters and one weekend when I came in on a Sunday morning I got the shock of my life when I unlocked the front cooler, where racks of cooked meat waiting to be served are stored, and there was a DEAD DEER propped up against the fucking trays of ribs and chicken! Not only was the bloody carcass REVOLTING, you could see fucking TICKS on the damned thing and I would imagine it had fleas and God only KNOWS what all else too! I paged the owner, "9-11", and asked him HOW I was supposed to carry on with business as usual that day with a fucking DEAD DEER to traverse all fucking day in the God Damned walk in cooler?!! He told me to "calm down", one of his sons had done it, it was Sunday and we weren't in danger of a health inspection, (WTF?), and he would come and get the thing before we opened, which he did. However, WHO KNOWS how many ticks, germs, or whatever might be found on a DEAD ANIMAL, may have transferred over to the 100+ pieces of cooked chicken and NINE TRAYS, holding 10-15 slabs each, of cooked ribs?:smn
Aunt Has NO Concept of Proper Food Handling
4) God only knows how much of her tainted food I ate over the years before I realized how nasty she was with her food prep, handling, and storage. I was probably 18 or 20 when I discovered it because I spent the day before a holiday at her house and saw her grossness in action. Among other nasty shit like she NEVER washed her hands, I also saw her chop up vegetables on a counter where she had JUST cut up raw chicken and didn't sterilize it, she used the same knife she used to cut raw meat on slicing cheddar cheese without washing it first, and perhaps the worst of all was her food storage methods. She left potato salad she later brought to the famblee get together out on the counter ALL night with the excuse of, "It isn't hot out, so it should be okay", She only partially cooked mac and cheese with egg, milk, and cheese in it and left that out on the counter too to be "warmed up" later the next day for the famblee meal, which needless to say was nothing more than a makeshift petri dish harboring bacteria and "warming it up" of course would make the Salmonella Soufflé more active.
She also allowed her cat up on the counter while she was preparing food and he'd stick his paws in it, lick on it, and probably transfer hair all over the fucking food as well. She also pet him several times WHILE she was preparing food and as expected, didn't wash her hands which she also used to mix up food instead of a spoon. She was SO CLEAN with her personal hygiene it never would have occurred to me, unless I had seen it firsthand, how NASTY she was with food prep!!! :ts
Urine and Fecal Samples-Insulin Stored in the Walk In Prep Cooler
5)I found all of the above in a cooler one day at the restaurant and the cook's excuse was she had a doctor's appointment that day after work and didn't have time to go back home after her shift and retrieve any of it. She excused it by saying, "It was in a baggie!" Well, LOTS of stuff to be served to customers is "in a baggie" TOO and a dozen people on any given day have access to that cooler! AS IF.:dp