Eating at a restaurant, do you pay close attention to the one handling your food?

[Doug]

I think the glove is over-rated. You'd almost have to change them every few minutes. I'd rather see the food-handler wash hands, certainly after touching money.

 

[LOUIEM]

Everything you posted is 100% on the money!

Call it restaurant recycling.



According to Collins, some eateries will reuse bread. "The half eaten goes in the bread pudding or the stuffing box and the other loaf goes in the next person's dinner," he said.


"Or they make croutons. Everything is — can be reusable. Nothing is thrown away in a restaurant at all, ever," said Collins.


"I would never eat salsa because I've seen buckets of salsa … you have your salsa on the table and you dump it back in the pot and, and constantly reused," Collins.


Restaurants also reuse butter, the authors say.


And that butter, according to Bourdain, can turn up in your appetizer.

"Many restaurants save up their table butter, used table butter in a big crock of softened butter that they take out of your little, you know, butter dishes at the table. They'll heat it up, strain out the cigarette butts and the bread crumbs and use that for the hollandaise. Gross, but not unhealthy. I mean, they bring it up to a boil so it's OK," Bourdain said.

 

[Doug]

Probably worst in family owned places, where the employees are part of the family. If it happens at a chain, some ex-employee will rat later.

 

[LOUIEM]

Probably worst in family owned places, where the employees are part of the family. If it happens at a chain, some ex-employee will rat later.

Once again you are correct. Family run Greek Diners where the daughter waitresses the wife Hostess's, and the sons cook, look out absolutely NOTHING goes in the garbage, as a matter of fact I've seen things thrown in the garbage and taken out and reused,lol.

 

[MrJ]

Ignorance is bliss. Don't watch them do anything at all.

What about sex? Do you plastic wrap each other all over? You know how much body fluid you exchange during sex? Do you guys ever have sex with girls you don't really know? This is partly why I wouldn't care if a girl licked her finger to do bags or count money, it's really no different than if I just kissed her.

 

[G.MONEY]

I had a pastry chef once that worked for me..and get this he would be decorating a cake and everytime he pulled the pastry bag away to see how it looked he would lick the frosting of the end of the pastry bag and then start decorating the cake again.........WoW

 

[Journeyman]

I had a pastry chef once that worked for me..and get this he would be decorating a cake and everytime he pulled the pastry bag away to see how it looked he would lick the frosting of the end of the pastry bag and then start decorating the cake again.........WoW

Did you fire him G? :smoking:

I wonder if BigBet does this when he's baking his wedding cakes ?

 

[G.MONEY]

Did you fire him G? :smoking:

I wonder if BigBet does this when he's baking his wedding cakes ?

NOPE.......Was to good to fire, just made sure he was not Decorating a cake when the Health Dept. came in..............:drink:

 

[ArkhamB]

You guys have to see "Waiting" w/ Ryan Renolds..and others(2005). It was hilarious. It about these group of people who work at a TGI Fridays type place and the pain in the ass customers they had to deal with ...they really took care of this one lady who complained or came in right before closing...I cant remember. One of the main running jokes in the movie was the cook would pose with his balls stretched out of his pants or something like that, and if you got caught looking he got to kick you in the ass.

Used to work in a fast food place so this movie had alot of "Yeah !! I wish I could've done that moments". You guys would probably be cringing and not laughing.

 

[Journeyman]

You guys have to see "Waiting" w/ Ryan Renolds..and others(2005). It was hilarious. It about these group of people who work at a TGI Fridays type place and the pain in the ass customers they had to deal with ...they really took care of this one lady who complained or came in right before closing...I cant remember. One of the main running jokes in the movie was the cook would pose with his balls stretched out of his pants or something like that, and if you got caught looking he got to kick you in the ass.

Used to work in a fast food place so this movie had alot of "Yeah !! I wish I could've done that moments". You guys would probably be cringing and not laughing.

Believe it or not, I was discussing this very topic/thread today at lunch and a girl friend of mine mentioned this 'telling' movie.

 

[hm2.0]

if you eat out fairly often there's no avoiding this...just gotta get over it.

uke1:

 

[barman]

My motto - Don't Ask, Don't Tell

47 years and still going strong

 

[royboy_3831]

Ignorance is bliss. Don't watch them do anything at all.

What about sex? Do you plastic wrap each other all over? You know how much body fluid you exchange during sex? Do you guys ever have sex with girls you don't really know? This is partly why I wouldn't care if a girl licked her finger to do bags or count money, it's really no different than if I just kissed her.

Absolutely agree. But the germaphobes in this thread are hilarious. I would imagine if they watched the chefs handle their food in the back they would never eat out again.:lol:

 

[steaktartar]

i eat out at least 5 nights a week i dont care food tastes good when to me......if someone drops a load in my fettucine oh well at least i hope they do it before they cook it

 

[stump]

I was just talking about this subject earlier today, I think I am turning into a germo phobe, i can't stand eating in restaurants anymore. It seems like every cook is a dirtbag, and almost every kitchen is a sewer

 

[mike0187]

Ignorance is bliss. Don't watch them do anything at all.

What about sex? Do you plastic wrap each other all over? You know how much body fluid you exchange during sex? Do you guys ever have sex with girls you don't really know? This is partly why I wouldn't care if a girl licked her finger to do bags or count money, it's really no different than if I just kissed her.

Agreed with this. There are germs everywhere, nothing you can do to prevent it completely. Unless someone is spitting in my food or something like that I just try not to find out whats going on and enjoy it.

 

[koolzie]

Chinese Buffets

Chinese Buffets Are The Absolute Worse

Yeah U Can Get That 7.95 All U Can Eat But I Promise That Food Is Grade F And Nasty

One Time I Walked Up To A Restaurant Had To Park In The Back
So I Walk By The Backdoor
I Swear To You

They Had So Much Food Backed Up Prepped To Go To The Buffet The Food Was Sitting On The Floor.

Fucking Flys Everywhere And Even A Dog Was Sitting At The Backdoor Hovered Over The Mongolian Chicken

I Went Next Door To The Pizza Hut At Least It Was A Chain So Hopefully They Had Some Type Of Santiation Going On

 

[gynecologist]

You Germaphobes are funny..

Get some germs in you before your immune system goes to shit and you get really sick when in contact with something..

 

[Mr.Smith]

when I worked at a wendy's as a teenager there was this one kid who was just foul and used to do sickening things. I cant remember what, but one day while working on the grill he did something really nasty and I told him what he had just done was gross.

He said to me " You want to see something gross?" And he took the spatula he was using to grill burgers and wiped it on the bottom of both his shoes, then went back to grilling with it.