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(#3) When There's A Buffet
From Redditor /u/contrabardus:
Buffets are disgusting. Don't eat at buffets. Yeah, it's cheap, and often a "good deal" That "all you can eat" thing sure sounds appealing.
No matter how well managed a buffet is, it can never be sanitary. It is not reasonably possible to run a sanitary buffet business. This is true of salad bars, hot bars, desert bars, or whatever other kind of bulk food in a trough they are serving you.
You are relying on the sanitation habits of the general public... and underpaid employees who wear plastic gloves, had to watch a video about food safety once, and get told to wash their hands by an assistant manager every few days or so.
That oblivious 80-year-old... took a pair of tongs from the fried fish and used it to grab the piece of rotisserie chicken, green beans, three raw oysters, the pile of roast beef, and the pizza slice on his plate before putting it back in the pan where he found it, and none of the employees noticed.
Ignoring several easily visible signs that instruct customers not to reuse plates, some... lady decided she didn't want that piece of fried fish she took and put on the plate she reused for several trips to the food trough, and put it back in the pan on the bar again. No employees saw this happen.
That 8- to 10-year-old kid wiping his... nose into the sleeve of his shirt? He has been coughing into his unwashed hands all day and touched every utensil in every pan on every bar while trying to figure out what he might want before ultimately deciding on his third identical plate full of mac and cheese, spaghetti, a single chicken tender, and a half-dozen chocolate chip cookies.
That 6- to 7-year-old sucking on their own fingers and picking their nose at the same time? Yeah, the little germ ninja went up to the bar by themselves, avoiding the gaze of any employee and unattended by any adult, and just grabbed fistfuls of whatever is on their plate...
"I didn't pee on my hands, so I don't need to wash them": 60% of adult males and 95% of young boys.
You don't want to eat at a buffet. It's one of those things that seems like a good idea until you actually think about it. When you do, it just gets less and less appealing.
I have no idea how buffets are even legal in this country. Everything about them is a sanitation red flag.
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(#9) When The Server Argues About Sending Food Back
From Redditor /u/A_pencil_artist:
If employees try to argue with you about food quality in order to dissuade you from sending something undercooked back, just leave.
It means they have a cook who can't take criticism and your chances at getting a sneezer are greatly increased.
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(#11) When The Employees Are Angry Or Apathetic
From Redditor /u/robotran:
Pastry chef here... The biggest thing to keep an eye on... is the staff. If there's p*ssed-off people, get out as fast as you can, obviously.
If everyone is [kind of] apathetic and not talking to each other much, get out. That's also a sh*tty environment; everyone is probably really passive aggressive, and that's going to show.
If people seem genuinely good with being there even if it's busy, or if there's playful ragging going on, that's where you want to be. The better the staff gets along, the better everything in the place runs.
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(#5) When Menu Items Are Purposely Misspelled
From Redditor /u/Splinkyyy:
In culinary school... every single chef instructor says the same thing: if it's misspelled on the menu it's on purpose.
It's so they don't have to sell you the real thing. A prime example is "Krab Cakes."
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(#18) When No ServSafe Certificates Are Posted
From Redditor /u/-knave1-:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned yet: the [number] of ServSafe certificates posted on their wall.
ServSafe is a national food safety training course that all managers have to take and pass to become managers. It is required in all food service establishments, and for every ServSafe-certified employee, there should be a certificate visible to customers (similarly to health inspection).
So basically, the more certificates you see, the more employees who work there truly understand food safety. It's an incredibly tough test and you have to actually understand the material in order to pass.
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(#12) When The Menus Aren't Clean
From Redditor /u/SoMuchBsHere:
When the menus are super dirty and never cleaned, that means everything is super dirty and never cleaned.
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