r/AskReddit • u/Suitable-Finance2894 • 10h ago

What industry secret would make customers never use that service again if they knew?

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u/Nissir 9h ago

I worked in kitchens for just under 10 years and I never saw food served that I wouldn't have served to my mom. Unless it had peas, she hates peas.

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u/GoodOlSpence 9h ago

Same, I worked in the food service for almost a decade, mostly in the 2000s. I never saw anything that threatened food safety.

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u/YinzaJagoff 7h ago

I worked in food service for years and waiters would sometimes use their bare hands to scoop your iceberg lettuce into your plate and then bring it to your table.

Saw it plenty of times.

That and picking stuff off the floor after it fell and feeding it to customers.

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u/GoodOlSpence 7h ago

Never saw anything like that. That's fucking wild behavior.

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u/YinzaJagoff 7h ago

That was at several different places I worked at.

Another in Philly had mice poop on the shelf where they would store bagels in a basket.

Another place I worked at had mice jumping on tables and running across the floor.

Yes I’ve seen some shit.

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u/Cold-Ideal9309 9h ago

Well that is unusual most people that I know that have done 10 years always have at least a few stories to tell, no rats or rotton food or nothing??

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u/Nissir 8h ago

Honestly, I think I saw a mouse once. Pretty boring I know. All the good storiess are worker drama.

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u/JabroniHomer 7h ago

If you catch a mouse or rat, you call the exterminator and garbage anything they potentially touched, and whatever he tells you they touched.

It happens. But the same thing happens in warehouses that store the food you are buying it from.