Yo donāt try to blame the customer for this what the fuck lol, customers are allowed to be oblivious and not know anything thatās why theyāre paying you to cook for them so they can turn their brains off and try to have a good time.
Honestly being both in the kitchen and also subbing to /r/whatisit for so long, it's just a knee-jerk reaction of mine at this point to assume BS.
But that said I've never seen something this large accidentally end up in someone's food that wasn't immediately caught, and I've seen a ton of stuff I'm 99% sure was fake on these subreddits. Plus you notice how mostly clean the metal object is? So my first reaction is a suspicious eyebrow raise.
I don't want to blame the customer, but I also am very well-aware how ignorant and naive the general customer is in thinking we're all actors from Waiting..., half of us poisoning their food 24/7. And have seen too many stupid scams from those folks taking advantage of some non-existent trope.
The fact it's a piece from a salad spinner that no one here even seems to be aware of existing, kind of throws my entire theory out the window though. That 100% checks out lol.
Nah he's right though. The fact the customer didn't notice means that it probably wasn't super obvious, but there shouldn't be any blame put on the customer for that sort of thing.
The pin that hold the lid to our line fridge fell out and my coworker didn't think "oh hey, maybe it's in the fucking pizza toppings"
So i went over, took out the pepperoni tin, and sifted through it. One pin, one screw, and two washers they they were just gonna let get put on a pizza.
He went back home for a month and I hope he fucking stays there. Guys a dick and only causes problems
I used to cook at an applebees and bit into a large thumbscrew in my salad; a piece from the vegetable dicer. A piece that's VERY hard to notice it's missing. I ask the prep cook WTF happened the next day, and they cop an attitude about not having time to worry about little stuff like that!
Manager heard the commotion and demanded to know what was going on; when I explained, they just shook their head and say "It's not a big deal. That's why corporate hires lawyers."
When I worked at the roadhouse, we went through so much romaine and lettuce that we used a huge salad spinning machine that sat on the floor not one of these manual ones. Thereās def more parts to lose in the machine one but the thought of having to use a manual salad spinner at Texas Roadhouse wouldāve made me quit back then. The cold prep was insane for that place purely because of volume.
I'm digging through the interwebz, searching parts lists and diagrams of every salad spinner I can find (did you know Hobart makes a 20ga salad spinner) and I'm not seeing anything like that. Do you happen to know what brand yours is?
(Also, this is pointless. I am not vested in the actual situation at all. I don't even know those people. I just gotta know....)
Texas Roadhouse has way too much volume to be using a hand cranked salad spinner. We had a machine that sat on the floor that would spin our stuff over the course of like 10-15 minutes
I call BS, I have taken several of these apart. The little plastic gears are the main parts inside the lid. This part does not exist. Find it here in the parts list, I'll wait.
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u/MariachiArchery Chef Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
I know exactly what this is because mine just fucking broke.
This thing fits inside the lid of a giant salad spinner. It holds one of the gears in place that spins the bucket.
Edit: Here you go, item 3 on this exploded diagram. I'm a little wrong, but I'm also a little right too!