It was in a small saucer, and there was something in the center, that I figured was a pepper or whatever.
One of the other guys was more curious, and forked it up.
It was a dead cockroach.
Others from work had similar experiences to yours, including a number of roaches scampering out from underneath a cloche.
We stopped going, and it "experienced" a kitchen fire in the middle of the night a month or two later, and didn't reopen.
LOL!..............We’ve had ‘several’ kitchen fires of ‘unknown origin’ strike some local restaurants over the years.
One guy was caught on the bank ATM camera, across the street from his restaurant, going in about 3 AM and leaving, then suddenly the place catches on fire.
He not only burned down his own place, but the business next door as well, which wasn’t his..................