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To: setter

[About like this?

Our local Chinese restaurant was shut down for 3 months when a person saw staff scraping leftover food from people plates back into the food bins on the buffet.]


While this is pretty extreme, food service is replete with all kinds of corner-cutting by restaurant operators trying to survive or eke out a profit. One of my favorite shows is Kitchen Nightmares.

What I’d like to find out about is the disgusting personal habits that anyone may have observed. Do they reflexively lick their palms and shake your hand every time you see them? Do they hawk up loogies on the carpet?


30 posted on 01/23/2020 9:20:44 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei

This story may mot a personal habit. Maybe an unthinking action on the part of the cook:

At one Chinese buffet with a grill, I got a plate with some raw meat and vegetables to be grilled. All went well, my food was almost done cooking. It was in a corner of the grill when 2 new customers came up with plates containing uncooked meat to be grilled.
The cook proceeds to scrape the meats onto the grill and then picks up my food onto a clean plate but his grilling implement still had raw meat juices on it. So basically he wiped his serving implement with my cooked food. I didn’t eat the food on that plate.
One of the few times ive been grossed out by food. Good thing I was watching that time.


80 posted on 01/24/2020 4:49:14 PM PST by Redcitizen ("There's no replacement for shot placement" - Paul Harrell)
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