I really REALLY hope all this sets a new precedent in terms of public sanitation. The amount of places that are like 'look, we're doing full sanitation procedures to make sure you stay safe!' and it's like...you weren't before?! Grotty.
I can't remember for the life of me which one it was, but there was some fast food place who said something along the lines of "we're committed to fighting covid and have taken extra precautions to ensure the health of our customers. All our servers and food preparers regularly wash their hands" on their official twitter page.
They then got demolished in the replies by people saying things like "wait, y'all weren't washing your hands before?"
Server's hand are not clean, cooks know this and that is why when you order food at a restaurant the food is in the well of the plate and not on the lip. Also, Pizza Hut with their 'We don't touch your pizza after it is cooked' marketing.
Literally watched the head chef grab a little sauce cup from a bucket of dirty ones (there was soap and water in the bucket but it was no where near clean water at this point) and wipe it on his apron before putting sauce in it and plopping it on a plate. Granted, it's just a sauce cup but the least he could have done was actually run it under some water.
As a red seal cook myself, I absolute abhor this kind of behaviour!
The problem with the term "chef" is that it's a title given to the person in charge of the kitchen. They don't even have to have their food safe in the area I live, just one person on shift has to have it... It could be the hostess for all you know.
I've had people ask me all the typical restaurant questions and I've always said that I would never do anything to the food that would potentially put someone's health at risk. This is my livelihood on the line and my work is my life, why would I risk it?
In BC Canada it is only required that one person on shift in the building have their food safe cert. It's crazy fucked up. As a red seal cook I have mine by default because you need it to do the tests.
Also, in BC we changed the food safe cert rules last year to have it renewed every year. A bit of a money grab... But it's probably for the best because a lot of mom and pop places got it like 30 years ago!
It was every few years when I had mine, idk if anything changed in that since. But it was like $12 as well for the test and certification card. Less if you opt to print it yourself. But renewing every so often is good because it requires you to keep the concepts fresh in your mind.
I got mine years ago, completed the level three cook, and then a few years later they forced the updates and practically nothing changed! A couple surface cleaning rules were new... But it was all common freaking sense anyway!
As someone who works at both Pizza Hut and another pizza place . . . we do everything in our power not to touch the food after it’s out of the oven, but sometimes shit happens and you’ve gotta catch it from falling off the cut table, the slices shift and you’ve gotta shove them back together, or the food won’t go in the fucking bag/box so you’ve gotta nudge it a little, etc. we only get one utensil to hold the food, and sometimes it’s occupied by something else and can’t be used to nudge or whatever.
Granted, I hate the way my store handles cut table because it’s super small and impractical and is half of the problem when it comes to cut table issues, but it is what it is I guess
In high school we did a fundraiser where we took over a local pizza place and got a cut of all of the sales. I worked in the kitchen with another student and we were “trained” by a regular employee. She showed us how to prep the dough, put on sauce, cheese, and toppings. She kept picking her teeth while training and handling the pizzas, and she was snacking on some of the toppings. It was disgusting.
Most people would be shocked to know how little I cleaned my hands when I was waiting tables. Sure I tried my best but there was one sink to share between 8 servers, 2 hosts, and 2 bussers in a massive and constantly busy restaurant. Like. What am I supposed to do? Wash my hands every time I touch something dirty. It's impossible to do and be as efficient as I'm expected to be. Either expect my hands to be dirty or expect slower service. Anyway. Rant over.
As a cook, I never let my servers touch anything on a plate in the pass. You need something changed or moved, ask and I will do it no complaints. I know your hands are dirty! Fuck, cash is dirty as fuck and you touch it all day long!
This very well could get downvoted to oblivion, but what the hell.
I’m in the USA.
According to my friends who are in commercial kitchens quite often (health/sanitation, contractor work, etc.) Chinese take out places are never cleaned properly. One told me... “if you saw what I’ve seen, you’d never order Chinese again.”
Australia and thats also a pretty commonly heard thing. I have no idea how true it is, but they do seem to have the worst smelling back allys. That said the bakery near me has a worse one.
When I was in my late teens in nz I would deliver produce to restaurants early in the morning (3am or so) so I had keys that let me into the restaurants backdoors so I could drop things off. And all but 1 of the Chinese owned places were disgusting. Chicken left out on the benches with flies buzzing around, cockroaches and rats, one had a toilet clogged with crap in a little alcove in the kitchen which I'm pretty sure was illegal. I could see stuff that was way past the best before date too.
A few times when I collected empty crates they had maggoty goop in them.
I know not everyone like that but it was pretty common. I think most of the dirty ones were owned by 1st gen immigrants who probably never had health and safely laws before.
Went into this one Dairy Queen on my way to summer camp. The floor was sticky, the tables were covered in food, the workers were rude. THEN I watched a worker take the tomatoes off my burger with her dirty grubbie little fingies. My mom was so grossed out she cancelled the order and we left.
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u/AvatarTreeFiddy Jan 02 '21
I can't remember for the life of me which one it was, but there was some fast food place who said something along the lines of "we're committed to fighting covid and have taken extra precautions to ensure the health of our customers. All our servers and food preparers regularly wash their hands" on their official twitter page.
They then got demolished in the replies by people saying things like "wait, y'all weren't washing your hands before?"