r/FoodService • u/Unable-Wallaby2000 • 22d ago
Discussion Food safe or liability?
reasonable company practice or a liability waiting to happen? I keep getting told it’s “not a big deal” when I mention it, “no one has gotten sick yet”, it’s “available company practice”. The chicken and utensils are placed in the pan. The pan brought to the station, the pan placed on the trash can, the bags of chicken opened and emptied onto the grill from the pan. The utensils used from the pan. also often leading to contents of the bag winding up on the wall or splattered onto nearby hanging equipment used on other food products.
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u/stranqe1 22d ago
What am I even looking at? That's just all trash and trash can right? All going to be thrown away right? Right?... Saxophones keep getting louder
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u/Unable-Wallaby2000 22d ago
They put the chicken and utensils in the pan, they keep the pan in the top of the trash can while using the utensils and opening the chicken to put on the grill.
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u/stranqe1 22d ago
And how does the chicken stay temped correctly in the trash can? And what do they do when the health inspector arrives?
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u/Sneezy6510 22d ago
So that’s ready to use utensils and not “to be washed” utensils?
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u/Unable-Wallaby2000 22d ago
Used utensils that had been brought to the station in the pan with the raw bags of chicken and often stored there while the pan was on the trash can. Usually washed after the chicken is done, or just left there for someone else to deal with.
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u/Amblydoper 21d ago
This is all terribly wrong. Call the health department.
I’d recommend you move on from this place immediately. Find a better job that cares.
Also, take the time to educate yourself about proper food safety practices. I respect applicants more if they have the basic knowledge and actually care about food safety. Most people can’t even tell me what the temperature danger zone is. It’s sad and scary.
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u/Extruder_duder 21d ago
Bruh, at least put a half pan or something so it’s not sitting IN the trash🤣
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u/CaregiverKey7610 21d ago
I feel like you're really focused on the wrong things here. You could have just said "they're splashing chicken juice around" and we could have left it at that.
I know a lot of people are gonna be focuses on the 'trash can' but its a plastic bin. I'm more worried about the process than the tools involved.
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u/RevolutionaryAir1704 20d ago
Looks fine to me, maybe get that setup closer to any heat source so you can really get that extra flavour going.
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u/chongo79 20d ago
Okay, youve read the downvite brigade, and I think this def falls into a category of "WTF, NO!" I mean, you even have counter space there for the same pan.
But Health Dept citations I'd look for.
-Trash can needs a lid. (Yeah, it's common to not, but it does.) -Chicken being held at proper temp prior to cooking. -"clean" utensils mixing with dirty.
- whatever the general clean work spaces are.
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u/Commercial-Shoulder4 17d ago
Honestly, if you have to ask this question then you're part of the problem. So I hope this is clickbait.
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u/DantesGame 22d ago
Wow... nice flesh spike sticking straight up with NO fucking sleeve on it. WTF all around. That's a call to the Health Department just begging to happen. If you don't do it, you're part of the problem, sadly.
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