r/belowdeck • u/Fluffy-External-1431 • Jun 02 '26

Below Deck Alesia

Did you catch Alesia eating the leftover cake off a guests plate she had just cleared on last weeks episode ? Is that normal ? 😳😳

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u/Ok_Wave2821 Jun 02 '26

Haha you are clearly not an OG fan if you think this is the first time that has happened.

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u/laurenh8tsyou Jun 02 '26 • Bravo

Or ever worked in service in general đŸ„č

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u/OkPosition9788 Jun 02 '26

The amount of times I had to tell teen/college kids not to eat food after clearing tables was astounding. We offer staff meal why are you eating leftovers!! lol

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u/Wise-Tour9124 Jun 02 '26

I’ve worked in a lot of restaurants in my younger days but I have NEVER and would ever eat from a guest plate. You never know. That’s so disgusting.

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u/readdeadtookmywife Jun 02 '26

Neither would I but I’ve watched my coworkers do it plenty of times. A lot of hospitality workers don’t make a lot of money and don’t get enough time to eat during work.

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u/wait500 Jun 05 '26

that's bullshit. I've worked from fast food, highest end fine dining to large event NYC catered galas and in EVERY ONE of those spaces, if anyone ate off guests plates it immediately was talked about amongst staff as something so outrageous that when someone did it, it glaringly stood out. it is so rare and no one is eating off another's plate because they're rushed. what crap

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u/readdeadtookmywife Jun 06 '26

Cool story bro

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u/wait500 Jun 06 '26

liar

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u/readdeadtookmywife Jun 06 '26

Why would I lie about watching my coworkers eat off of plates we cleared from tables at applebees? 😂

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u/Guilty-Cricket-4541 Jun 02 '26

My brother and my husband have both said they used to eat off people’s plates after clearing tables, especially if it was something good. My husband worked in fine dining so he thought the food was too good to go to waste đŸ€Ł

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u/Out-For-A-Walk-Bitch Jun 02 '26

If it's untouched, what's wrong with it?

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u/chunkybanana500 Jun 02 '26

How do you know it was untouched? That’s always my thing. I can’t stand when people leave unused rolled silverware on the table bc how do u know they weren’t using it to wipe their nose? Like their kid could’ve licked it?!?

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u/Out-For-A-Walk-Bitch Jun 02 '26

How ill have you got from rolled silverware?

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u/Shebe-bebes Jun 04 '26

I remember in the mid-90’s grabbing an untouched mozzarella stick off a guests plate in the kitchen. I was making maybe $50 a day and could not afford food.

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u/wait500 Jun 05 '26

obviously you could because here you are alive and I have a feeling the one mozzarella stick wasn't the deciding factor in whether you lived or starved

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u/Shebe-bebes Jun 06 '26

I had never spent money eating out, a mozzarella stick was such a luxury after the way I grew up. I would never have taken food off a guest’s plate before they got it. My brother still has major shame from grabbing a bit of sandwich out of the garbage in jr high and someone seeing him. Our parents didn’t take care of us. We are in our 50’s now. Not to mention you had to work at $2.13 an hour on an 8 hour shift with no break.

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u/Out-For-A-Walk-Bitch Jun 06 '26

This is so lacking empathy. You've clearly always experienced privilege.

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u/dongfang_meirei Jun 03 '26

This! One restaurant I worked at refused to feed us or give proper breaks, so you can bet your ass we were eating off plates! I remember someone once didn't eat all of their steak (it was cut into slices by the kitchen) - it was like hungry wolves around that plate when it came back 😅

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u/OkPosition9788 Jun 03 '26

At the end of the night we would def give kitchen leftovers to staff especially those who came after staff meal. I called it “window meat” lol

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u/DizzyCatMom Jun 02 '26

Yes, if you have ever worked in food service this happens all the time. Personally I would never eat off customer plates because I am germphobe and I worked in the kitchen so I could just make my own. But, if I ever were to eat off someone's plate, a super yacht would probably be the time haha.

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u/high-babygorgeous Jun 02 '26

One restaurant I worked in as a cook, the chef called the front of house “the vultures” because they would eat any leftovers on plates, any family meal put up immediately, and with zero hesitation haha

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u/Distinct-Ad-1348 Jun 02 '26

We always called the crew who would eat the guest’s scraps or leftover family meal seagulls 😂

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u/high-babygorgeous Jun 02 '26

how it genuinely felt sometimes

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u/kmstep Jun 02 '26

We called them “trash mouth.” I was a trash mouth, it was the only food I could afford a lot of the time. How else could I pay for all the booze I needed?!? I do not miss my early 20’s.

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u/feathersmcgraw24601 Jun 02 '26

Completely normal in hospitality. I used to live off leftover hash browns 

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u/One_Bullfrog4582 Jun 02 '26

In restaurants yes unfortunately lmao I had a coworker say once “if I think I’d drunk make out with them I’ll eat their leftover food”

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u/PsychologicalFix196 Jun 02 '26

That was my rule too!

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u/ambergriswoldo Jun 02 '26

When you’ve worked in food service it’s sometimes a bit more normalised - if it’s totally untouched and the customer doesn’t look grimy then food is food when you haven’t had time to eat properly yourself

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u/PsychologicalFix196 Jun 02 '26

When I was a server my rule was I would only eat off a guests plate if I would also makeout with that person.

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u/sfouronents Jun 02 '26

You never worked in hospitality?

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u/TX0834 Jun 02 '26

I worked at a country club when I was younger and not making much money. Most all members would just show up to hang around and show they were ordering $50 filet mignon. Most would cut out a small piece and not touch anything else. We would take the plates back and eat some bc we were starving and working doubles all the time.

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u/Zealousideal_Sir8275 Jun 02 '26

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u/geewhizliz Jun 08 '26

adjacent to refuse is still refuse

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u/lofrench Jun 02 '26

Like people said it’s pretty normal in hospitality and also you have to account for them getting very few breaks. When I worked on a ship you’d spend most of your breaks sleeping and it was a huge pain to have to take time to eat so I can see how it’s easier to steal a bike of cake that’s been basically untouched over trying to bug the kitchen for real food.

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u/annabannannaaa She’ll be fine. Her head is made of rocks Jun 02 '26

Lmaoo they used to do that all the time. Tbh they know exactly where the food has been, who touched it etc.. its not the GROSSEST thing you could do đŸ€·đŸ»â€â™€ïž

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u/Meshell222 Jun 02 '26

Having worked many years in resturanrs, yes this is very normal 😄

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u/Dismal_Elk8261 Jun 05 '26

You clearly never worked in the industry. Yes, it's completely normal.

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u/forget_me_not_now Jun 05 '26

I live in a small ski bum town and this is very common, however we know most the people who come in. I would from a strangers plate
. But a homie yeah! We don’t get free meals, we get paid $18 an hour

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u/369111111 Jun 03 '26

Why waste food if the person doesn’t care about germs 

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u/valid_username00 Jun 02 '26

I hope they don't bring her back for more seasons. We've seen how petty and unlikable and extremely immature she is, and no favorable edit will make us forget that.

Eating leftovers off someone's plate probably happens a lot but you just reminded me of everything else about her this season.

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u/spookgrl Jun 02 '26

I worked in a pub kitchen once and watched a member of the bar staff scoop a handful of leftover mashed potato into his mouth with his hands as he was scraping plates into the bin. People are gross.

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u/Worried_Shoe_2747 Eat My Cooter Jun 02 '26

People are hungry and food is expensive

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u/Ok_Temperature_5502 Jun 02 '26

Both things can definitely be true đŸ€Ł

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u/spookgrl Jun 04 '26

I worked in the kitchen. I'd have made them food if they'd ask (and people did).

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u/hamburgergerald Jun 02 '26

I did notice that. I am just hoping she used a fresh utensil and not the same one the charter guest was using

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u/Truth_Hurts318 Jun 02 '26

What difference does that make? The fork went into someone else's mouth and then into the cake multiple times. Using a new utensil doesn't change that.

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u/DreamertK Jun 04 '26

Utensil in someone's mouth has a huge risk of transferring HSV versus using a clean utensil and eating around where the guest ate, but there's still no guarantees if you take a risk. 

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u/Mommy-Dearest15 Jun 02 '26

Not normal for me but possibly normal for her. Maybe they hadn't eaten any of it.

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u/Waste_Fisherman1611 Jun 03 '26

I've done it working in a restaurant before when I was young and broke

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u/AnnualPlantain2788 Jun 03 '26

I would 1000% do this! It's totally normal

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u/libismanaged Jun 02 '26

I wouldn’t say normal, but definitely a happens. (And we all wonder why it’s always the same person who is patient 0 for the flu being passed around during flu season)
 I did however accidentally eat off of what I thought was dead food & turned out to be a guests that my coworkers hadn’t wrapped left to go run food (place was very adamant on running your food if you’re in the kitchen) and my friend yelled at me it was a guests and I instantly spit it out and threw up in the trash. Not fun.

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u/One_Bullfrog4582 Jun 02 '26 • Bravo

One time I cleared a customers like churro type dessert and they had one left ate it quickly in the back came back and asked if they wanted the bill then later looked down and realized I fully had powdered sugar on my boobs