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rlemmon:
I am going to report them to the health dept. I really doubt anything will come of it though. At the last place i worked they would always call before they came and they would have the place looking good and make everyone do stuff by the book while the inspector was there.


--- Quote from: severdhed on September 26, 2009, 11:32:56 pm ---i sure hope this isn't my applebees...are you in Pennsylvania?

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It is in N.W. pa. My understanding from what they said is that all or most of the applebee's in pa are owned by one guy and ran somewhat separately from the rest of the chain.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: rlemmon on September 27, 2009, 01:12:29 am ---I am going to report them to the health dept. I really doubt anything will come of it though. At the last place i worked they would always call before they came and they would have the place looking good and make everyone do stuff by the book while the inspector was there.

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Yeah, that happened quite a bit at one fast food joint I worked at in high school. HQ was smart though, even though we got state inspections, corporate would instigate their own inspections about three times a year. Corporate would never let us know if they were coming.

Except my boss and I sure as hell wasn't going to leave anything to chance. Some of our past employees worked at the hotels in the area. We would give these ex employees an incentive to let us know whenever an inspector (either state or otherwise) would make reservations. Then my boss and I would be absolutely certain we were scheduled to work when the inspector was due to arrive. The night the inspector arrived, we got our phone call and we made sure we stuck around. I was usually happy as a clam since that meant overtime and hardly any work (not that the corporate inspector was a hot chick had anything to do with it). I was just there to make sure no one ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up. :w00t


--- Quote from: Ummon on September 27, 2009, 12:12:04 am ---I worked at McD's, Hard-on's, and Pizza sl....Hut in my late teens and all were pretty damn clean, with Mickey's being, like, Military spec clean.
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Wasn't it a MickeyD's place that was caught selling MJ in their happy meals?

I'm not sure if that's as bad as the Burger King idiot taking a bath in the sink.

Ummon:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on September 27, 2009, 03:23:13 am ---Wasn't it a MickeyD's place that was caught selling MJ in their happy meals?


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I dunno. I've never really kept up with the news and stuff. Anyone can deal from anywhere. I picked up all kinds of stuff all kinds of places back in high school.


Segue:

It was interesting being a part of that culture at the time. When I was 13 (summer '84) we went to Six Flags Magic Mountain. Maybe I just wasn't clued in yet, but everything seemed just vacation-ish, right? Curious note: almost strictly caucasian folk when we went.

Two-some years later, we went again, and there were all these black males, and some females, wearing fancy and strange clothes, driving convertible mustangs but just cruising round, and in the park seemingly passing stuff to each other right in front of everyone - and folks either didn't see it, or were too afraid to do anything about it. I mentioned it to my parents, and they were a little oblivious but also curious how I knew this stuff. I was all, don't you see how they're movin? (It's just like when you've, either, dipped for a time or hung out with dippers - you just know when you see someone, however much they got it hidden, they got a dip their mouf.)

I went again in '91 and by this time they had the detectors up, and in some cases would frisk you.

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on September 27, 2009, 12:05:07 am ---
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on September 26, 2009, 09:22:42 pm ---Yeah, I was gonna say sounds like a normal kitchen...

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Are you shitting me? No kitchen should ever be run like this, period. I used to work in numerous restaurants and I've flat out fired people for less than what he describes. I used to walk into the back and force the employees to drain the sinks if the tub water wasn't the proper clarity and color.

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I used to run computer cabling.  We'd rewire restaurants POS systems after hours.  I've seen lots.

Before that, I worked in numerous restaurants while in college.  Mice in the walk in - SOP.  Frozen food bags dipped in the fryer to melt the plastic so you didn't have to find a knife to open them - check.

My fave?  While working as a shift kitchen manager at a restaurant that had a buffet - someone broke one of the fluorescent tubes over the buffet.   (Right - no bulb guard) and there were glass shards in the 5 lbs of freshly cooked shrimp that was just placed.  The store mgr wanted me to pick thru the shrimp to clean out the glass.  I drew the line on that one.  Tossed it all out and got yelled at for doing so.

Oh, and the time someone took a bunch of carrot peelings and slop from the bottom of the sink, rinsed it off, put it in a pebble bowl, added some french dressing for color and put it out on the buffet.

You'd be amazed what people will eat.

Level42:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on September 27, 2009, 09:05:52 am ---My fave?  While working as a shift kitchen manager at a restaurant that had a buffet - someone broke one of the fluorescent tubes over the buffet.   (Right - no bulb guard) and there were glass shards in the 5 lbs of freshly cooked shrimp that was just placed.  The store mgr wanted me to pick thru the shrimp to clean out the glass.  I drew the line on that one.  Tossed it all out and got yelled at for doing so.

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Good thing, as fluorescent tubes contain mercury and I guess I don't have to explain how poisonous that is...

The only job at a restaurant I ever had (we call it a "holiday job", in summer time) was when I was about 16. Was at a Burger King in the city of Rotterdam. Rules were strict about hygiene. Things dropped on the floor did have to go in special crates where they counted for the loss, so they were sure you weren't secretly stealing Whoppers ! But still, absolutely forbidden to get it back in the "chain".

At one time I was working at the broiler (the open fire grill that BK is known for). We used a putty knife to get the slices of meat from eachother because they are kept frozen right until they go on the broiler and thus they tend to stick together.
Suddenly I noticed some of the slices had very weird red spots, much more red than the slides usually are. Turned out I had cut my finger but hadn't noticed because of the freezing cold stuff that they are until they go on the broiler.
I called the manager and it was like all panic and hell broke loose. They ditched the entire boxes of hamurgers and whoppers and carefully cleaned the broiler (it has a transport chain that moves the meat over the flames).

So, although I hated the work there, I think they had a pretty good quality at these things.

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