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To the Buffett. Well we will leave this one nameless for now. I can take or leave buffett style restaurants. With are bike clubs being very large crowds at times ( 50 to 100 ) it can be hard to go to regular resturants . We had a group after church. Yesterday. So we went to buffet. About six adults and three childern. So not a big crowd. In line to get drinks we see two large very angry male employess about to fight. Which they did go out to parking lot and pound the snot out of each other. Cashier small frame women screaming for others to call 911. Then she gos out side to get right in middle of fight. I am inside with all our folks just being a good witness. Not sure if police ever got there. Other issuses where all the food was pretty bad cold \ old. Restrooms would knock you out too. Ok lets here you horror stories buffett style.
 
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I had to eat in restaurants for many decades in my job. Restaurants and magazines in doctors waiting rooms are the leading cause of illness. When we got sick on a job site we did not go home we just worked sick. I learned a few things over the years. After you order your meal and after you are done touching the germ ridden menus, wash your hands, do not touch the chair when you return, especially the bottom edge so many use to pull their chair up to the table, everybody seems to do this. The salt and pepper shakers are germ magnets as any condiment is in a café. I use my right hand to grab these items and my left hand to eat any food that needs touching. The horrors I have seen in unsanitary cafes could fill a book.
 
As part of a job I had in the past I was required to inspect contract hotels we referred people to. They had to meet certain requirements and, if they operated any food service, that had to be inspected as well. Some of the things I saw were truly disgusting. The hotels had room A/C units that had filters that had never been changed with mold and mildew present. We checked beds with ultra-violet lights and found numerous disgusting stains. Fabric covered headboards with grease stains from other guests heads. Rarely bedbugs. Restaurants almost never passed our inspections. The soda dispensers that dispense everything from one hose were never cleaned properly. Gas ranges with disgusting deposits. Not to mention roaches. I was sorry I ever had to look at any of this because it turned me off to staying in hotels and eating out.
 
My favorite pet peeve is a waitress who serves your drink with their hand over the top of the rim. Any germs she acquired while clearing plates and utensils from previous guests are now on the rim of your glass for your to share. And the lazy wait staff that refills your coffee cup by putting the rim of the pot on the rim of your cup. Every mouth germ from every other patron that had coffee is now on your cup rim for you to enjoy.
 
NYlakesider said:
Its not the food so much its the serious course in people watching you can get!:eek:
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My parents used to go to those buffets all the time. In the area where they lived (rural VA) the food was pretty good. In a low income area people squirrel away that food in purses and jackets before they leave. I've watched them do it.
 
Krell1 said:
As part of a job I had in the past I was required to inspect contract hotels we referred people to. They had to meet certain requirements and, if they operated any food service, that had to be inspected as well. Some of the things I saw were truly disgusting. The hotels had room A/C units that had filters that had never been changed with mold and mildew present. We checked beds with ultra-violet lights and found numerous disgusting stains. Fabric covered headboards with grease stains from other guests heads. Rarely bedbugs. Restaurants almost never passed our inspections. The soda dispensers that dispense everything from one hose were never cleaned properly. Gas ranges with disgusting deposits. Not to mention roaches. I was sorry I ever had to look at any of this because it turned me off to staying in hotels and eating out.
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Seen any rats running around in restaurants? I have. Makes you wonder what goes on in the kitchen when they close up for the day.
 
Muss Muggins said:
Smartest doctor I ever met once told me "You're gonna eat a lot of bugs and dirt in your life. You'll be fine . . . "
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And look what happened to you!:D;)

Some bugs are tasty:), dirt as in soil, we all have eaten. It's the germs, viruses. contaminated food I have issue with

If you every inspected food establishments or worked in one, there are very few you would want to eat at!

But we Humans are foolish.

Could tell many horror stories, but yes there are a few places we still eat at,:eek:
 
FROM A SEMI GERMAPHOBE,

30-30remchester said:
I had to eat in restaurants for many decades in my job. Restaurants and magazines in doctors waiting rooms are the leading cause of illness. When we got sick on a job site we did not go home we just worked sick. I learned a few things over the years. After you order your meal and after you are done touching the germ ridden menus, wash your hands, do not touch the chair when you return, especially the bottom edge so many use to pull their chair up to the table, everybody seems to do this. The salt and pepper shakers are germ magnets as any condiment is in a café. I use my right hand to grab these items and my left hand to eat any food that needs touching. The horrors I have seen in unsanitary cafes could fill a book.
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WELL SAID! I especially like folks leaning waist deep under the sneeze shield. :eek:
 
LostintheOzone said:
Seen any rats running around in restaurants? I have. Makes you wonder what goes on in the kitchen when they close up for the day.
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My dad and I had fun one breakfast time watching a large mouse run about in the decorative shelving in a restaurant attached to a hotel at Bryce.
 
I've watched kids pick up food with their hands and bite into it, then put it back. I don't like buffets.
 
While you are questioning the sanitation when dining out, how do you think your home would compare. How many people use the same towel in the bathroom after relieving themselves, and then after washing hands for dinner? How hot is your dish washer water and do you ever check it for bacteria? Do you or your special other wash hands before cooking. do you wipe your hands on the common towel used to clean off the counter?
Most of the germs and virus' can be handled by your body, and some are actually needed, unless your mother never let you play out in the dirt.
 
Noticed that some of the germophobe comments in this thread have been deleted. Don't be embarrassed. Just recognized that not everybody is frightened by a little dirt. One of the deleted posts talked about a cook in an open kitchen washing his hands, blowing his nose, then using the same towel to dry his hands. Get over it. If that bothers you, don't eat out, because I'm sure many more egregious sanitation violations occur all the time. Live life. It's all good . . .
 
Between the military and my outdoors activities I have eaten my fair share of dirt and germs but if possible I try to avoid the nastier situations nowadays. Seems that when I do get a bug it kicks me a little harder than I remembered.
 
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I have done construction work for many restaurants over the last 25 years and I will tell you there is one chain that stands head and shoulders above the rest on cleanliness in the kitchen and it is the clear winner!

"Raising Canes Chicken".
 
NOT SURE IF KNOWING ABOUT IT HELPS OR NOT.

As stated YOU WILL eat some bugs/dirt/E. Coli at some time no matter what. Is the stress from worrying about it worse??? E.S. & you "probly" won't die. ;) Knowing things to avoid & techniques to help escape encountering them is probly a good thing. Anything can be taken too far or overdone. One trick we used in nursing was, this hand is clean/ this hand is not. As my godfather who worked at the sewage treatment plant (pickle factory) used to say " you learn quick not to bite your finger nails".
 
JohnRippert said:
The only buffets I go to any more are Chinese food, and not many of those these days. I eat too damn much when I buffet it.
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My dad told a story about chasing a crook through the kitchen of a Chinese buffet. The prep cooks were sitting in a circle cutting up chicken on the floor and tossing it into a large stainless steel bowl in the center of the circle . . .
 
THE GOLDEN (5 SECOND) RULE.

Take a course in microbiology, it doesn't help. Neither does being part of a hospitals infectous disease team. Admittedly I can be A BIT (dare I say it) anal about: food left out unrefrigerated, having cooked food on the same cutting board where raw chicken was, hand washing, avoiding things frequently touched by others. The good news is much of the "yuck" requires a fairly large amount to be eaten before making you sick, (unless you are immune compromised) & heat kills a lot of it. TIP: if it don't taste right, STOP EATING IT. :rolleyes: Once home it's A BIT of a different story. Sorta like your own gas not being so bad, but someone else's. :eek:
 
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arjay said:
I remodeled several restaurants in the early 80s.I don't think I ate out for 5-6 years after that.Those kitchens were something [emoji33]
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My x BIL who I still talk to from time to time is a corporate chef. He ran the kitchens in some pretty high class restaurants. One corp he worked for owned a restaurant that was rat infested. He said they tried for several years to exterminate the rats and were never successful. They eventually sold the restaurant because they couldn't control the rats.

I lived in N. Seattle where this restaurant was and the only way I controlled the rats was with two dogs. They killed several hundred rats in the 2 years I lived there.
 
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Years ago (back in the 70's) thee was a neighborhood resturaunt/bar/oyster shucker place around the corner of our house in New Orleans. we were eating there and the oyster shucker was wearing an apron that looked like it hadn't been cleaned in a week. Nevermind the cigarette handing from his mouth as he shucked your oysters. Someone made a snide remark about his filthy apron (I think it was some professor from Tulane :eek:). He winked at me, put down his oyster knife, took off his apron, turned it around and put it back on and continued on with shucking without missing a beat! Oysters were always salty and cold, everyone smoked at the time and if ash got on your oyster you would get an apology and a replacement oyster.:D
Unfortunately that New Orleans does not exist anymore. It has either become gentrified hoity toity or a no mans land and I am truly sorry about it :(
 
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