Disgusting things in restaurants

B.A._Baracus

So have you personally seen any disgusting actions by members of staff, customers or what not?

I was in The Full House today on Abbey Street. One of the workers was wiping down the food vat areas with a dish cloth. He then proceeded to flick the cloth over one of the vats. (to give you a visual, imagine if you were wiping away breadcrumbs for example and then you flick the cloth over food so you are returning some of the crumbs to the food) - really disgusting. will be avoiding there from now on because if you see things like that, what really goes on in the kitchen.

Any experiences yourself?

I was given the wrong type of fork in a restaurant once. I was so overcome I promptly fainted.

B.A._Baracus

bluewolf wrote: »

I was given the wrong type of fork in a restaurant once. I was so overcome I promptly fainted.

Such high standards :pac:

Faith+1

bluewolf wrote: »

I was given the wrong type of fork in a restaurant once. I was so overcome I promptly fainted.

You should of dropped an Omlette down her blouse!!

JCabot

I remember once being in a cafe in mullingar and they had a glass case in the place with a stuffed 2 headed piglet in it. I didnt see it until after I had ordered but it was disgusting and nearly made me puke.

The One Who Knocks

this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLEqYxVVoHs

girl in the striped socks

Waiters with grubby looking hands.
Waiters walking outside to smoke in full view of everyone & then walking back in stinking of smoke.
I once returned a meal in a restaurant because it had hair on it. It was sent back out with the food rearranged & when I poked around I found the hair again. I got up, told the manager the place should be shut down, refused to pay for what I got & the next day I rang the food safety crowd.
They didn't shut it down because they couldn't find anything but it did close three months later.

not yet

Faith+1 wrote: »

You should of dropped an Omlette down her blouse!!

A micky omlette...?

refusetolose

people getting sick

Lando Griffin

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

So have you personally seen any disgusting actions by members of staff, customers or what not?


Any experiences yourself?

I will take the what not part of this question.

Our Icecream man " from hell" refuses to wear gloves when serving the children and takes money from them but never has gloves.
He is also the most ignorant man alive, often driving by children waithin for some ice cream.
Well the estate got together and begone with him the piece of s****hit.

Rigol

bluewolf wrote: »

I was given the wrong type of fork in a restaurant once. I was so overcome I promptly fainted.

Did it not have a cork on it?

JCabot

Fight Club

Peeing in the lobster bisque and farting on the meringues

johndoe99

i was in Burger King a few years back, when i see one of the staff, wiping some spilt coke with a cloth off the floor. She then stood up and used the same cloth to wipe the tables.

ixoy

One of the pizza slice joints on Talbot Street: "Chef" outside has a cigarette, then goes back in and starts preparing pizzas without washing his hands.

admiralofthefleet

to many to mention in my 15 years in the industry

JCabot

I was in a restaurant once and someone puked on the table.

reginald

5 second rule ?

Remmy

Know that slightly sticky sensation underfoot in the seedier kinds of nightclubs from spilled drinks? Yeah that combined with luke warm food and a waitress who acted as if serving us was such an inconvenience to her day.

Rigol

JCabot wrote: »

Fight Club

Peeing in the lobster bisque and farting on the meringues

......and the mushroom soup.
well the less said the better.

TheUsual

Celery.

Pottler

Most disgusting thing in restaurants? A lot of the work we do is dirty, so often, getting grub, it may well be me.

WoollyRedHat

Not in Ireland, but over in a restaurant in America, where one of my mates was working, he was told that one of the waiters walked into the kitchen one of the days to the chef rubbing his balls over some nicely cooked burgers...

Deskjockey

Lando Griffin wrote: »

I will take the what not part of this question.

Our Icecream man " from hell" refuses to wear gloves when serving the children and takes money from them but never has gloves.
He is also the most ignorant man alive, often driving by children waithin for some ice cream.
Well the estate got together and begone with him the piece of s****hit.

How did the estate get "begone" of him. Must be hard to stop someone driving in with an ice cream van into an estate?

Our guy comes in at 8:30 when kids are gone to bed and puts the music on- very annoying indeed!!

TheUsual

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Not in Ireland, but over in a restaurant in America, where one of my mates was working, he was told that one of the waiters walked into the kitchen one of the days to the chef rubbing his balls over some nicely cooked burgers...

The waiters balls or the chefs ?

irish son

The most digusting thing I ever saw in a restaurant was when I brought my wife once.

God she's ugly.

Conmaicne Mara

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Not in Ireland, but over in a restaurant in America, where one of my mates was working, he was told that one of the waiters walked into the kitchen one of the days to the chef rubbing his balls over some nicely cooked burgers...

He must work in Galway now. I got a pubic hair in food in Eddie Rockets in town. Complained, no one seemed to think it was a big deal, walked out of the place.

Qualitymark

Was in a pub in Rathgar working away quietly one day in a corner and the staff forgot I was there. And they were putting back all the little pots of tomato relish that had been served to the tables into a giant jar.
Guess where I won't be eating.

Light Switch

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Waiters with grubby looking hands.
Waiters walking outside to smoke in full view of everyone & then walking back in stinking of smoke.
I once returned a meal in a restaurant because it had hair on it. It was sent back out with the food rearranged & when I poked around I found the hair again. I got up, told the manager the place should be shut down, refused to pay for what I got & the next day I rang the food safety crowd.
They didn't shut it down because they couldn't find anything but it did close three months later.

Off Topic, But why striped socks? And horizontal or vertical stripes?

Wacker The Attacker

irish son wrote: »

The most digusting thing I ever saw in a restaurant was when I brought my wife once.

God she's ugly.

I take it you didnt eat her

Light Switch

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

I take it you didnt eat her

There's something fishy going on here.....

SerialComplaint

Anyone remember the restaurant scene in Trainspotting, the book?

Insect Overlord

I've heard awful things about the kitchen in a certain pizza restaurant in South Dublin. Oven not cleaned in years. Soap dispensers covered in grease, tomato sauce, general dirt. Glass panels on fridge doors covered in a film of dirt so thick you can't see the inside.

Haven't eaten there myself, but I'm very familiar with another restaurant in the same franchise so I'd trust the source of the info.

TheUsual

Insect Overlord wrote: »

I've heard awful things about the kitchen in a certain pizza restaurant in South Dublin. Oven not cleaned in years. Soap dispensers covered in grease, tomato sauce, general dirt. Glass panels on fridge doors covered in a film of dirt so thick you can't see the inside.

De HORROR !!!!!! :eek:

starbelgrade

I once saw a massive rat running on the floor behind the counter in McDonalds on Dam Straat in Amsterdam when I was waiting for a burger.

I thought I'd smoked too much, until I saw another one saunter behind the chip pans.

No idea how the staff worked there - the place was infected.

admiralofthefleet

TheUsual wrote: »

De HORROR !!!!!! :eek:

could have been a pizza place in dolphins barn or tallaght, both of which are in south Dublin

girl in the striped socks

Light Switch wrote: »

Off Topic, But why striped socks? And horizontal or vertical stripes?

The evening I registered I was lying on the couch desperately trying to think of a username. I was hoping to pick something really cool but realistically I knew I couldn't pull it off, even as an anonymous poster on an Internet forum.
When I think about things I tend to rub my feet together, similar to a fly that rubs his front legs together almost as if he's scheming to take over the world a la pinky & the brain.
Anyway as I was having a little foot on foot rub I noticed I was wearing striped socks. At that very same time the boy in the striped pyjamas was on.
It really was a lightbulb moment. Granted I'm not a boy & I wasn't wearing pyjamas so I adjusted it accordingly & girl in the striped socks was born.
The rest, as they say, is history.

Collibosher

Vaguely related, but I once had to collect some equipment from a butcher's shop in west Dublin.

The public part of the shop was like any normal butchers, with counters of meat all nicely displayed etc. The rear of the shop, and enclosed back yard were like something from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre :eek:

The floor was covered with meat in various states of decay. One of the things I was to collect was a machine that sliced up the joints of meat into rashers. It was still being used when I arrived, and was literally covered in maggots. There were rats in the back yard and I don't think I've ever seen so many flies!

The shop was in a small parade of four or five others, how they didn't complain about the stench and flies etc I'll never know.

The locals must have become immune to the bacteria, as the place had a queue out the door the hour or so I spent there.

WoollyRedHat

TheUsual wrote: »

The waiters balls or the chefs ?

The chefs balls, his own ingredients.

LETHAL LADY

Went to the local chinese for myself and my twin sisters birthday (not through choice but tis either that or supermacs in my town).
The kitchens are right beside the toilets and when I went to the ladies room the kitchen door was wide open.
There was one lad stir-frying with a fag in his mouth and another lad clearing the mucus from his nose and throat in the loudest most disgusting manner.
Once I heard the spit I ran to the toilets and called for huey on the big white telephone.
Never again, never again.

fox_1973

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

to many to mention in my 15 years in the industry

snap

tdv123

I threw a fork at someone if that counts.

areyawell

I know someone who worked in a restaurant and they were running low on supplies so they reused some of the stuff off other peoples plates. If people had soup they reused the brown bread if person didn't use it. Scraped leftover spuds and vegetables off peoples plates. Added leftover spagethi bolognase back to the pot, reused sandwiches etc. It happened on numerous occasions.

Capt'n Midnight

You go to a foreign pizzeria where they knead the dough and have all the ingredients at the counter so you can see most stuff going on.

Then you come back here and you realise you have no idea what's going on.

cue "sneezeburger"

Capt'n Midnight

Deskjockey wrote: »

How did the estate get "begone" of him. Must be hard to stop someone driving in with an ice cream van into an estate?

Our guy comes in at 8:30 when kids are gone to bed and puts the music on- very annoying indeed!!

just tell the kids that he only plays the music to let people know he's run out of ice cream :pac:

B.A._Baracus

areyawell wrote: »

I know someone who worked in a restaurant and they were running low on supplies so they reused some of the stuff off other peoples plates. If people had soup they reused the brown bread if person didn't use it. Scraped leftover spuds and vegetables off peoples plates. Added leftover spagethi bolognase back to the pot, reused sandwiches etc. It happened on numerous occasions.

I honestly question if the full house don't do this (its all you can eat)

kowloon

I remember reading stories about Chinese food practices. The story that stuck out was some crowd skimming oil off the contents of a sewer (it floats on top) and using it for cooking.

Just looked it up

More Chinese food scandals

I know it's a bit off topic, but I wonder how much of it gets over here. I'm also sure there are plenty of dodgy practices here that we know nothing about.

Food counterfeiting, things like painting bad meat, was a huge problem before refrigeration. At least we have safety inspections and a system now, even if it's not perfect.

Chinasea

I think it is really out of order when people on open forums go over the top when giving out about a particular restaurant. Wouldn't it be a bit more proactive to go straight to the propertior and give them your feedback rather than hiding behind a keyboard and launching an open attack at them from there and potentially ruining their business, without them having a chance to rectify what your grievances are.

The urban myth too of the Chinese restaurant selling the sea gull instead of the chicken is still unbelively doing the rounds too. How much, how long would it take, and how the fu*k in the first place could you round up all those sea gulls.

UCDVet

People's expectations are way too high, IMHO.

Markcheese

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Not in Ireland, but over in a restaurant in America, where one of my mates was working, he was told that one of the waiters walked into the kitchen one of the days to the chef rubbing his balls over some nicely cooked burgers...

Why would anyone want to cover their ball in hot fat,

mikemac1

No service charge normally

But for parties of 6 and upward they charge a service charge

Robbin cnuts

You give a restaurant a lot of business and custom and instead of getting a discount instead they charge you more

Makes no sense, it's like they don't want large groups at all

SerialComplaint

SerialComplaint wrote: »

Anyone remember the restaurant scene in Trainspotting, the book?

I was on the iPhone last night, so I didn't fancy typing out the full story. Suffice to say that it involves a pi$$ed off waitress - Kelly was the character's name - who got increasingly pi$$ed off with a group of mouthy, pushy male customers, so she polluted their drinks, their tomato soup and their chocolate mousse. I'll leave it to your imagination to work out the details.