what is the most fucked up thing you have seen working i back of the house? Food handling/prep, drug/substance abuse, fights, retarded management skills/calls, whatever else you can think of that absolutely blew your mind
>>22027751>working at a pizza chain in hs>typical high schools, druggies, and burnouts>normally not to bad>one day the 30 year old comes in clearly still drunk>keeps messing up orders>at one point he pees in the sauce>some pizzas went out before we found out
>>22027756Were the customers satisfied?
>>22027756My mom back in the 80s shaved part of her finger off in the cabbage slicer making coleslaw at some fats food joint (I want to say dairy queen) and they did not throw out the coleslaw, so I habeeb it
>>22027751Pretty mild but the bottom of the ice maker when it hadn’t been cleaned for a while, super gross
>>22027751I worked at some seedy hotdog stand when I was 16 at the carnival here is some wild stuff>Owner rubbing his balls and putting his hand in the onions, said it adds to the onion flavor>Dead rats in the hot dog bath>Other carnies sneezing into cotton candy>Some guy spat his dip into the pickled eggs jar>"Strong boy" aka a middle age tard straight up eating live birds
>>22028099We had dead rats in oil fryer pump or something way back in the day. I still eat out.
this reminds me of working in a kroger deli for 3 months. worst job I ever had and was so happy to quit. the customers were the goddamn weirdest people and my coworkers were all just as bizarre. the 2 I liked the most were the 70+ chinese grandma that would act like she is my grandma and made me food she stole from kroger (based) and a 50ish former methhead prostitute that sliced her hand on the deli slicer. she was always just very nice to me and they actually drug tested her for that and she failed apparently so she was fired. one of my daily jobs was making the rotisserie chickens in that giant commercial oven. one huge shipment of raw chicken were left outside the walk in for too long, I open it, they all stink and some actually have green spots. retarded mexican manager just tells me to cook them anyway. so i dont argue, cook them then just throw them all away when she leaves. i tore open one of the green chickens after it was cooked to see how it looks and honestly I couldnt tell. it probably really was ok to eat, which is unsettling but I threw them all away anyways.
As someone who used to work in a meat packing plant, if you believe you're being clever by thinking "restaurants are all disgusting, I'm just going to cook at home instead so I'm safe" then I have bad news for you. Literally everything you eat is tainted in one way or another.
Nothing will ever beat the story of that guy who worked in a fast food joint where his retarded co-worker, after getting raped by the manager, plunged his head into the deep fryer, killing himself. Lemme see if I can find it on warosu
>>22028321https://warosu.org/ck/thread/19122209#p19128469
Working at a sushi restaurant we'd use days old fish, like on the border of disgusting. The head chef is a coke head and the owner is a retard so they could never figure out when to get fish delivery. We've also ran out of tuna loin and had to go get the ahi saku block from giant and then serve it as sushi at 24 dollars a roll lmao.
>>22028296>if you believe you're being clever by thinking "restaurants are all disgusting, I'm just going to cook at home instead so I'm safe"No one ever thought this.Home cooking has always been about saving money, and if you're skilled enough, better food.
>>22028321>>22028324Thanks for giving me nightmares i guess
OP here, surprisingly enough nothing really comes to mind even after 17 years in the industry, maybe i blocked it out....besides one time seeing blatent cross contamination.Maybe I should have added more to the title of this post. to make it more interesting story wise.One time I tripped my fucking balls off on acid on my day off, a buddy was in town i hadnt seen in a long time. We ended up staying up all night long, which sucked because i knew i had to work the next day. I thought it would be easy since i was on salad station. I go into work, on no sleep and still feeling the acid....dude, I had to fucking train a new guy. I couldn't fucking believe it. what are the odds. Luckily it wasnt a crazy busy shift. I'll tell you this, i'll never forget the feeling of getting off that shift and driving home with the windows open and the cool breeze on my face thinking, holy shit....i actually made it through that and nobody had a clue.
>>22028958oh shit actually just after posting this more stuff is coming to mind.Hear the dishwasher scream, walk back and hes grabbing his arm, see blood on the floor. I'm like wtf is going on he releases his hand and a solid stream of blood starting squirting out of his arm onto the floor. I just say to go to the ER. My boss got pissed at my because of insurance or whatever, ends up the dude just waited in the lobby for a few hours then went home A steak knife stabbed his arm in the soapy water.At the same restaurant, the owner/chef and wife just had a new born and just opened the restaurant....it was a open kitchen. She was fucking nuts! Always arguing with him but he kept calm and would jsut try to keep her calm. she would break plates, throw shit, kick him...it was insane. Then he ende up cheating on her with a server with huge tits, she caught him in the act. It was game over after that, and it got even worse, cops restraining orders her showing up crying oh and all in front of customers....needless to say the restaurant closed down after about 2 years
>>22028296>Literally everything you eat is tainted in one way or another.>one wayWell, there you go, let's keep it down to one or two, instead of getting to eight or nine.
>>22028971Semper fry
In high school I worked at a pizza restaurant that people raved about. It was expensive, one large pizza was like $35. $20 pastas. Cakes out of a box were like $10 a slice. Other than bulk stuff like flour and tomatoes they got from sysco it was low quality, canned great-value tier ingredients. Some of it was literally great value. Great value canned tomatoes, great value spices, etc. On top of that the store in general was just disgusting but somehow we still got high marks on the inspections. I stopped ordering pizza when I realized how easy it is to make at home and how literally every pizza restaurant is staffed by the same methadone clinic people I worked with.
My brother worked at a pizza place and caught the owner doing a line of coke, he didn't out the guy to anyone else but me because the food was really good and the guy was cool outside of his bad habit.
I saw a prep cook getting sucked off by a dishwasher. I walked into the walk-in just as he was blowing his load and he stared at me moaning the whole time.
Dishwasher left his shift early to go kill himself. Debatable if this counts since he didn't do it on the restaurant property.
>>22029560reminds me of a local joint that was rife with controversy, not paying workers, randomly cancelling orders, etc. turns out the owner was addicted to heroin and was funneling the pizza money into that. I had it once and it was excellent, to this day the best toppings Ive had on any pizza, it was very expensive though>be new in college town>check the reddit every now and then to see stuff to do>see some vague crashout title>its the pizza owner>ranting about his pizza is the BEST in town>trashes other local joints>says if you order a pizza and say you saw the reddit post itll be half off>call up for half off pizza>order pizza>at the end say "Im from reddit">silence on the phone>"okay?">panic and explain the post>worker leaves and comes back and says the owner didnt tell anyone about the post or discount>still get it half off
>>22027751>working you give /ck/ too much credit
>>22029683Based drugged-out redditor knowing his gay posts shouldn’t be taken seriously
>>22027751Back when I worked at Burger King some dipshit pulled a chicken patty out of the fryer with tongs and held it upright with his arm in a 90 degree angle. The oil from the fryer gets under the breading and inflates it when it is cooking. So when plucked it out like that, held it at that angle, and squeezed it with the tongs, all the oil we were supposed to eat out drained all over his arm. He effectively melted his inner elbow and can't bend is arm out fully and it painfully stretches his skin if he bends it too much.
