Restaurant horror stories, sick stuff...

[Celtic Jobber 0]

Has anyone here ever worked at a fast food place or restaurant and witnessed food tampering? If so, post your horror stories.

 

Here's a few of mine:

 

*In highschool I worked at Burger King and it was common knowledge someone had peed in the pickle jar.

 

*Last month, I was eating a meat lover's pizza from Pizza Hut and found something that felt and looked suspiciously like a worm. I'm still kicking myself for not filing a lawsuit...

 

*One of my friends works at a pharmacy that also serves hamburgers, fries, stuff like that. She told me that the guy who fries the burgers, picks raw hamburger meat out from under his finger nails and mixes it into the next patty.

 

I found these on another message board I go to... After all this, I never want to eat out again.

 

 

**As a former cook for O'Charley's, Olive Garden and Outback steakhouse, let me give you folks a peice of advice. Don't come in five minutes before the place closes. Admit defeat and go to Taco Bell. They are open till 2 a.m. Whatever they do to your food there won't be half as bad as a cook who has to fire up the grill he's just cleaned and shut down. One case in particular. A party of eight calls in to ask when we close. They are told 11 p.m. They show up at 10:57. Why? Because they want the place to themselves. I won't go into details here, but let's just say certain food items for this party rested in the BUTT crack of a fellow employee for a couple of seconds.

 

**Being rude to your waiter is the best way to get "tampered" food. Also, showing up late will get you crappy, rapidly prepared food, cause the cooks are trying to get outta there. Other that that, sometimes the waiter will come back and say something like, "The guy out there wanted me to tell you the food was great! Best he's ever had here!" And you get kind of a feeling of pride, even if you hate the job. Most cases the food your eating is safe though.

 

**While I'm not a cook (I'm a dishwasher), I can still tell you a couple of stories of food tampering.

 

One of my friends used to work at Arby's as a cashier and...cook? I don't know what the title is over there. He'd work there high as a kite sometimes. However, even though he was stoned, he somehow had the ability to remember anyone and everyone who came in the store. If he hated you, your sandwich more than likely got dropped on the floor at least once, or if you were really lucky, he slapped his cock on it a few times.

 

I'm currently a dishwasher at Friendly's. Over the summer, we don't close until midnight, but the cook(s) on duty usually like to have the kitchen closed by 11:30, or even 11 on a really slow night. One evening, one of the cooks decided to close up early, and he started handing me the usual crap, the fries, chicken fingers, and the bacon. All this stuff has to get thrown away and their containers washed so they can be ready for the next day. Anyway, so before he can fully close the kitchen, some customers come in and order something off the menu that needs bacon and fries (more than likely a hamburger). But of course, he doesn't have any more bacon or fries. There's only one thing left for him to do: pick it out of the trash. So he does, and the poor, unsuspecting customers...yeah. I felt bad for them, because they really did nothing to deserve it.

 

**I wasn't a cook, I was a waiter, but towards the end of my year-and-a-half tenure there, I *did* start getting even with some a-hole regulars. Mainly, what I would do, is I'd run into the bathroom just before the order was ready, start touching my bare ass and "coin purse" for several seconds, go back without washing my hands, HANDLE the food, and happily serve it. One such incident, and I make no apologies for it, to one idiot customer who kept keeping me way later than usual for a lousy tip, I pissed in my hand and handled the food with it! (evil grin)

 

**I never worked at a restaurant but I worked at a pharmacy and a video store. I never got tipped but I still sympathize with the cooks and waiters. Some people are *beep* and should get whats coming to them. Its that simple. In fact, customers should be hastled just for the fact that they're being fucked on their own free time when the people who are working for them aren't. I mean if youre going to a restaurant, youre there to have a good time, not be a bitch. So what the fuck? The only time someone should be uptight is when theyre under stress and if youre eating luxuriously at a restaurant, and i say luxurious cause I am a starving college student, then you should be as chill as fuck. Anyone who disagrees with me should confront your parents about how you were raised and asked to be spanked for being an idiot.

 

** I love the restaurant business. I've seen onions and chicken hauled out of the garbage at the last minute. I've seen countless eggrolls dropped on the ground and picked back up within 5 seconds (we can move fast when we have to, a dinner rush is proof enough of that). I've seen a cook get really pissed off at a server and just put off making the order for half an hour and then walk out, happy as a clam. Ooh, that was a bad night. STAND TALL, MY FELLOW COOKS! HOLD THE LINE! SPIT IN THE FOOD! SHOW THE POMPOUS BASTARDS OF SOCIETY WHOSE BOSS!

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

The worst I ever did was put detergent in people's food at BK...

[gWIL 0]

This stuff really doesn't happen where I work. We just throw food at each other and sexually harass the waitresses.

[CanadianChick 0]

At the resturant I worked at for about a second, I had to serve alcohol and (attempt) to make some of the drinks. Let's just say a lady's Paralyzer had curdled milk in it, and we just didn't give a fuck because she was a bitch and who goes to a family restuarant to order that? I think that was my last shift before I quit.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Not to downplay any of your incidents, but by the time this thread gets to a second page, no one will be disgusted.

 

There's only so much scatalogical stuff that can be done to food.

 

Although I used to be a janitor, so it's pretty tough to gross me out.

[Guest Fook]

I've never worked in a restaurant, but I have friends and siblings who have.

 

After hearing some of their horror stories, I now live by the following credo:

 

"Never ever try to fuck with the people who control your food"

[Angel_Grace_Blue 0]

You know, it's a damn good thing doctors aren't this fucking touchy.

 

"The guy was a dick, so I pissed in his chest during open-heart surgery."

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I was working a breakfast shift at McDonalds back in the day and while preparing the eggs for the McMuffins I cracked an egg and it was about half-yolk/half blood. Some lucky customer that morning got served a dried blood McMuffin.

[Spaceman Spiff 0]

This stuff really doesn't happen where I work. We just throw food at each other and sexually harass the waitresses.

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I worked in a restaurant back in high school & college, and that's pretty much what we did, too. I never saw anyone tamper w/ outgoing food, nor did I ever have the urge to do so.

[Cran Da Maniac 0]

I used to work at a DQ that had a kitchen, for burgers and stuff. My boss was a dick who'd want us out of there right when the store closed at 10, so that means we'd have to start cleaning at 9, shut down by 9:30-9:45. Well this woman comes in and orders a double cheeseburger. I serve her the last 2 patties that we have. She came back with it b/c she didn't want mustard on it. The best solution we could figure out was to wash the burgers, and remake it. That's about the nastiest story I've experienced working in fast food

[Jericholic82 0]

I have no confirmation but it in High School I was told that kids spit in the ketchup cans (they used to have two giant cans of ketchup out and you would use like a ladle to put some on your fries and it was wide open so its possible-sadly I used the ketchup on more than one occasion )

 

I always try to be nice at restaurants, even when the service is slow or if something is wrong with my order.

 

Once our waitress completely lost contorl of our large pizza and it went flying towards the wall and stuck against it. it was pretty funny seeing it happen.

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

One time I served a table a bowl of broccoli and cheese soup. For those who have never seen it, the soup is a yellow-ish color. I received a complaint from the guy eating the soup, and found that an entire yellow finger of a latex glove from one of the cooks was in the soup.

[AboveAverage484 0]

I got one of those pieces of paper that seperates the cheese on my hamburger one time at a steak house. I got three free meals out of it, however so it was worth it.

[The Czech Republic 0]

I'm impossibly nice to people who make food for me, because I live in fear. Constant unwavering fear

[Markme123 0]

I'm a swing manager at (an apparently very professional) McDonalds and I gotta say: This shit is sick. I can't imagine doing anything like that.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

You know, it's a damn good thing doctors aren't this fucking touchy.

 

"The guy was a dick, so I pissed in his chest during open-heart surgery."

 

Agreed, most of the people who say and do this shit are retarded. I mean seriously, someone was mean to you so you decide to fuck up the order they are paying money for? It's part of your job to deal with people, I don't see why you have to be so sensitive when you know some will be assholes.

 

Slapping a cock in a burger is not justification for them mouthing off to you. Do you want to be like Michael Jackson so much where you too stick your cock in eight year old buns? Skeet skeet skeet.

[The Niggardly King 0]

The salary has a lot to do with it.

[the max 0]

So get another job.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Or be nice to the person making your meal.

 

You know, it's a damn good thing doctors aren't this fucking touchy.

 

"The guy was a dick, so I pissed in his chest during open-heart surgery."

 

LOL -- all they would have to do is make sure you don't wake up after the operation. I'd last about 12 minutes in the medical field...

Edited December 9, 2005 by kkktookmybabyaway

[the max 0]

I get accused all the time of being an asshole to people when the only problem was that I was distracted and short with someone. So because I'm distracted by something at work and don't gleefully smile at the dumbfuck making my sandwich at BK, this means that I deserve to get something done to my food? Poor reasoning.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

To me, that's not worth getting your food messed with. When I worked fast-food, you had to earn my tampering.

 

And I don't interact with clerks at all. I just stand there, shutup, zone out and wait for my order...

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I dont mess around with the old folks food (although there are a couple of them have a habit of pissing me off) cause, well..they could wind up dead easier..

 

I've done some nasty stuff though..

[Damaramu 0]

I've worked at many many places that serve food and I've never seen food tampered with in any way. Usually the manager is hanging around anyway so nobody could do anything to food if they wanted to.

 

Also at most fast food restaraunts where they prepare the food is in plain view of the counter so it's not like they can really do anything horrible to it b/c you're watching them the whole time.

[The Czech Republic 0]

SHOW THE POMPOUS BASTARDS OF SOCIETY WHOSE BOSS!

*who is

[Vyce 0]

I was working a breakfast shift at McDonalds back in the day and while preparing the eggs for the McMuffins I cracked an egg and it was about half-yolk/half blood. Some lucky customer that morning got served a dried blood McMuffin.

 

That sounds delicious, actually.

[Twisted Intestine 0]

I was working a breakfast shift at McDonalds back in the day and while preparing the eggs for the McMuffins I cracked an egg and it was about half-yolk/half blood. Some lucky customer that morning got served a dried blood McMuffin.

 

That sounds delicious, actually.

 

A friend of mine works as a cook there, and that happens to him all the time -- but he emptys it and cracks open a new egg you lazy bastard. One time he cracked an egg open and there was a chick fetus...

[The Amazing Rando 0]

I was working a breakfast shift at McDonalds back in the day and while preparing the eggs for the McMuffins I cracked an egg and it was about half-yolk/half blood. Some lucky customer that morning got served a dried blood McMuffin.

 

That sounds delicious, actually.

 

A friend of mine works as a cook there, and that happens to him all the time -- but he emptys it and cracks open a new egg you lazy bastard. One time he cracked an egg open and there was a chick fetus...

 

And it said "Scott....??" and then gave him a seaweed bouquet.

[Ravenbomb 0]

in elementary school one time I found a dead bee in my soup

[Twisted Intestine 0]

A hornet got into my pop once. Stang my tounge. Ouch.