Is your favourite restaurant safe to eat at?

[Sundancefisher]

How often do you check?

https://ephisahs.microsoftcrmportals...ntinspections/

[DirtShooter]

Lol one of my favorite pizza places no one has food handling training, not even the owner at the time of Oct 21, 2020

Surprisingly the local Pizza Hut has zero violations.

Another in the town I live in has quite a few yet people rave about the place. My wife and I won't eat there and this reinforces that lol.

Smoke and Ash BBQ, one of my favorite places, no violations.

Great post OP, sure is interesting some of the violations places get.... Yuck

[Brankon]

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[calgarychef]

I haven’t looked at the list, you know as a “pro” is disgusts me that not every damned employee in a restaurant isn’t required to have advanced food handling knowledge.

I’m so bloody careful about food handling but I’ve been in the back of some establishments that I’d never eat a single thing in. As a customer I notice things that you wouldn’t with the “untrained” eye, I’ve never been in a single establishment that doesn’t do something “improperly.” It’s the little things adding up accompanied by time and temperature that cause problems.

You know what though? Most of us get food poisoning from home, we do it to ourselves.

[vinny]

If you’ve ever had to do any maintenance work in a restaurant kitchen, you’d have a hard time eating in one again! 🤢🤣

[tri777]

I invite people who must eat at fast food places to not just walk in and order, observe the guy who
prepares the food (in an unnoticeable way). Just over a week ago, watched as the food prep guy put lettuce
on a burger, then proceeded wiping both palms on the sides of his fancy, shiny, black company pants, picked up the burger
& placed it into the take out bag with napkins & the customer was none the wiser..imagine this guy
doing this all dam day? Needless to say, I bolted out the door disgusted.

In these covidian times, I keep hearing over PA store speakers: "Wash your hands", I say: "Watch their hands"!

[Mavrick]

Gave that up years ago prices got to high, found the food was not good, service and wait times drove me out of my mind, and with the noise in a restaurant couldn’t talk to someone if i wanted to. That and the fact we raise our own beef, grow our own garden and hunt and fish. Table fair at home is much better and prepared in a clean kitchen by our hands.

[Talking moose]

Originally Posted by vinny

If you’ve ever had to do any maintenance work in a restaurant kitchen, you’d have a hard time eating in one again! 🤢🤣

Yup. Did all the air ducts in an east side Mario’s one time after hours. Really turned me off. Surprisingly my boss said it was one of the better ones.

[ghostguy6]

You think the restaurants are bad, check out the butcher shops. For those hunters in Strathcona County who don't process their own meat :
Butcher Block
https://ephisahs.microsoftcrmportals...0-000d3af49c44
Charlie's Place ( former Butcher Bus)
https://ephisahs.microsoftcrmportals...e-000d3af49373

[Stinky Buffalo]

Originally Posted by vinny

If you’ve ever had to do any maintenance work in a restaurant kitchen, you’d have a hard time eating in one again! 🤢🤣

Amen to that.

Had a friend who worked for a company that put in the computer systems (kind of like the Squirrel computers).

The stories he told of the kitchen conditions were awful. Like the cooks having bets on how long the mice and roaches would live after being stuck to the glue traps.

I did enjoy eating out with him, though. He knew exactly which restaurants were good to eat at, and from time to time, we would get a free dinner if he did a quick maintenance/debug on their systems.

[Grizzly Adams1]

Originally Posted by vinny

If you’ve ever had to do any maintenance work in a restaurant kitchen, you’d have a hard time eating in one again! 🤢🤣

It does tend to make you selective, especially Chinese ones.

Grizz

[Glion]

Originally Posted by DirtShooter

Lol one of my favorite pizza places no one has food handling training, not even the owner at the time of Oct 21, 2020

Surprisingly the local Pizza Hut has zero violations.

Another in the town I live in has quite a few yet people rave about the place. My wife and I won't eat there and this reinforces that lol.

Smoke and Ash BBQ, one of my favorite places, no violations.

Great post OP, sure is interesting some of the violations places get.... Yuck

Smoke and Ash is excellent, also they are great for takeout for large groups.

[DirtShooter]

Originally Posted by Glion

Smoke and Ash is excellent, also they are great for takeout for large groups.

Oh yeah, when I was working in the west end I used to drive to acheson and pick up multiple orders weekly. My wife loves the place too, we were ****ed when someone narc'd on kelly (owner) for not wearing a mask and so they either had to face fines or reduce hours so he could work without his lung condition acting up (mask all day)

[jeprli]

Germophobia is strong with us! Makes one wonder how the world survived up to this point in time, the age of bliss. What were they thinking all those centuries....

Just had some moose tartar, from a 7 day hung moldy moose with a quail egg, all raw with a pinch of sea salt and fresh wasabi. Yum.....just waiting for cwd results to come in from lab.

[Flyingfisher]

Originally Posted by DirtShooter

Oh yeah, when I was working in the west end I used to drive to acheson and pick up multiple orders weekly. My wife loves the place too, we were ****ed when someone narc'd on kelly (owner) for not wearing a mask and so they either had to face fines or reduce hours so he could work without his lung condition acting up (mask all day)

Well, that explains their hours. I do concur the food is great, the people working there seem like genuine BBQ aficionados!

[sdb8440]

Well I have a variety of tales to tell, especially since my GF and her girls are Chinese and once we started to live together, I shuddered every day for months over food handling. It' better now, but there's some days when the niece is cooking and "I am not really hungry" lol.

Dad sold poultry for Canada packers way back so I did some sales calls with him. I remember the time in the back of the Chinese take out, a foil roasting pan full of grease, cook runs up takes a big scoop and drops it into the wok...didn't bother to knock the flies out...didn't eat Chinese for a decade after that.

Then I worked summers at intercon/mitchell's meats making sausage from the trim in the grinding room. Oh wait, half that grain shovel full went on the floor? No problem just scoop it up and toss it in the auger tube, it's being cooked anyway.

Also delivered linens to a variety of places, some you could eat off the floor, some i didn't want my boots to touch the floor. One superstore in the north was the most disgusting place I had ever been in my life...the smell, the mess the people...honestly the meat plants were better. Another location down the road was so spotless it felt like no one used the loading dock, yet it was a far busier location. Management is everything!

[Au revoir, Gopher]

Originally Posted by Sundancefisher

How often do you check?

https://ephisahs.microsoftcrmportals...ntinspections/

So has anybody else looked at the URL and gone 'Whisky Tango Foxtrot???'?

Why exactly is this AHS information being hosted on a MicroSoft website?

ARG

[trigger7mm]

I’ve done electrical work before in restaurant kitchens that would make you gag. I worked in a Chinese restaurant in Edmonton once that you could practically stick your linesman pliers to the wall, it was so greasy and filthy in there.

[58thecat]

I think ya gotta get a little grim and stuff in a meal....keeps your body on a even keel.

[RACKER]

You never know what goes on in the kitchens when you are sitting at the table.When you are at home there are no reasons not to keep prep areas and food clean.That being said since covid I see people going overboard on the sanitizing.Ive always said a little dirt never hurts you.Hard to build up immunity when everything you touch is getting bleached.When it comes to eating out you cannot control what you dont see.Im sure there isnt a single food establishment where something wasnt properly done to clean/prepare food.The only way to eliminate uncertainty is to never eat out again im sure nobody will ever do that.

[Sundancefisher]

Originally Posted by RACKER

You never know what goes on in the kitchens when you are sitting at the table.When you are at home there are no reasons not to keep prep areas and food clean.That being said since covid I see people going overboard on the sanitizing.Ive always said a little dirt never hurts you.Hard to build up immunity when everything you touch is getting bleached.When it comes to eating out you cannot control what you dont see.Im sure there isnt a single food establishment where something wasnt properly done to clean/prepare food.The only way to eliminate uncertainty is to never eat out again im sure nobody will ever do that.

As a kid working at DQ we were very good at washing hands and cleaning. I would clean equipment hard every night. Re-rinse hoses for ice cream well every morning.

All food in the freezer or heater or served fast.

In fact any mistakes made I would find someone who looked like they could use extra and just gave it to them instead of throwing out. If a cone was made by accident I would give it to a child leaving the restaurant.

No wasted food.

We did have one incident of a person who was about to be fired caught urinating in the pickle bucket. I watched as supervisor dumped it out.

I have heard horror stories at fast food places lacking adult supervision

Hope it’s rare to have a bad apple working there these days.