Worst Things Found In Restaurants (Health Inspector Stories r/AskReddit)

health inspectors of Reddit what's the worst violation you've ever seen former inspector here I once discovered a rat infestation in the kitchen of a hospital they asked me if I could prove my suspicions I pointed out the numerous foodstuffs with 1-2 inches circular holes chewed in them but they didn't seem convinced I showed them the trail of droppings and footprints coming and going from a hole in the floor drain but they didn't seem convinced I showed them the three dead rats I had discovered under end-around equipment I think they began to believe me at that point used to have a job working as an inspector for storage tanks at places like dairies and factories went to a Cheesecake Factory wants to test her milk storage tank it had just been cleaned and was being prepped to be filled with a tanker full of milk I noticed the floor of the tank was covered in Bleach it turned out the floor manager couldn't be asked to spend the time sucking out the rest of the cleaning fluid used in the cleaning process and as standard just filled the tank with milk on top of a dozen gallons of bleach his theory was that there was enough milk to dilute the bleach to acceptable consumption levels by wrote a report and he was promptly fired worked in an restaurant sitting in the office one day I hear an awful squeaking shrieking noise took me a little while to find the source source turned out to be a mouse stuck in some old spilled pancake syrup under a storage shelf being eaten alive by the mouse stuck next to it did food safety inspection at a large slaughterhouse for a while one day I came round a corner and one of the workers who was running service for the butchers had dropped a ham on the floor so the proper way to handle this for him was to leave it there and call for a inspector to come pick it up take it out to carve off any contaminated bits and rinse it in boiling water now it's relatively often happened meat was dropped on the floor it's just very very hard to avoid it when running in a factory setting with human labour so this was common what was uncommon was what the guy did first he tried catching it as it fell which would have been fine no contact with any surface and he could have just thrown it back into the tub it had fallen out off he didn't catch though and it landed on the floor thinking that no one was watching he tried picking it up and dropped it again he did this three times so first and foremost he's not supposed to be touching anything that's been on the floor it cross contaminates his hands and he has nowhere to put the contaminated product anyway but he did this three times and dropped it three times freshly carved hands can be slippery when wearing vinyl gloves he then out of pure frustration in awe answered the unwieldy ham dropped down on all fours and proceeded to pick up the raw freshly cut six kilo ham by his teeth stood up ham dangling from his chompers and dropped it into the tub with around six hundred kilograms of products and drove off with a tub for processing he was fired a few minutes after that and the entire tub of product discarded , he was fired a few minutes after that and the entire tub of products discarded there is a God not a health inspector but a Chinese buffet near me was closed down because it got a zero stroke five in its inspection the staff just got up and left locked the door never went back all the food was still out and everything a week later a man was walking his dog past said Chinese buffet and heard a loud buzzing noise looked through the window to see hundreds of thousands of flies that had taken over the building as their new home was so bad that Pizza Hut next door had to close to God dang get a flame thrower in there my uncle is a health inspector in rural Australia he got several complaints about a fish and chips shop in a small town in Victoria with reports of it being a bit Crotty and people getting chunks of hair in there hot chips so he rocks up one day and announced on a blazing hot day in the middle of summer and the owner grates him and shows him around wearing a white singlet top with sweat patches under the arms short shorts and no shoes this guy's body was covered in hair not just on his arms and chest but his back and neck were like a werewolf clearly this must be the source of the hair in the chips my uncle decides to make a tactful comment about having wear appropriate clothes when working so as to protect against hot oil burns after seeing the property and giving a few basic suggestions the only other thing he notices that needs immediate attention as the deep-fryer itself the oil is old and filthy and likely full of this guy's hair so he orders the bloke to drain it out right then and there the owner does so and at the bottom of the oil that is a dead deep fried and crispy cat totally unfazed the owner simply said oh that's where my cat went turns out a few months previously the shop was having a rodent problem so the owner bought in a cat to catch them he thought the cat escaped overnight and ran away no looks like little fluffy drownded the deep frying oil and mr. chippy has been frying him up over and over and over again ever since the clumps of hair locals were complaining about weren't from the half-man half-wolf owner but the fur and flesh of the dead cat pools that have absolutely no chlorine pedicure tubs filters that have never been changed all of their disinfectants were expired a restaurant that refused to clean up pest fesses urine refused to properly cool foods and refused to propyl Irae heat foods the kitchen had exposed wood everywhere well it would be exposed if there wasn't a thick layer of grease and no sanitizer my dad was one is now retired of everything I ever heard to jump out he noted the trays at a Chinese restaurant weren't clean or warm when he asked the employees they acknowledged the heating element had failed but that there was still chemical backup somehow though it wasn't hitting the dishes then he saw a cockroach crawl out of the washer attempting to understand how the dishes were not getting rinsed he found that it was backed up with cockroaches they were cleaning the trays they closed for remodeling for three days but it was really cleaning up in order to pass inspection before they were allowed to open again at a similar restaurant he asked about a pail on the floor filled with a green substance soup of the day they told him dead asked what it was and was told it was scraps the bucket was never anteed it turned out the scraps going in roughly equaled the soup going out which meant that there was stuff in there that had been there for weeks at room temp on the floor dad had them dump its as he looked on a bonus story was when he caught a guy smoking in a kitchen and exposed the cigarette behind his back with a handshake not a health inspector but someone in my city repainted their floor with non-slip paint and literally painted over a dead rat sealing it in there my favorite Chinese restaurant got shut down my ex-wife worked for the city and I asked her what was the deal she said the health inspectors found some - been leaking from the selling they lifted the ceiling tile and shined the flashlight and saw multiple eyes staring back at them it was chickens they were raising chickens and the selling and chicken crap was dripping in the food that I had been eating at least once a week my stepdad used to be a baker in an authentic recreation of an 18th century new French fortress because they sell bread to the public the health inspector came by and she was ripping into my stepdad for violations like the stonework walls the Dulles entranceways or the lack of a mosquito zapper he pointed out that they were following the highest standards except for things that would destroy the authenticity of this 18th century bakery the health inspector relented and agreed to give him a pass after verifying the food storage area was secure they went to the shed which was a doorless building attached to the bakery as the health inspector went in they happen to be an escaped cow licking all of the loaves my stepdad could only say honestly this never happens they passed the health inspection my friend was inspecting a restaurant walked out the back to find a man stirring a huge pot of curry with his arm no spoon or anything just up to his hairy elbows in curry I'd be more worried about how cold the curry is that he was able to stick his arm in I had a health inspector tell me the story there was a family in which both the elderly mother and a handicapped sibling used wheelchairs another sibling lived in the house with them and did all the driving etc the health department got a phone call from the local wheelchair company the brother stopped by and picked up a new custom-built wheelchair for his sister and for his mother and returned within about 30 minutes saying that the sister's wheelchair hadn't made to the right specifications it was too small after he left the staff noticed several roaches on the chair so the guy I met got a call apparently it was summer Midwest both hot and humid and the house was all locked up with no open windows for ventilation curtains drawn etc the inspector entered the house and he said it was so stifling hot that he started to get busy and he thought hallucinate he said that there was a sound like leaves rustling in the fall and the walls and floors were kind of vibrating he then realized it was because they were literally covered in roaches he immediately evacuated the three people living there and the next day they tented and sprayed the house he went in in a tie vac suit and knee-high rubber boots and said that the dead roaches were about two and a half feet deep in most parts of the house it's moments like these that make me think that people just straight up sometimes open portal to hack in their homes or something not a health inspector but my mom used to work at this restaurant where the owner just did not give a crap it was a Mexican restaurant and my mom told me that once a lady came in asking for cold odorous beef soup that they didn't have any more meat at least not the one used for that dish they were about to let the lady know when the owner stepped up and told the lady that her food would be right out the server and my mom were both confused as to what she was going to do well this lady goes and literally digs through the freaking trash and pulls out some beef some still with bone she then ran it through water cooked it and served it to that poor lady my mom says the lady was even sucking the bone and she almost felt sick watching my mom quit that job soon after not health inspector but I worked as an assistant cook at a restaurant two weeks into the job I opened a cupboard to get a can of tomato sauce and I see a huge oz tarantula scuttling away behind the cans I told the boss what I had seen so that maybe we should get someone to deal with the huge ass spider living in the kitchen boss turns to me and say I see you've met Eduardo just don't put your hand too close to him and you'll be good later another cook proceeded to explain to me the spider bean living there for two and they allowed it because he kept rodents and roaches away I love that they named the tarantula Eduardo seems like a real bro not a health inspector but witnessed some things that my first job a setup waitress at a banquet hall the head cook had some hairy arms and he always mixed the salad with his hands so you know that hair is getting him there and one day we even found a used bandaid in there not a health inspector but I used to manage a well-known sandwich shop one day I discovered a huge colony of black statue bur trees mold growing behind one of the walls I mentioned it to my assistant manager who told me that everyone knew it was there and that the entire staff assumed that I also knew about it and was just keeping my mouth shut I reported it to the district manager and the owner that day they both told me that they knew for a fact that black mold was harmless and that they weren't going to pay 3 grand to tear out the drywall and replace it I was fired inside of a week I reported them to the local health department but by the time the health department got around to doing the inspection they had already fixed the wall taking 10 years as an inspector most dangerous is usually not the most disgusting I've seen entire walk-in coolers they were using at 55 60 degrees Fahrenheit and the staff didn't even notice anything wrong I've seen piles of mice that died getting stuck in the grease behind the fryer I've seen staff throwing raw burgers within the grill then making a salad right after I've seen squirrels and birds roaming freely inside a bread manufacturer the stereotypes are true Chinese restaurant kitchens are almost always filthy the most common critical violation dish machine not sanitizing properly mum worked for a hospital case after case of food poisoning came in with one thing in common a local restaurant had a lobster dinner special health inspectors went in and found that they were dumping the half-used clarified butter back in the pot in the serving area as they cleared the tables not a health inspector but my mom told me this story some time ago when she was in her early 20s she had started working as a waitress for the restaurant in this big fancy hotel just a few days after she started working there the hotel was hosting some big event so there were a ton of super rich people staying there and thus the restaurant was super busy so my mom goes into the kitchen at one point and sees that one of the chefs is clearly sick he's coughing and hacking and continually wiping his runny nose on a handkerchief right as he's making food sir my mom goes to her boss and is like hey this chef is sick he can't be working right now he's gonna make everyone sick her boss tells her that the guy said he was fine and to not worry about it so my mom goes to the sick guy and tells him that he has to leave to prevent the food from being contaminated he tells her that he'd tried to call in sick but the boss told him that they were going to be too busy and they needed him and if he didn't show up for work he'd be fired sir my mom goes back to the boss and he admits that yep he knew the guy was really sick but he didn't care if everyone else got sick as long as they got through the event my mom tells her boss that this is wrong and that he needs to send the guy home take back everyone's food refund their money throw out all the food that may have been contaminated close the place down and clean it up he simply laughs at her and tells her she's fired so she went and did the logical thing she walked out into the dining room stood on top of a table and shouted to everyone of the events that the boss forced her sick man to work today and all of their food was probably contaminated there was practically a riot everyone crowded around and screamed at the boss demanding their money back in the end the restaurant was temporarily closed everyone got their money back the boss of the restaurant was fired by the owner of the hotel and mom got to keep her job your mom is the real MVP environmental health inspectors don't only cover restaurants I inspect wells and septic systems I see sewage every day the worst thing I've seen are old men coming up to their door naked and what makes it worse is that they knew what date and time I was stopping by I had to take a sanitation class for culinary school one day the health inspector came in and gave us a presentation he looked up all the citations in town and my personal favorite was improper use of a hand sink for the local strip club not a health inspector but I was visiting a friend in Colorado and his roommate came home from a taco place in Denver he unwrapped a napkin to show us a tooth that was in his taco the guy still ate all off his tacos even after nearly swallowing a tooth we tried to tell him he shouldn't have made a complaint but he was so nonchalant about it bleurgh not a health inspector but worked in a restaurant where the managers were good friends with one the coffee ice cream shop next door was shut down out of nowhere and we were all shocked because they were pretty busy health inspector came in one day and manager asked why it was shut down health inspector proceeded to tell my manager that he walked in unannounced early one morning before the shop opened only to find the owner jerking off behind the counter by the ice cream at least you know he was passionate about ice cream my CNA instructor once witnessed a McDonald's employee probably 16 or 17 years old use a rag in the bathroom to clean the sink and anywhere else that needed wiping down she later witnessed the employee later used the same rag to wipe down the counters in front of the cash registers they were fired on the spot not a health inspector but assistant manager at a restaurant for a year between University I once saw my sous chef flicker Filat steak out of the pan kick could back up with his foot and landed back in the pan to continue cooking he did this three stroke four times I was watching on the CCTV trying not to laugh every time he celebrated each catch I'm not a health inspector but I've been waiting tables since I turned 16 some of the things I've witnessed have really turned me off to going out to eat the worst thing I can think of right now is when I saw her manager blow his nose into the salad dressing and mix it up I wish I was lying didn't realize salad dressing was so absorbent I used to work next to a Chinese place that tenderized 20 pound roasts by repeatedly slamming it on the floor the pizzeria I was working at the time was so dirty the wife changed the baby inside your pizza box at another pizzeria I worked at I was washing dishes in the manager came to me with a block of Swiss cheese it was covered in mold and he wanted me to scrub it out of the holes like this video but do it quietly so you don't wake up the sleeping papa I hope you enjoyed the video if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you magnificent people [Music]

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Length: 18min 17sec (1097 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 30 2019