People Who’ve Worked In Restaurants Are Sharing The Most Repulsive Things They’ve Seen Behind Kitchen Doors

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“Former server here. I worked at a popular mom-and-pop type restaurant (not a big chain) and gave it all about six weeks before quitting because of how nasty it was. We were told to save individual packets of soup crackers if they came back on a plate unopened, even though they were never cleaned and had been on a customer’s plate — gross, but not the worst. Moving on to table bread, if it looked untouched, we were told to ‘save it’ for salad croutons … big nope!”

“The servers were in charge of preparing smaller food items to save the kitchen time, like salads, wraps, etc. The servers were always so busy that almost no one would take the time to wash their hands before preparing the food, even though they’d just been handling cash all day. And finally, my last straw before quitting, the owner’s son watched me throw out ketchup bottles without ‘marrying’ the ketchup first, essentially scraping every last bit out. He scolded me and picked through the trash to get the bottles and ‘marry them’ himself. Then he put them out on the tables without wiping them off; meanwhile, they had just been in the garbage … all this to save a buck!”

—Anonymous