Its the printed or hand written ticket that's produced. When the cook finishes preparing your meal, they throw that paper ticket in or on your food to mark it for the server.

I can't say I'm quite at the point of being disgusted by it, but I do find this practice at the very least questionable.


What do you say, TWW?

3/20/2014 9:26:03 AM

Never really thought about it one way or another.

3/20/2014 9:32:37 AM

in the world of food prep issues this seems like a very trivial thing.

3/20/2014 9:34:24 AM

Yeah, really. When I worked as a cook, I certainly didn't think twice about it.


But in the world of food consumption, there's reason to pause, no?

3/20/2014 9:41:16 AM

more than the 60+ seconds the food sits in the window, the 100+ foot walk through who knows how many airborne germs/bacterias in the dining room, or being served on a plate that went through a 5 second hand wash and rinse?

3/20/2014 9:48:34 AM

that settles it, i'm cooking at home tonight

3/20/2014 9:49:35 AM

"your food is already exposed to germs and bacteria. Why do you care if I throw this paper in it, that was stored in a roll inside of a filthy drawer, and printed in a machine that has literally never been cleaned?"

3/20/2014 10:00:35 AM

That guy that threw the paper in your food, yeah he has already barehanded your food along with the other guydown the line. Now that expo has touched everything on your plate to make sure it's lined up and presentable. Oh yeah about that paper

3/20/2014 11:02:16 AM

...I'm more than aware of how food is prepared in a restaurant. This should have been painfully obvious 3 posts into this thread. Thx.

3/20/2014 11:17:06 AM

^ don't know about you EMCE, but I also worked as a sous chef for 3 years during undergrad.

I have seen: a guy soak his balls in a customer's tea, countless people spit in food, pissed off cooks intentionally drop food and sweep it across the floor before returning it to the plate, people leaving meat, mayonnaise, etc out for hours on end and still serve it, waiters taking others' food into the bathroom with them, etc.

I think a paper ticket should be the least of your worries



[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 12:03 PM. Reason : d]

3/20/2014 11:59:36 AM

3/20/2014 12:12:06 PM

Shockingly accurate

3/20/2014 12:13:02 PM

Quote :

"I have seen: a guy soak his balls in a customer's tea, countless people spit in food, pissed off cooks intentionally drop food and sweep it across the floor before returning it to the plate, people leaving meat, mayonnaise, etc out for hours on end and still serve it, waiters taking others' food into the bathroom with them, etc. I think a paper ticket should be the least of your worries"

why do people do this? so immature

3/20/2014 12:15:34 PM

the dishwasher at a place i worked threw his chewed spearmint gum into the clam chowder, and a lady ate it and screamed. the same dishwasher took a handful of food particles from the bottom of the sink and ate them for $4.

3/20/2014 12:20:08 PM

wtf

3/20/2014 12:21:00 PM

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"why do people do this? so immature"

Because while you are pulling up in the drive thru during lunch of your 9-5 job that pays $50,000/yr, the people responsible for handling your food bring home <$200 a paycheck.

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 12:24 PM. Reason : ...]

3/20/2014 12:24:01 PM

I wish I was making $50K, but I guess I see your point

even when I was working in minimum wage in HS and college and even now sometimes, I didn't fuck with people like that

whatever

3/20/2014 12:25:35 PM

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"I have seen: a guy soak his balls in a customer's tea, countless people spit in food, pissed off cooks intentionally drop food and sweep it across the floor before returning it to the plate, people leaving meat, mayonnaise, etc out for hours on end and still serve it, waiters taking others' food into the bathroom with them, etc. "

My brother used to work at a pizza place and his coworker went to the bathroom and spread sundried tomato paste on his ass. Came out screaming that his ass was bleeding

3/20/2014 12:25:54 PM

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"I have seen: a guy soak his balls in a customer's tea, countless people spit in food, pissed off cooks intentionally drop food and sweep it across the floor before returning it to the plate, people leaving meat, mayonnaise, etc out for hours on end and still serve it, waiters taking others' food into the bathroom with them, etc. "

I've worked in a few kitchens and never seen shit like that, and honestly some of that is more myth the anything, because it's a good way to get arrested and serve jail time.

I wouldn't worry about paper tickets. It's no different than a wrapper on your burger or a liner in a basket of fries.

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 12:27 PM. Reason : ]

3/20/2014 12:26:58 PM

^^ that I sort of expect, but then serving people food that you have put on your genitals?


like go fuck yourself dude

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 12:27 PM. Reason : .]

3/20/2014 12:27:08 PM

I wasn't a sous chef.... Just a piddly line cook on the grill. I saw some stuff, but nothing too gross. I guess I just worked with pretty honest people. I definitely heard horror stories though.

I don't know man.... I'm just not sure I buy the reasoning "its already filthy....so a little more filthy won't hurt".
The thought for this thread popped into my head last night, when I went to BGR. the push the paper ticket through the toothpick holdingthe burger together, then hand it to yyou. Maybe that's what struck me as odd, because we at least removed the paper before serving, to at least uphold appearances and such.


Like I said, I'm not at the point of disgust.... Just taking note

3/20/2014 12:28:45 PM

We had this really annoying customer at this coffee shop I used to work at. I mean, she was the biggest bitch I've ever met in my entire life. Just rude to everybody. I never did anything to her but one time, she pissed off my coworker so bad that my coworker squirted some Visine into her latte.

3/20/2014 12:29:08 PM

I saw a guy drop a grilled chx on the floor once. But he picked it up, and dunked it in the fryer vat for 20 seconds before plating it. That's reasonable enough for me to kill any germs before serving

3/20/2014 12:33:28 PM

I certainly never did anything like that, but where I worked most of the staff were late teens, early twenty somethings and a bunch of coke heads...

The only one that I thought "deserved" it was the balls in the tea guy. He used to come in once a week, bitch about everything (send food back multiple times per visit), and not tip the waiters at all. Eventually the manager told him to never come back.

[Edited on March 20, 2014 at 12:35 PM. Reason : d]

3/20/2014 12:35:04 PM

That customer must have been Mr. Johnson.

3/20/2014 12:38:04 PM

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" You know, we should probably feel guilty, but she broke the cardinal rule. Don't fuck with people that handle your food. "

3/20/2014 12:41:46 PM

Back to the paper, the paper's fine.

It's the lemon slice in your water/tea/vodka&soda that you should be worried about...

3/20/2014 1:13:19 PM

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"I wasn't a sous chef.... Just a piddly line cook on the grill. I saw some stuff, but nothing too gross. I guess I just worked with pretty honest people. I definitely heard horror stories though."

the restaurants i worked at were all pretty honest, but I too have heard horror stories. A buddy of mine worked in the kitchen at the Applebee's in Boone. His stories were enough to keep me from eating in Applebees once in 7 years.

3/20/2014 1:24:35 PM

^It's my understanding that the ethics for food handling are much worse at large corporate restaurants.

I only ever worked at small privately owned/mom and pop restaurants, and things were kept very honest and clean.

3/20/2014 2:18:00 PM

I worked at a privately owned seafood restaurant at the beach. It served predominately nasty fried food, was cheap, had a lot of white-trash clientele, employed a bunch of burn-outs and drunks, and some really shady and gross stuff went on there. But we had a fun time working there!

3/20/2014 2:27:20 PM

My brother's friend used to work at Gumby's (the original one before it got shut down)

and we went down there one night to pick up a pizza and this motherfucker was stirring the pizza sauce with his arm. I guess he didn't have a spoon or anything else to stir with so he just went elbow deep.

and this is why I no longer eat Gumby's

3/20/2014 3:40:26 PM

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"His stories were enough to keep me from eating in Applebees once in 7 years."

Eating at Applebees should keep you from eating at Applebees

3/20/2014 3:43:05 PM

^^we routinely made cocktail and tartar sauce in huge barrels and used our bare-hands to stir the mayonnaise/ketchup/horseradish/relish/worceshire. and the management did nothing to assure that us 15 yr old punks were even washing our hands.

i knew a guy that worked at the original gumby's too, and yes, it was totally disgusting.

3/20/2014 3:49:47 PM

i eat at applebees like 4-5 times a week.

3/20/2014 3:50:39 PM

http://phys.org/news/2010-11-bpa-thermal-paper-receipts-skin.html

3/20/2014 7:13:14 PM

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"Because while you are pulling up in the drive thru during lunch of your 9-5 job that pays $50,000/yr, the people responsible for handling your food bring home <$200 a paycheck."

So... jealousy? They make little money, so that justifies being horrible to strangers in that way?

May they pay the price for their actions one day, in whatever way is coming to them.

3/20/2014 7:15:08 PM

ya'll motherfuckers worked with some gross people

3/21/2014 3:36:01 PM

^
I worked with a dude that spnt half his money on prostitutes, but this kinda shit was uncool with him.

3/21/2014 3:43:59 PM

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"So... jealousy? They make little money, so that justifies being horrible to strangers in that way?"

No, it doesn't. Nobody in here is saying that it does.

3/21/2014 3:47:33 PM

I don't think it's the pay discrepancy, I think it's the fact that a lot of people who work in the food industry fall into one of two high-risk categories:

1) People who are immature because they are really young and that's the definition of the word

2) Fuck-ups on the margins of society who spend their lives working in food prep because anywhere else they would be recognized for the lunatics/addicts/perverts that they are. A whole industry has sprung up around this fact, in writing, TV, movies, etc., thanks to my spirit guide Anthony Bourdain

And of course there's the revenge factor. I don't think many people in kitchens fuck with people's food just in general, because of the pay difference. I bet there are a LOT of people who fuck with particular peoples' food because those people do something to piss them off. Sometimes maybe it's justified.

3/21/2014 3:49:02 PM

I usually eat the sticker on apples, and the wax-paper wrapping of a cupcake

I just can't be troubled to remove them

the cupcake wax paper is actually pretty good (I like the texture and it's usually got plenty of compressed cake inside it)

3/21/2014 11:53:32 PM

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"I've worked in a few kitchens and never seen shit like that, and honestly some of that is more myth the anything, because it's a good way to get arrested and serve jail time. I wouldn't worry about paper tickets. It's no different than a wrapper on your burger or a liner in a basket of fries."

It really depends on management. Managers can easily put an end to this, and good managers do.

Doesn't surprise me that chain restaurants are worse. Most people who open franchises are idiots that have no business running anything, let alone a restaurant.

3/22/2014 12:02:22 AM