Dining experiences in restaurants may involve overlooked hygiene habits that can be concerning. Restaurant workers often witness significant health code violations and unhygienic practices. Many establishments may repurpose food items from customers' plates without proper cleaning, and precautions around food allergies are frequently inadequate. For instance, individual packets of crackers that are returned may be reused without sanitization, presenting health risks. Former staff members express shock and disillusionment with practices they encountered, prompting reconsideration of dining habits for health-conscious consumers.
"I've worked in a lot of kitchens, and the scariest thing I've regularly seen is a complete lack of safety when someone reports an allergy, especially if it's gluten."
"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..."
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