Anyone with restaurant experience can attest how tiresome, fun, frustrating, entertaining, and intense it can get. That’s because while working there, they get to experience everything—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
That typically entails familiarizing oneself with all the ins and outs of the industry, including its darkest secrets. Redditor u/PocketGoblix has recently addressed the restaurant workers of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community asking about said secrets; they wanted to know what people who frequent such places should know. Scroll down to find the redditors’ answers on the list below and see what dirty secrets are hidden behind restaurant walls.
Bored Panda has reached out to the OP and they were kind enough to answer a few of our questions. You will find their thoughts in the text below.
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In a recent interview, the OP told Bored Panda that they used to work in a restaurant themselves, which is why they became curious about the experiences of others in the food service industry.
They revealed that they were a part of it back in their teenage years and shared that, compared to the answers from fellow redditors, their former place of employment didn’t have very many dirty secrets.
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The OP said they were very surprised about the amount of similar answers they saw in the thread. “Many of the comments repeated the same ‘secrets’, confirming the fact that it must be a very common thing; for example, not washing silverware properly.”
Unfortunately, said secrets are rarely ever positive and likely more common than customers would like them to be. A 2014 investigation of public health inspection reports from national chain restaurants in Canada has found that nearly one fourth of them reported at least one major violation.
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Just a couple of years ago, in 2022, there were roughly 12.5 million people working in the food service industry in the US, marking a slight increase from the 11.2 million a year before, Statista reports. It is unclear how many of them bear witness to secrets that stay behind the closed doors of restaurants, but the members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community who did didn’t seem to shy away from sharing their experiences with fellow food service workers.
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