Life Ask Reddit eating out restaurants
People have been sharing what makes them instantly leave a restaurant – 19 stomach-turning red flags
11.
‘Cook walks out of the bathroom with an apron on.’
-Worlds_worst_ginge
12.
‘TL;DR: When cooks don’t wash their hands.
‘Went to a restaurant the other day and then to the bathroom shortly after being seated. While standing at the urinal I saw a cook come out of the stall after dropping a deuce and head straight out the door without washing his hands.
‘That’s how people get trichinosis and I don’t want to end up like RFKjr with worms in my brain.’
-MikeOKurias
13.
‘Wife and I walked into a diner once and were seated. Waitress came over and handed us our menus. Her make up was so caked on that bits of it were falling on our table.
‘She then showed us the salad bar which was a card table set up next to the front door, not iced or anything with bowls of potato salad and macaroni salad with saran wrap over them. We got up and left.’
-DadsRGR8
14.
‘My brother told me this story.
‘He saw a black cord-like thing sticking out of a wall. Thought it was a wire or something…. Then it started to move.
Apparently it was a mouse tail. That’s not the worst part.
‘He tells a waiter. Waiter grabs a spoon, one that is obviously something guests would be given to eat with, and attacks the tail with it.
‘Him and his entire group just left.’
-pahamack
15.
‘A worker sneezed into his gloved hands and gave them a half-hearted wipe on his pant legs. Immediately after, a customer came in to get donuts and I saw the man fill the order without changing his gloves. I went off and left.
‘Later on, I went to leave a review explaining this and saw that I’m not the only one to point out their disgusting ways. Someone else posted a picture of a worker with his shoes off and dirty socked feet up on a table. Sitting right next to a window for the public to see.’
-Accidental_Taco
16.
‘Walked into a restaurant and I smelled sewage. They said a sewage back-up had occurred and was being fixed by a plumber. I left anyway because the place was running like it was normal.
‘No windows open or fans running to try and flush the smell. Ya it was warm outside but seriously I’d rather sweat than smell shit while eating.’
-Taboc741
17.
‘The smell of a dirty grease trap. After you’ve worked in a kitchen for a while you recognize it instantly. It’s an awful smell and if a place isn’t getting it regularly serviced the rest of the operation is probably terrible too.
‘I was going to pub trivia at a place I had worked at years earlier. As soon as I walked in I smelled the smell and it was strong. I ended up calling the trap cleaning service and setting up an appointment for them without telling the manager.’
-BakedMitten
18.
‘Haven’t seen squabbling servers on the list yet.
‘That happened to four of us at a recently opened seafood-themed place that we vaguely knew the owner of and wanted to support as new restaurants were a pretty big thing in our small city. Normally we would have waited a couple months for the dust to settle and the place to figure itself out, but we went in their second week.
‘House manager greeted and seated us and then disappeared. It was a little before standard lunch hour and mid-week and nobody else was there.
‘About 5 minutes of nothing later, we heard the distant yelling start from the kitchen area. After about a minute of that, a female server charged through the doors and grabbed menus and brought them over, muttering.
‘Her opening words were “Sorry if you heard that. That bitch in there, what can you do?”
‘We glanced at each other, asked for a few minutes before ordering drinks, and when she went back in the kitchen, left.
Somehow the restaurant still managed to survive and is still there to this day, but goddamn if the excellent show The Bear didn’t remind us of that experience.’
-the_original_Retro
19.
‘If I see a dirty bathroom, I’m out. It reflects kitchen hygiene too.’
-EchaHaze
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