Catering staff uncovered the terrible secrets of the buffet
'08.06.2021'
Source: Lenta.ru report
Employees of institutions offering visitors to the menu "buffet", told about the features and strangeness of their work. The thread was running on Reddit Tristanmemes123 user, who encouraged them to tell the “scary stories” they witnessed. The discussion became one of the most popular on the platform, having collected almost 50 thousands of likes.
The commentator under the nickname natlach admitted that the manager of the establishment where his cousin worked, forced the staff to keep expired seafood on the counter, writes Lenta.ru report. According to him, chilled shrimps could lie on the buffet for almost two weeks, while many buyers did not complain about the disgusting smell.
Another user said that an employee of a café on serving dishes was touching a pan with lasagne with dirty hands, and then she cut off the melted cheese from her fingernail. "And then threw it back into the paste," he concluded. He was supported by one of the commentators, who, he said, saw even those who taste the food with a finger or sneeze while holding the dish in their hands.
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One of the users said that while working at the buffet, he realized that such institutions often become a haven for bulimic patients. According to him, he constantly met a couple who came several times a week. After an hour-long meal, they took a large glass of water and went to the toilet. For a long time he could not understand what was the matter until he felt the smell of vomiting in the toilet.
Dozens of users confirmed that they had repeatedly greeted similar guests of the cafe: many of them sat at the table for hours, leaving the toilet, to “discourage” the money spent. Many of them were ready to drink fatty sauces from vats or eat indiscriminately uncooked foods.
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Many commentators have said that they have often seen how visitors to such establishments go to great lengths for the sake of food: for example, they take off their clothes and use them as a bag to take as many snacks out of the institution as possible. One of them said that he had witnessed a "redemption" from a particularly voracious visitor: the manager gave him a large amount of a coupon so that he would stop consuming expensive seafood and left the cafe.
Subscribers of the trade agreed that the employees and visitors of such establishments cost each other, as, as a rule, they are impolite and dishonest brawlers.
