Food.
The basic necessity we need to stay alive but also is a niche commodity for those with a sensitive palate for finer things. That’s precisely why restaurants work, don’t they?
This Reddit thread allowed people who have or are working in restaurants to reveal if they’d avoid something on the menu, what that’d be and it’s eye opening!
1. Specialty is important.
Basically, anything that isn’t that restaurant’s niche. Are you at a seafood place? The pizza probably sucks. Are you at an Italian place? The hummus plate probably isn’t great. Etc.
2. The inside secrets of Subway!
I work at a Subway. If you’re not going to a busy store (say, near a major tourist attraction, sports stadium, or festival) don’t get the harvest bread, since it usually sits around for days. On an average day at my store in a boring mid-sized city, we bake:
- 10-12 batches (100-120 loaves) each of Italian and Herbs and Cheese and run through those pretty quickly (within 6-8 hours unless it’s overnight).
- About 4-5 batches (40-50 loaves) of Wheat and Honey Oat, and we’re also usually rid of those within the same time frame, but on a rare occasion they last about 24 hours.
- One batch (10 loaves) of harvest bread when the need arises, which is only about once a week or so.
- Flatbread isn’t baked in store: it’s pre-made and defrosted the night before or first thing in the morning… it’s not really the freshest thing but it doesn’t really go stale like regular bread does… but that’s also why we suggest toasting it.
3. ‘Soupy’ affairs
Soup. It never gets cooled properly at night in the big container so it stays luke warm for hours.
4. Sensitive needs
I’m a pantry chef, there this one regular who requests her Caesar salad be heated up. Grosses me the fuck out.
5. The reality of freshness
Something I learned personally as someone raised around kitchens- unpopular ingredients are turned over less so you’re more likely to get something that was sitting around, perhaps even a little bad and picked over, freezer burned, chucked into the pits of a walk in freezer and thawed for your dietary pleasure.
So if you are the type of person who is anal about freshness just go with popular items and be done with it.
6. Be careful of your drinks!
Not eating but garnishes in your drink. The lemons limes oranges etc are almost never properly washed, they are handled with the waiter’s bare hands or bartenders bare hands literally 95% of the time. Bothers me
7. Ice ice baby!
You should be more worried about the ice in your drink.
8. Dip into this
Any cheese dip, no matter how fancy it sounds, is basically 95% butter and cream cheese just enough actual cheese to make it taste like Asiago or whatever. Seriously, it is half a day’s caloric intake in a small bowl of it.
Be careful next time!
H/ T : The Huffington Post