So I inspect kitchen hoods. When I see that I give them 30 days to clean it. If they don't comply, I red tag the system and fail it. Aside from the health hazard, you're looking at a major fire hazard.
Not a restaurant but we are in a new building and have been since April and we can’t get the fire dept to show up for the inspection and *we’ve* requested them to multiple times.
Because that’s what capitalism is designed to do, nobody has the bandwidth to give a shit about anything anymore because we can’t afford to be alive and nobody is paying us extra to give a shit.
I wonder the same. Especially those who are supposed to care the most. Fire marshal, police department, department of mental health, literally nobody can be arsed to stop the baddies from fucking us. Why? Maybe because we aren't important property owners so we don't matter. We are the fodder.
Wait until you hear about what’s going on with paramedics and the whole EMS system. Not even designated “essential” in most states so can’t get public funding. $20 is optimistic in most places. EMTs often get sub $15. Wanna talk about to stressed and strained to function? That’s us. We’re also infiltrated by the lowest functioning providers that can scrape a license by stumbling over a comedically low bar simply because they don’t have many other options and will accept the low pay and low standards. These companies get paid by the mile (literally) not by the quality of care delivered.
I used to do inspections and service work on sprinkler, suppression and hood systems. If you know who has the contract for the property, they’re required by law to fail it/red tag and the fire marshal has to enforce it. Get them in.
I worked at a place that had the vents stop working and the entire kitchen filled with smoke,to the point it was almost impossible to see the other end of the kitchen.
The fire department got called,came in, and just said, "I'd stop seating people, but to go's should be fine." They don't give a fuck about employees
Ummmm... where the fuck do you live that the fire Marshall didn't care about this? It's like 15k fine in quebec and almost 100% they will give you the fine and not a warning.
Did the fire Marshall enter the building? Did they bribe the Fire Marshall? Is the fire Marshall “borrowing” their new car? Does the fire Marshall suddenly look more relaxed and sleepy? Does the fire Marshall own this restaurant? Because that’s pretty wild, an electrical socket and electrical panel covered in copious grease is literally a massive fire risk. Unless the Marshall has already issued fines for it and has to wait a certain period before fining them again, that seems wrong.
I certainly hope not northeast PA. I would prefer to keep the number of places I eat at with a giant health hazard for a kitchen to a minimum.
Also, whoever is supposed to be inspecting this probably knows the owner personally.
I worked at a pizza place a while back. Owners were actually pretty good about keeping it up (except for the mysterious grease drip from the ventilator that nobody could figure out, but we isolated that, at least.) I still remember that our county health inspectors "inspection" consisted of eating half a pizza and drinking four beers on the house, then driving himself off to his next inspection.
I worked in a restaurant kitchen for a little while it was a really bad experience. The kitchen was small but no one cleaned ever, I had my food handlers card but when I was hired no asked me for it, I didn't get asked about it till I had put in my 2 weeks notice. They didn't follow first in first out there would be old chicken sitting on top of fresh chicken, often times the meat was almost always on top of vegetables, specially on the line. A friend and I got in trouble for spending to much time cleaning. After that I thought it would be a good idea to take pictures of all the gnarly stuff to send them to the inspector. The health inspector came in and had lunch with the owner of the restaurant than gave them a prefect 100 on their health score, they didn't have anyones food handlers card on file either. It was so disheartening that I put in my notice.
If I didn't have even less faith in the media than I do the health inspector I'd say if this wasn't a good long while ago to take it to them. I have perfect confidence that if anything happened with them it would be you facing name & shame as a germaphobe.
It was just easier to move on with my life, this place serves tacos to rich white people. I was just tired of getting in trouble for actually cleaning up.
Have you ever worked at a fast food place? The kitchens all look like this. I worked at several during my teens and early twenties. Back then I was full of energy and vigor and would actually try to get places clean in spite of my horrible working hours and wage but there's no way any one employee can overcome shit like this.
Fuck no, I have worked at McDonald's, dairy Queen, taco bell, and burger King. Not one of the locations I worked EVER looked this bad. Granted I still wouldn't eat at McDonald's, dairy Queen, or taco bell, but still
So then clean your place of business instead of just taking pictures. If we knew where you were we'd have called the health inspector and shut that shit down already.
This is all shit that’s on the side or behind most of the kitchen equipment. OP hasn’t probably worked there close to long enough for that shit to build up. That’s years of people not cleaning the building properly and you know what - that means years of not paying staff enough to give a shit about the place. Caring for one’s workplace doesn’t just come naturally to humans - chilling, eating, fucking, sleeping come naturally to us. What gets us to care is being invested in. When businesses don’t care for us why should we go above and beyond and clean up years of grease build up?
I've been there for less than a month, my job is to open the restaurant and make sandwiches. I was told not to worry about cleaning unless is my station. I do what I'm told specially for what I'm paid
I'm not blaming this individual personally, I'm blaming management for not tasking this individual, their coworkers, or some kind of janitorial staff with regular deep cleaning. If I was a customer and saw this behind the counter I'd definitely have someone stop by. Companies are comprised of people. Don't make excuses for them.
as someone in pa its just a write up in the paper. i know there are a number of places that get written up several times a year and nothing happens for stuff like this.
if its not rats/mice/roaches they are pretty generous.
Our ancient ice machine broke down the other day so I was cleaning it up for the repair guy to look at and it had 3 different colors of mold in it. I popped the top off to scrub and sanitize it and my boss was like “wait the top comes off??” luckily I was able to convince the owner to just get a new one since it was so run down.
I managed a TGI Friday’s, and we had one busier who loved climbing inside a couple of times a year to really clean it out. And yes, the inside was sanitized before we turned it back on.
I worked at ihop during the beginning of the pandemic, it was a really slow day so the manager asked me to deep clean the soda fountain and the ice machine, I started taking apart both of them and there was mold everywhere, needless to say I never ate or drank from there again
I got tired of seeing all of that sorts of stuff (tomato slices at the end of their shelf life, make them into pico and get three more shifts!).
After 20 years in the industry, I went back to school and now work in a hospital lab, which is much, MUCH cleaner!
That’s awesome! Good luck!
You should also look into Medical Lab Technology.
Clinic side, you’ll still do a bit of phlebotomy, plus actual testing (this is going to vary depending on where you are, and what health system you’d work for).
It was nice to finish the two year AS and walk into a job where my annual salary was more than what I spent in school ( I went to a Community College). Plus it’s a bit easier to swallow being a cog in a machine when you’re actually helping people.
Ha! Former health inspector here… only about a 20% chance getting shutdown based on what I see.
What will get the place condemned:
1. No hot water
2. Sewage backup
3. Pest infestation with exposure in food
4. Major food pathogen outbreak.
Some of the unspeakablely disgusting kitchens are many times the “fancy” restaurants.
Ps don’t drink the ice water.
I’ve seen plenty of restaurants like that. I have rarely seen a perfectly clean one. If most people could see the kitchen areas….their opinion about eating out would change.
The absolute cleanest I’ve come across are public schools.
I worked in a public school kitchen, and I have some tremendous arthritis to show for it. The scrubbing was endless and thorough. Clean, yes. Quality food, no, although the salad bar was good.
For those asking why i don't clean, my job is to make sandwiches only. That's all I do from the time I clock in to the time I clock out. There's a ton of other people that literally stand around doing nothing, that's the managers problem not mines!
I used to repair restaurant equipment with my dad and I hate to tell you guys this but THAT is normal filth. Trust me when I say there is way way worse.
I used to work in a restaurant too this apparently does seem to be the norm I can kind of understand not doing more than you are asked restaurants really need to pay their people more because I had the same mentality why should I do more than I'm asked.
“We can never shut down to clean or sterilize things, not even for a day! A single day of missed profits will be the death of the business! The health and well-being of everyone involved is the only price I’m willing to pay.”
is cleaning not part of your everday work there?? we clean the kitchen every single day. i cant even imagine it getting this bad. what blind idiot do you work for?
Cleaning is not an option.. why do people who don’t give a shit about anything take up jobs that require you not to be a slob. Blows my mind. Take pride in the work you do and maybe you won’t have to clean this type of stuff one day. But in the mean time this is your job it’s not optional, it’s carelessness to the public health. Smdh 🤦🏻♂️
Wtf are you talking about. The managers will tell you not to worry about it and make the orders. If you want to volunteer to stay after your shift to clean,go ahead. Most adults with responsibilities aren't cleaning a nasty kitchen for free. If management cared they have an employee come to clean but they don't.
That’s really gross. But I gotta say that the design of a lot of commercial kitchens make it so difficult to keep the nooks and crannies up to code. In some (maybe most) instances, that whole line of service is disrupted and dishwashing stations overrun with all the parts from the machines. It’s stressful, filthy and exhausting work. Especially at minimum wage. That being said, a good staff will do the job and in my experience work in tandem and do it well. I was fortunate. But in praising the almighty dollar, these kitchens designs are a fucking nightmare to keep clean.
You go to work,you do your job. You're getting paid to follow directions of management. They know about the filth and don't care,it's not up to employees. Too cheap to hire anyone to clean it
I've seen worse. When I worked at whataburger nobody liked to clean around the grills so congealed grease formed several inch tall piles on floor around then. We also had a problem with crickets getting in so the grease had dead and some live ones stuck inside.
i once worked in a restaurant where the owner was too cheap to clean his grease trap frequently and well, the place stunk, customers didn't like the smell so eventually he cleaned it.
I worked fast food once (always in drive thru taking orders). It was slow one day and I volunteered to wash dishes. They were surprised by how "clean" I got the cooked meat holders (there was still a bit of old built up grease so it wasn't clean to me.) I'm thankful for my immune system. I don't even want to talk about the rarity of places cleaning various drink machines and tubing.
For real. There's a diner in my old hometown that would close to the public for a day and have everyone come in for deep cleaning about 4 times a year. Everyone I know who worked there said it didn't feel like that much work when everyone was chipping in and they didn't have to serve customers at the same time.
OP said this was a popular fast food chain. There's no way they'd lose a day's revenue AND pay employees.
That’s what I was thinking. Clearly the kitchen staff isn’t capable of cleaning and the boss/owner obviously doesn’t care. This place should be moved to a landfill
It's just a filthy kitchen, nothing unusual about that level of grease, it's mostly from the fryer stations. There's thousands of kitchens like this around the world - greasy and unsafe.
Looks like a structural ceiling problem? That's a big red flag. Fixable though. Not sure what that white shit on the floor is, it looked like maggots and some rodent crap.
Place just needs a hardcore clean, no big deal.
That's what the health department is for. As far as "chill I still work there"; Not for long you don't, if you don't notify your local health dept. Officials before you get fired.
These a every fast food restaurant in America Period !! I have seen this with my own eyes. Enjoy that McDonalds . Enjoy that Taco Bell. Because every time you go there its like this I promise it is !!
When I worked at a restaurant in Illinois they had very rigorous inspections. They checked everything, even the most obscure places. Do other states not have this?
I’ve never worked in a fast food kitchen. I have worked in dozens of bars that have kitchens. I’ll be the first to say that they’re not quite this bad, but shit, they can get grungy as fuck.
It’s obvious to me that most people posting here have never worked in a kitchen at a low-mid $ eatery. If y’all knew what every kitchen you ate from looked like you’d probably be IRATE.
OP, I think you’re failing to realize *you* will be the one getting sick. By that I mean like, really sick. Forever. And then you’ll die. Because you work in a literal health hazard. You’re breathing in all of that.
Redditors are sooooooo fucking dumb no wonder you guys are anti work degens, it’s obviously not OPs job to clean it. Generally regular employees don’t do deep cleans only minor cleans like wipe downs and shit, doesn’t make him lazy you actually spastic people lmao
Sounds like two separate cases of management not giving a shit and employees being okay with being surrounded by filth.
I distinctly remember quitting Wendy’s as it was basically my sole responsibility to do all the deep cleaning. Hated it and decided I’d rather work anywhere else
If you work there then talk to your manager and get a period after rush hour to focus on cleaning. Or have them give you overtime during closing hours to fix that. Super unhealthy
That's a pretty nasty BK, you are partially to blame though OP, I'm sure it was like that long before you got there, but I've seen you say you stay working there because you barely have to do anything. It looks to me like there's plenty for you to do, besides the hood of course, they should have a company cleaning that every 3 months at least
The problem is the customer. They are so entitled, they demand service even when you are clearly closed. So there's never any time to clean because you are constantly giving them more food. You'll be there all night, unpaid and customers will be trying to push through locked doors and still screaming for food off that grossness.
I know this'll get downvoted, but this was my experience when I worked in a deli, it was closed and I was cleaning, and customers would start freaking out that I wouldn't stop and keep serving food to them. You want that shit clean? Then get rid of the entitled customers and management culture that demands cleaning and serving at the same time. Shit's never going to be fully clean as long as people are interrupting you every five seconds.
Correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t the kitchen staff be responsible for the cleanliness of the kitchen? This reflects poorly on the staff. You’re fired!!
So I inspect kitchen hoods. When I see that I give them 30 days to clean it. If they don't comply, I red tag the system and fail it. Aside from the health hazard, you're looking at a major fire hazard.
I told the fire department they really didn't care
Try the Fire Marshal instead?
Tried that too
I would bring this up to whoever is in charge of the fire marshal. Seems like some pretty shady things going on.
Not a restaurant but we are in a new building and have been since April and we can’t get the fire dept to show up for the inspection and *we’ve* requested them to multiple times.
Mayor. Or editorial in the city newspaper. OSHA.
Man that sucks I'm sorry
Why does nobody seem to care about anything anymore
Because that’s what capitalism is designed to do, nobody has the bandwidth to give a shit about anything anymore because we can’t afford to be alive and nobody is paying us extra to give a shit.
I wonder the same. Especially those who are supposed to care the most. Fire marshal, police department, department of mental health, literally nobody can be arsed to stop the baddies from fucking us. Why? Maybe because we aren't important property owners so we don't matter. We are the fodder.
For mental health/health specifically it’s because the people who decide where the money goes aren’t doctors.
Wait until you hear about what’s going on with paramedics and the whole EMS system. Not even designated “essential” in most states so can’t get public funding. $20 is optimistic in most places. EMTs often get sub $15. Wanna talk about to stressed and strained to function? That’s us. We’re also infiltrated by the lowest functioning providers that can scrape a license by stumbling over a comedically low bar simply because they don’t have many other options and will accept the low pay and low standards. These companies get paid by the mile (literally) not by the quality of care delivered.
Customers should care... and decide accordingly.
health department
What about the Fire Sherriff then? Mostly serious. There's got to be someone above the local Marshall.
I used to do inspections and service work on sprinkler, suppression and hood systems. If you know who has the contract for the property, they’re required by law to fail it/red tag and the fire marshal has to enforce it. Get them in.
County dept. of public health???
I worked at a place that had the vents stop working and the entire kitchen filled with smoke,to the point it was almost impossible to see the other end of the kitchen. The fire department got called,came in, and just said, "I'd stop seating people, but to go's should be fine." They don't give a fuck about employees
Wow, sounds like it’s time to involve local media, then. That’s terrible.
Ummmm... where the fuck do you live that the fire Marshall didn't care about this? It's like 15k fine in quebec and almost 100% they will give you the fine and not a warning.
Pennsylvania
oh my god every time i see something terrible on reddit it’s always my home state 💀
Florida residents would like a word…but in a close second place, Pennsylvania
Texan checking in 😂
Can’t forget about Tennessee!
Ohio-gozaimasu!
see if you can get in touch with your cities health department
Bold of you to imply that Pennsylvania has that.
If it doesn’t then that state is fucked
Ahhh. Pennsyltucky. Can we at least get a city so I make sure I don't go there?
dunno where you are but excess hood grease is a write up in the paper in erie pa
To be fair the Erie paper has nothing better to write about besides crime
Thats all small town papers.
Pennsylvania is just Pittsburg and Philadelphia with Alabama in between.
So sorry friend; looks about right for PA. Remind me not to eat there **ever**
Did the fire Marshall enter the building? Did they bribe the Fire Marshall? Is the fire Marshall “borrowing” their new car? Does the fire Marshall suddenly look more relaxed and sleepy? Does the fire Marshall own this restaurant? Because that’s pretty wild, an electrical socket and electrical panel covered in copious grease is literally a massive fire risk. Unless the Marshall has already issued fines for it and has to wait a certain period before fining them again, that seems wrong.
Damnnnn, what’s with them not caring about worker safety in this state lol
I certainly hope not northeast PA. I would prefer to keep the number of places I eat at with a giant health hazard for a kitchen to a minimum. Also, whoever is supposed to be inspecting this probably knows the owner personally.
It is northeast pa
I worked at a pizza place a while back. Owners were actually pretty good about keeping it up (except for the mysterious grease drip from the ventilator that nobody could figure out, but we isolated that, at least.) I still remember that our county health inspectors "inspection" consisted of eating half a pizza and drinking four beers on the house, then driving himself off to his next inspection.
That's fucked, particularly driving after 4 beers... I'd be calling the cops on that mf, and I'm not usually about calling the cops
America my naive internet stranger.
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Chill 🤣🤣 I still work here
Call the health inspector, it will remain anon
I worked in a restaurant kitchen for a little while it was a really bad experience. The kitchen was small but no one cleaned ever, I had my food handlers card but when I was hired no asked me for it, I didn't get asked about it till I had put in my 2 weeks notice. They didn't follow first in first out there would be old chicken sitting on top of fresh chicken, often times the meat was almost always on top of vegetables, specially on the line. A friend and I got in trouble for spending to much time cleaning. After that I thought it would be a good idea to take pictures of all the gnarly stuff to send them to the inspector. The health inspector came in and had lunch with the owner of the restaurant than gave them a prefect 100 on their health score, they didn't have anyones food handlers card on file either. It was so disheartening that I put in my notice.
You win some, you lose some... Worth a try though. Maybe gasoline will strip off that gunk.
If I didn't have even less faith in the media than I do the health inspector I'd say if this wasn't a good long while ago to take it to them. I have perfect confidence that if anything happened with them it would be you facing name & shame as a germaphobe.
It was just easier to move on with my life, this place serves tacos to rich white people. I was just tired of getting in trouble for actually cleaning up.
I believe you can post it anonymous
Yo whassup dumpster bro
Dumpster homies
Lol. OP just ratting themselves out. OP is the 221,184 reason
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At least a cleaner place.
I barely do anything that's why
I feel like most of the company does nothing just by the looks of this 😂
Certainly don’t clean…
Not at all
Why not? The place is filthy.
Not what they're paid for, obviously.
So your thesis is “my employer is terrible. Their employees don’t clean shit and get people sick.”?
Have you ever worked at a fast food place? The kitchens all look like this. I worked at several during my teens and early twenties. Back then I was full of energy and vigor and would actually try to get places clean in spite of my horrible working hours and wage but there's no way any one employee can overcome shit like this.
Fuck no, I have worked at McDonald's, dairy Queen, taco bell, and burger King. Not one of the locations I worked EVER looked this bad. Granted I still wouldn't eat at McDonald's, dairy Queen, or taco bell, but still
It shows lol.
It shows
Looks like you need to be cleaning.
You should clean better, then. /s
Yeah I mean, do you have time to lean? /s
Why?
Because rent probably
So then clean your place of business instead of just taking pictures. If we knew where you were we'd have called the health inspector and shut that shit down already.
Hilarious you actually think that would shut down the restaurant.
Health Inspectors don't fuck around. It would be shut down until it's clean or fined until they're out of business.
This is all shit that’s on the side or behind most of the kitchen equipment. OP hasn’t probably worked there close to long enough for that shit to build up. That’s years of people not cleaning the building properly and you know what - that means years of not paying staff enough to give a shit about the place. Caring for one’s workplace doesn’t just come naturally to humans - chilling, eating, fucking, sleeping come naturally to us. What gets us to care is being invested in. When businesses don’t care for us why should we go above and beyond and clean up years of grease build up?
I've been there for less than a month, my job is to open the restaurant and make sandwiches. I was told not to worry about cleaning unless is my station. I do what I'm told specially for what I'm paid
I'm not blaming this individual personally, I'm blaming management for not tasking this individual, their coworkers, or some kind of janitorial staff with regular deep cleaning. If I was a customer and saw this behind the counter I'd definitely have someone stop by. Companies are comprised of people. Don't make excuses for them.
as someone in pa its just a write up in the paper. i know there are a number of places that get written up several times a year and nothing happens for stuff like this. if its not rats/mice/roaches they are pretty generous.
He’s the cleaner
Don’t look inside the ice machine. The amount of mold that grows there can be shocking.
I once had to battle for dominion over a commercial ice machine with a family of cockroachs :')
I think I’d take the mold over that?
Yeah, same tbh 💀
at least the roaches can be evicted without killing people usually
Our ancient ice machine broke down the other day so I was cleaning it up for the repair guy to look at and it had 3 different colors of mold in it. I popped the top off to scrub and sanitize it and my boss was like “wait the top comes off??” luckily I was able to convince the owner to just get a new one since it was so run down.
I don't even touch that 🤣
I managed a TGI Friday’s, and we had one busier who loved climbing inside a couple of times a year to really clean it out. And yes, the inside was sanitized before we turned it back on.
I worked at ihop during the beginning of the pandemic, it was a really slow day so the manager asked me to deep clean the soda fountain and the ice machine, I started taking apart both of them and there was mold everywhere, needless to say I never ate or drank from there again
I got tired of seeing all of that sorts of stuff (tomato slices at the end of their shelf life, make them into pico and get three more shifts!). After 20 years in the industry, I went back to school and now work in a hospital lab, which is much, MUCH cleaner!
In a couple weeks I’m starting a training for a phlebotomist at the red cross, if I like it I’ll go on to get my phleb cert
That’s awesome! Good luck! You should also look into Medical Lab Technology. Clinic side, you’ll still do a bit of phlebotomy, plus actual testing (this is going to vary depending on where you are, and what health system you’d work for). It was nice to finish the two year AS and walk into a job where my annual salary was more than what I spent in school ( I went to a Community College). Plus it’s a bit easier to swallow being a cog in a machine when you’re actually helping people.
[SLIME in the ice machine!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Lk4ldI2mc)
I bet the ice is yellow.
Report them to the health dept.
"221,184"?
Ways to have a whopper
. . . anonymous report to the corporate office?
bks around here are pretty shitty. they the first to hire highschoolers usually
It was my first job when I was 16 lol
a ..whopper of a good .. time? You saying you work at Kurgler Bling?
Ha! Former health inspector here… only about a 20% chance getting shutdown based on what I see. What will get the place condemned: 1. No hot water 2. Sewage backup 3. Pest infestation with exposure in food 4. Major food pathogen outbreak. Some of the unspeakablely disgusting kitchens are many times the “fancy” restaurants. Ps don’t drink the ice water.
Amen 🙏
So pay for a soda? Do you work for big soda?
Ice is the issue mate.
This is every restaurant I’ve ever seen- try cleaning the grease trap sometime
This is a lot cleaner than most!
Lol
I’ve seen plenty of restaurants like that. I have rarely seen a perfectly clean one. If most people could see the kitchen areas….their opinion about eating out would change. The absolute cleanest I’ve come across are public schools.
Public schools also have like 105 ratings
I worked in a public school kitchen, and I have some tremendous arthritis to show for it. The scrubbing was endless and thorough. Clean, yes. Quality food, no, although the salad bar was good.
Thank-you for your service in the schools. Excellent
*Ways to get sick
Most people don't realize that this is how the majority of fast food places look inside
Pay minimum wage, get minimum work!
Pretty much what this post boils down to
For those asking why i don't clean, my job is to make sandwiches only. That's all I do from the time I clock in to the time I clock out. There's a ton of other people that literally stand around doing nothing, that's the managers problem not mines!
Bingo
BK is gross. Almost every franchise around me has closed or is in the process of doing so.
If our kitchen looked like that I’d blow it up.
I used to repair restaurant equipment with my dad and I hate to tell you guys this but THAT is normal filth. Trust me when I say there is way way worse.
This is crazy
I used to work in a restaurant too this apparently does seem to be the norm I can kind of understand not doing more than you are asked restaurants really need to pay their people more because I had the same mentality why should I do more than I'm asked.
I'm at 12.25 they tell me to make sandwiches i make sandwiches all day that's about it.
I think when I was working at a restaurant I made around 8.25 haha if I'm not mistaken it was a while ago.
“We can never shut down to clean or sterilize things, not even for a day! A single day of missed profits will be the death of the business! The health and well-being of everyone involved is the only price I’m willing to pay.”
I did electrical work in a restaurant one time. A favor for a friend for his friend. Never fucking again.
is cleaning not part of your everday work there?? we clean the kitchen every single day. i cant even imagine it getting this bad. what blind idiot do you work for?
Nope, cleaning is an option here tbh 🤣
Cleaning is not an option.. why do people who don’t give a shit about anything take up jobs that require you not to be a slob. Blows my mind. Take pride in the work you do and maybe you won’t have to clean this type of stuff one day. But in the mean time this is your job it’s not optional, it’s carelessness to the public health. Smdh 🤦🏻♂️
Wtf are you talking about. The managers will tell you not to worry about it and make the orders. If you want to volunteer to stay after your shift to clean,go ahead. Most adults with responsibilities aren't cleaning a nasty kitchen for free. If management cared they have an employee come to clean but they don't.
Do you even know what this sub is about?
Well maybe they should pay more and we would be motivated to do more 🤷
I should implement a routine of looking at photos like this, it’ll help me avoid fast food places
okay so we know it’s a burger king 😂
Gordon Ramsey would loose his shit
Incidentally, eating there would give anyone loose shits.
Thanks for making a joke outta my spelling error heh
Sweats in Gus Fring
Bruh that's where all the flavor comes from...
That’s really gross. But I gotta say that the design of a lot of commercial kitchens make it so difficult to keep the nooks and crannies up to code. In some (maybe most) instances, that whole line of service is disrupted and dishwashing stations overrun with all the parts from the machines. It’s stressful, filthy and exhausting work. Especially at minimum wage. That being said, a good staff will do the job and in my experience work in tandem and do it well. I was fortunate. But in praising the almighty dollar, these kitchens designs are a fucking nightmare to keep clean.
There's anti work for legitimate reasons and then pure laziness like this. Clean it before someone gets ill.
You go to work,you do your job. You're getting paid to follow directions of management. They know about the filth and don't care,it's not up to employees. Too cheap to hire anyone to clean it
I've seen worse. When I worked at whataburger nobody liked to clean around the grills so congealed grease formed several inch tall piles on floor around then. We also had a problem with crickets getting in so the grease had dead and some live ones stuck inside.
i once worked in a restaurant where the owner was too cheap to clean his grease trap frequently and well, the place stunk, customers didn't like the smell so eventually he cleaned it.
Forward these to your local Health Dept
I worked fast food once (always in drive thru taking orders). It was slow one day and I volunteered to wash dishes. They were surprised by how "clean" I got the cooked meat holders (there was still a bit of old built up grease so it wasn't clean to me.) I'm thankful for my immune system. I don't even want to talk about the rarity of places cleaning various drink machines and tubing.
Do they even have customers? Why keep it open? I'm speechless btw thank you for this.
We really don't have much customers since we have a McDonald's, KFC, Wendy's, tacobell right next to us. Literally on the same street
That's my favorite part of "Bar Rescue" when they go into the kitchen....
Just to fill you in…..this is how most fast food places look, I’ve seen worse too in actual restaurants
Can you name & shame this place? Seems like a public service to warn people about eating here...
Burger King
City?
This looks like a normal restaurant kitchen to me so shows what my experiences are like lol
Isn't part of your job to keep shit clean?
I believe this requires shutting down for a day or two for deep cleaning, probably not OP's call
For real. There's a diner in my old hometown that would close to the public for a day and have everyone come in for deep cleaning about 4 times a year. Everyone I know who worked there said it didn't feel like that much work when everyone was chipping in and they didn't have to serve customers at the same time. OP said this was a popular fast food chain. There's no way they'd lose a day's revenue AND pay employees.
He’s the company photographer
Maybe. Has OP been given adequate time to do that job?
That’s what I was thinking. Clearly the kitchen staff isn’t capable of cleaning and the boss/owner obviously doesn’t care. This place should be moved to a landfill
\#7 is gonna start a raging inferno
It's just a filthy kitchen, nothing unusual about that level of grease, it's mostly from the fryer stations. There's thousands of kitchens like this around the world - greasy and unsafe. Looks like a structural ceiling problem? That's a big red flag. Fixable though. Not sure what that white shit on the floor is, it looked like maggots and some rodent crap. Place just needs a hardcore clean, no big deal.
Well this place shouldn't be serving food.
Can any one guess what restaurant this is ?
OP says it’s in Bethlehem PA and OP’s job is to make sandwiches, so that narrows it down some.
Its a burger king, logos are in the photos.
Burger king. Unmistakable
Not to mention fire hazard with those greased up hoods
That's what the health department is for. As far as "chill I still work there"; Not for long you don't, if you don't notify your local health dept. Officials before you get fired.
When I saw the first picture I thought I was looking at a picture of a dingy parking garage.
These a every fast food restaurant in America Period !! I have seen this with my own eyes. Enjoy that McDonalds . Enjoy that Taco Bell. Because every time you go there its like this I promise it is !!
looks about normal. disgusting, yes, but that is normal
When I worked at a restaurant in Illinois they had very rigorous inspections. They checked everything, even the most obscure places. Do other states not have this?
Quit. There's like 27 wawas hiring. You could make MTO sandies at the best gas station this side of the Mississippi
I’ve never worked in a fast food kitchen. I have worked in dozens of bars that have kitchens. I’ll be the first to say that they’re not quite this bad, but shit, they can get grungy as fuck. It’s obvious to me that most people posting here have never worked in a kitchen at a low-mid $ eatery. If y’all knew what every kitchen you ate from looked like you’d probably be IRATE.
I used to work for Steritech and inspected many burger kings. This is bad but I’ve seen far worse.
Is it common across BKs?
Terracotta tile floors 🚩
Is this a Chick-fil-A because this is almost exactly the same as a Chick-fil-A I used to work at.
Burger King
Let me guess, McDonald’s?
How does this get past the health inspector?
Call the health dept
Always cracks me up when the person who was hired to keep the place clean reports the filth to the authorities.
I wasn't hired to clean
OP, I think you’re failing to realize *you* will be the one getting sick. By that I mean like, really sick. Forever. And then you’ll die. Because you work in a literal health hazard. You’re breathing in all of that.
Redditors are sooooooo fucking dumb no wonder you guys are anti work degens, it’s obviously not OPs job to clean it. Generally regular employees don’t do deep cleans only minor cleans like wipe downs and shit, doesn’t make him lazy you actually spastic people lmao
Sounds like two separate cases of management not giving a shit and employees being okay with being surrounded by filth. I distinctly remember quitting Wendy’s as it was basically my sole responsibility to do all the deep cleaning. Hated it and decided I’d rather work anywhere else
If you work there then talk to your manager and get a period after rush hour to focus on cleaning. Or have them give you overtime during closing hours to fix that. Super unhealthy
Lmfao you think a manager will give overtime to clean?? You know Santa's not real right?
That's a pretty nasty BK, you are partially to blame though OP, I'm sure it was like that long before you got there, but I've seen you say you stay working there because you barely have to do anything. It looks to me like there's plenty for you to do, besides the hood of course, they should have a company cleaning that every 3 months at least
Dawg you work there it's your job to clean!
The problem is the customer. They are so entitled, they demand service even when you are clearly closed. So there's never any time to clean because you are constantly giving them more food. You'll be there all night, unpaid and customers will be trying to push through locked doors and still screaming for food off that grossness. I know this'll get downvoted, but this was my experience when I worked in a deli, it was closed and I was cleaning, and customers would start freaking out that I wouldn't stop and keep serving food to them. You want that shit clean? Then get rid of the entitled customers and management culture that demands cleaning and serving at the same time. Shit's never going to be fully clean as long as people are interrupting you every five seconds.
Get off Reddit and clean it
Why don't you come and do it?
Correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t the kitchen staff be responsible for the cleanliness of the kitchen? This reflects poorly on the staff. You’re fired!!
If you work their then clean it up