Restaurant protocol question

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by motion

I eat out a lot, and probably get sick to my stomach 1/3 of the time. This results in a few painful minutes on the loo within an hour or two of eating. I NEVER get sick from food I prepare at home. Does this happen to anyone else?

That my friend is why I so rarely go out to eat. I can count the number of times I have been sick in the last 30 years on one hand. One from the flu shot in 1991, the rest from going out to eat

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by motion

I eat out a lot, and probably get sick to my stomach 1/3 of the time. This results in a few painful minutes on the loo within an hour or two of eating. I NEVER get sick from food I prepare at home. Does this happen to anyone else?

Nope.

I eat out all the time. I can't remember a stomach issues except getting too full. Maybe it is from all my bachelor years eating leftovers that were just 7 day old.

[trekkor]

I have always said: "Don't go out to eat unless you are comfortable with each staff member placing their fingers directly in your mouth".

Now, this includes everyone in the building...

Believe me, there is nowhere near the appropriate amount of hand washing going on behind the scenes.



KT

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by trekkor

I have always said: "Don't go out to eat unless you are comfortable with each staff member placing their fingers directly in your mouth".

Now, this includes everyone in the building...

Believe me, there is nowhere near the appropriate amount of hand washing going on behind the scenes.



KT

That is what your immune system is for!

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by RWebb

probably a health code violation if you had the plate sitting on your table where you could touch it

Winner winner chicken dinner!

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by trekkor

I have always said: "Don't go out to eat unless you are comfortable with each staff member placing their fingers directly in your mouth".

Now, this includes everyone in the building...

Believe me, there is nowhere near the appropriate amount of hand washing going on behind the scenes.



KT

That is why I only dine at hooters!

[widebody911]

I don't harbor any ill will towards them, and I actually liked the food. This could have been FNG oversight.

[john70t]

Good concept. Bad implementation.

A diner could have licked it with their Sars/Aids/etc mouths, and put it back on the plate. It's been done before.
Or Diners could have added a couple drops of liquid acid...as a funny joke....

It's a chain of command thing. Distributor->Restaurant-> Diner.
When something goes wrong, there's a trail.

[peppy]

Unless the item is packaged you can't reuse it in VA.

[aigel]

Originally Posted by motion

I eat out a lot, and probably get sick to my stomach 1/3 of the time. This results in a few painful minutes on the loo within an hour or two of eating. I NEVER get sick from food I prepare at home. Does this happen to anyone else?

This is not normal IMHO.

G

[dad911]

Originally Posted by motion

I eat out a lot, and probably get sick to my stomach 1/3 of the time. This results in a few painful minutes on the loo within an hour or two of eating. I NEVER get sick from food I prepare at home. Does this happen to anyone else?

Close to never, just once, fish at an Italian restaurant about 10 years ago. Used to love the place, but haven't been back. Caught more 'bugs' from the kids when they were young and in school, now rarely get sick, even in crowds, on planes, etc.

Originally Posted by john70t

.......
Or Diners could have added a couple drops of liquid acid...as a funny joke....
.......

Could do the same with Ketchup/mustard/salt/pepper shakers, etc.

I'm not going to stop dining out, or live my life in a bubble.

[strupgolf]

Heck, I've broken apart a Hersery bar many times and passed it around. No problem. ######## This was meant to be a funny, a joke, get it. Maybe not. Oh well.

[JJ 911SC]

Originally Posted by strupgolf

Heck, I've broken apart a Hersery bar many times and passed it around. No problem.

But you are not in the business.

I can smell a law suit...

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by strupgolf

Heck, I've broken apart a Hersery bar many times and passed it around. No problem.

In your home. Nothing gets moved from table to table except the ketchup and mustard and that's not really right either. Open dishes of K & M go to the trash. But some things don't and it creeps me. Like the chutney cruet at an Indian restaurant.

Or anything with a spoon in it that goes table to table. I think they stopped doing that with jams and jellies.

But finger foods? No freakin' way!

[trekkor]

You could sit at a table in the dining room with binoculars, dressed as a waiter.

As soon as you spot someone finishing up with food still on their plate, make your move.
Free meal every night...


KT

[mikeesik]

Originally Posted by motion

I eat out a lot, and probably get sick to my stomach 1/3 of the time. This results in a few painful minutes on the loo within an hour or two of eating. I NEVER get sick from food I prepare at home. Does this happen to anyone else?

Yes.

I most likely cook everything I eat.

[cstreit]

Originally Posted by RWebb

possibly they have a clean & sanitary kitchen and this was just an oversight

while I'd not test that myself, if you like them then a word to the owner would be helpful

if you hate them, or think they are a danger to the public then contact health dept.

Yes, this. ...and if the owner gives you grief, call the health dept anyway. Gross!

[widebody911]

I've sent them an email outlining my concern; we'll see how they react.

[Tobra]

You may hear nothing.

I went to Ella down on K St, got some partially raw chicken and some seafood that was off, smelled bad. Said something to the server, who did not do much. I would have been falling all over myself if that happened to me when I was waiting tables. Wrote a letter addressed to the chef, heard nothing back, and I have not been back. If we do one of our local podiatry association meetings there, I will stop off at McDonald's on the way there.

[mikeesik]

widebody 911.
Why did you not say anything while it happened?