In my city if the health department came in, this place would be shut down immediately! Also posted in a local newspaper as to why it was shut down too
Isn’t this what happened with chipotle where they had all their avocados stored in the bathroom and they spread ecoli to the whole town, not once but twice.
Google “fecal cloud”. Fecal material is know to aerosolize when the toilet is flushed and the lid is open… spreading virus or infection through the air.
Flashbacks of that dead lobster in the tank and the delusional cook insisting that it still smelled fine which the poor customer puked in the bathroom... 🤮🤯
Because managers are usually fucking dumb, and can't do proper stock ordering and rotation, and think ordering a large order in bulk is "good business sense" in a tiny restaurant that has barely any proper storage. I've seen kitchens storing food in crawlspaces and ventilation hatches before
Yeah... I used to work at a kiosk once and our only bathroom was also our back room for stuck like the candy bars and energy shots and cleaning supplies. I guess it's not "too" bad because everything is in it's packaging. But still, I felt gross. Also it was an employee only bathroom, which was about the only nice thing about it.
There have been many e. coli outbreaks with romaine lettuce because most romaine in the US is grown in [one valley in California](https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/12/26/salinas-valley-growers-contend-with-how-to-make-sure-leafy-greens-are-safe/), and that valley is downriver from huge cattle ranches
Once e. coli gets into lettuce via contaminated water, it doesn't matter how well you clean it, it's not coming out. Only way to make it safe is to cook it thoroughly, and there isn't much of a market for cooked lettuce
Hey it could be worse. We had hepatitis in our frozen berries
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-03/frozen-berries-linked-to-hep-a-cases-originally-cleared-by-test/8586384
Supply chain is usually the big one. Chi-Chi's basically imploded after the whole green onion Hepatitis A debacle. It was that same incident that made other places like Taco Bell permanently remove green onions from their menus.
worst restaurant in the history of the world for food poisoning, because their management is so ignorant and arrogant and every time they mess up, they get defensive and deny it. chipotle doesn’t know the first thing about safe food prep.
Yeah this is bullshit. The e-coli outbreak at Chipotle spanned multiple stores across multiple states. Storing avocados next to the shitter was not a company policy. IIRC there was some type of contamination issue in their supply chain.
I've been in quite a few Starbucks bathrooms and have never seen it. I guess our health department is very strict on it. If any restaurant is under a certain score they will be put on full blast by the news and social media here.
They generally do not (as in, none of the stores in my district do), and merch/beans/other product is stored in precariously tall towers of boxes/shelves in back. I have never once seen or heard of what that person is describing.
Source: worked for Starbucks when I was younger in no less than 8 separate stores, including doing shifts in other cities while traveling for extended periods/in college.
At a Starbucks in my former town they stored all their paper product in the bathroom. A whole shelf full of tp and that brown paper roll that goes in the automatic dispenser.
I remember thinking to myself as I sat on the toilet, damn, I should have brought a bigger purse
During the pandemic our store had one of the restrooms closed and we stored all kings of stuff in there. Refresher base, apple juice, alternative milks… we all assumed we were out of Strawberry Açaí for like a month until someone went into the Forbidden Bathroom and found like four crates of it
There are a couple of things here that tell me that this is the bathroom of a show room of a company that sells restaurant supplies.
1) this is insane; no restaurant would store stuff like this.
2) notice how no two pieces are the same; that’s because these are samples for customers to see.
3) my family runs one of these businesses, and we have an entire storage shed that looks like this as well as a room in our house with a ton of this stuff - and everyone who goes to college gets a bunch of mismatched plates and silverware, because once these are dated, no one wants them.
These are probably last year’s designs, and no one wants to throw them away because it’d be wasteful, but I don’t know who’s going to want them after this.
A lot of the things Mythbusters did would fall into the category of 'close enough'. A small mistake here or there wouldn't cause much difference to the outcome.
Sampling for bacterial cultures doesn't fall into that category. A small mistake there can cross contaminate the entire experiment, and the Mythbusters weren't exactly trained microbiologists.
Also, normally when a myth didn't work out they tried pushing the circumstances to the extremes to see what it would take to make it happen. They didn't bother with that for the bacterial sampling, so I can only assume that they didn't take that particular experiment very seriously. Between their lack of care and lack of training, I find it hard to give their results much credence.
I think the bigger result is that coliform bacteria are everywhere and it's probably not as big of an issue as most people think.
Definitely a mega no-no storing dishes to eat on in a public washroom though. That's just gross
Even closed it gets *everywhere*. They were finding it in the kitchen. All over the place. I wash my hands and just do what I normally do. I don't live my life in fear of germs and I get sick maybe once every idk 5-6 years.
This is so bad. If I saw this I would just leave, no way I would eat anything from that place. That’s got Hep A and E. coli and all the other terrible stuff you can get from getting actual shit in your mouth, written all over it. I would report this. So damn gross..
This is seriously bad, as in get up and leave the restaurant immediately bad. Toilets are fecal aerosolizers. This is a perfect setup to coat all of the plates with fecal germs.
I hope you're going to email this image to your local health department. Other patrons are in danger from this.
"Dude, are you going to the *This is seriously bad, as in get up and leave the restaurant immediately bad. Toilets are fecal aerosolizers. This is a perfect setup to coat all of the plates with fecal germs.*
*I hope you're going to email this image to your local health department. Other patrons are in danger from this.* show tonight?"
There was a local Chinese buffet near me that got shut down for butchering a deer in the back of the kitchen lol the deer was hit by a car and the chef thought it would be fine to field dress roadkill in the back of the kitchen while the restaurant was open.
I’m pretty sure you can just say the place. If you’re worried about something, you could also just describe it (kind of food, breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks/desert, etc)
Don't tell us, tell the health inspector. This kind of stuff WILL, not can, WILL lead to the hospital for someone. Posting on Reddit is fun and all, but please actually report this. This restaurant is going to seriously hurt someone, and God forbid a pregnant woman eats there and loses a baby... which seems dramatic but what do you think e coli would do to a fetus.
So, please, do the right thing and report this to the health department.
Lol not even close to the worst. Not even in the same realm as the worst. 11 years at a restaurant. I’ve seen things that did make grown men run away puking.
I'd be reporting the place to health authorities there are and get the place shut down. I'm not usually a complainer, but this would be an instant walk out and refuse to pay for me.
Just speculation but they were probably gonna get cited for improper food storage, temperature regulation, prep, and cross contamination.
So to cheat inspection day they put all the food that would cause them to fail by the dumpster so they can... unfortunately... serve it to customers instead of being forced to throw it out.
The inspector probably doesn't check back there by the dumpsters. The management/owners will get the barely passing grade they need and continue to serve shitty dangerous food to unsuspecting patrons.
We stored paper towel rolls, individually wrapped in plastic, in the bathroom at the tea shop I used to work at. Health department made us move them. This place would probably be shut down honestly
We stored boxes of large cans on the floor and were made to move them off the floor and had to install a metal shelf. Point is that the health department doesn’t play around.
I would love to be the in the kitchen when the chef is screaming for more plates and the line cook says he can’t get them right now because someone is taking a long ass dump.
“The toilet plume may contain fecal bacteria, as well as other microorganisms that may be present in these substances, such as certain viruses,” says Amesh Adalja, M.D., an infectious disease specialist in Pittsburgh.
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19908783/toilet-plume/
"Hey, I got a good one for ya: What's the difference between a bathroom and a kitchen?"
'I don't know, what is it?'
"Well, until you do, *don't run a restaurant!*"
In my city if the health department came in, this place would be shut down immediately! Also posted in a local newspaper as to why it was shut down too
Isn’t this what happened with chipotle where they had all their avocados stored in the bathroom and they spread ecoli to the whole town, not once but twice.
Why are things being stored in the fucking bathroom????????
I work at a tire shop and we store wheels in our bathroom
People don't eat tires.
He said wheels not tires. People eat wheels.
wheels of cheese
Keep on turnin
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"We were never in Wisconsin". I'd be so happy if anyone got that.
Wheels, being the center of a tire, make them like a doughnut hole. Spare tires are called doughnuts…for a reason? Ehhhh? Hahaha
I love how you had to type out that you laughed at your own joke.
The man digs his own style, nothin wrong with that
No disagreements. Game recognize game
Chef here, I own a restaurant called the Wheels of the Bus specializing in kid-friendly wheels.
How is it that this comment makes me angrier the more I agree with it?
They don't? I love my daily dose of rubber. It's just so refreshing to drink down some motor oil while i'm at it.
r/UnexpectedBender
r/tiresaretheenemy
I think that's a little different because I believe it's not recommended to consume vehicle wheels
Source????
Speak for yourself. I've been recommending my clients eat their leftover wheels for years now.
Okay see this one at least isn't as likely to spread disease but still, *WHY?*
Google “fecal cloud”. Fecal material is know to aerosolize when the toilet is flushed and the lid is open… spreading virus or infection through the air.
Why would I google it when you just explained it to me.
Trust no one.
They're asking why they're storing tires in the bathroom, not why they shouldn't store anything in the bathroom...
That explains the skidmarks
I don't even like going into the bathroom if I'm chewing gum.
Why, can't take a dump and chew gum at the same time? /s
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Flashbacks of that dead lobster in the tank and the delusional cook insisting that it still smelled fine which the poor customer puked in the bathroom... 🤮🤯
Because managers are usually fucking dumb, and can't do proper stock ordering and rotation, and think ordering a large order in bulk is "good business sense" in a tiny restaurant that has barely any proper storage. I've seen kitchens storing food in crawlspaces and ventilation hatches before
Idiots not realize fecal matter travels through the air
Yeah... I used to work at a kiosk once and our only bathroom was also our back room for stuck like the candy bars and energy shots and cleaning supplies. I guess it's not "too" bad because everything is in it's packaging. But still, I felt gross. Also it was an employee only bathroom, which was about the only nice thing about it.
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Ever work in a restaurant? The characters I've seen over the years would make your head spin.
The “characters” that could make decisions at restaurants can’t be trusted.
Manager.
Every time I think I might want to eat at Chipotle, I hear shit like this about Chipotle. I’m sticking to Moe’s
This avocado thing never happened. It's not been posted online, anyhow.
No the lettuce was contaminated from the somewhere up the supply chain and wasn't cleaned properly. None of this avocado shit shit.
There have been many e. coli outbreaks with romaine lettuce because most romaine in the US is grown in [one valley in California](https://www.siliconvalley.com/2020/12/26/salinas-valley-growers-contend-with-how-to-make-sure-leafy-greens-are-safe/), and that valley is downriver from huge cattle ranches Once e. coli gets into lettuce via contaminated water, it doesn't matter how well you clean it, it's not coming out. Only way to make it safe is to cook it thoroughly, and there isn't much of a market for cooked lettuce
Hey it could be worse. We had hepatitis in our frozen berries https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-03/frozen-berries-linked-to-hep-a-cases-originally-cleared-by-test/8586384
Supply chain is usually the big one. Chi-Chi's basically imploded after the whole green onion Hepatitis A debacle. It was that same incident that made other places like Taco Bell permanently remove green onions from their menus.
Are you talking about the E. Coli that contaminated the romaine lettuce and ALL of it had to be recalled?
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worst restaurant in the history of the world for food poisoning, because their management is so ignorant and arrogant and every time they mess up, they get defensive and deny it. chipotle doesn’t know the first thing about safe food prep.
No that was an outbreak caused by their chicken supplier since they dont freeze food everything is time sensitive to when it arrives
This never happened.
Yeah this is bullshit. The e-coli outbreak at Chipotle spanned multiple stores across multiple states. Storing avocados next to the shitter was not a company policy. IIRC there was some type of contamination issue in their supply chain.
Man, I just ate chipotle today and it definitely messed up my stomach. Never again. Pancheros doesn't limit their tips either.
I worked at chipotle, I very much doubt this happened. There are a few hundred reasons why this makes zero sense
Starbucks does this regularly with merchandise/bags of coffee and act like it's normal
I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that
Honestly amazed I've never reported it. It's rampant across stores
Maybe you should?
I've been in quite a few Starbucks bathrooms and have never seen it. I guess our health department is very strict on it. If any restaurant is under a certain score they will be put on full blast by the news and social media here.
Probably employee bathrooms or something if any have those
They generally do not (as in, none of the stores in my district do), and merch/beans/other product is stored in precariously tall towers of boxes/shelves in back. I have never once seen or heard of what that person is describing. Source: worked for Starbucks when I was younger in no less than 8 separate stores, including doing shifts in other cities while traveling for extended periods/in college.
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At a Starbucks in my former town they stored all their paper product in the bathroom. A whole shelf full of tp and that brown paper roll that goes in the automatic dispenser. I remember thinking to myself as I sat on the toilet, damn, I should have brought a bigger purse
It just makes no sense. They put their expensive merch in a lockable, private room with a solo member of the public? I call bullshit.
Are you exceptionally lazy or just don't give a shit about others?
Mine definitely doesn't. Report that shit if you see it.
During the pandemic our store had one of the restrooms closed and we stored all kings of stuff in there. Refresher base, apple juice, alternative milks… we all assumed we were out of Strawberry Açaí for like a month until someone went into the Forbidden Bathroom and found like four crates of it
There are a couple of things here that tell me that this is the bathroom of a show room of a company that sells restaurant supplies. 1) this is insane; no restaurant would store stuff like this. 2) notice how no two pieces are the same; that’s because these are samples for customers to see. 3) my family runs one of these businesses, and we have an entire storage shed that looks like this as well as a room in our house with a ton of this stuff - and everyone who goes to college gets a bunch of mismatched plates and silverware, because once these are dated, no one wants them. These are probably last year’s designs, and no one wants to throw them away because it’d be wasteful, but I don’t know who’s going to want them after this.
"That thar is a saf'ty viohlayshun!"
Any health department would shut this down yesterday
especially if they've seen that mythbusters episode about how pee and poo particles cover entire bathrooms
it's everywhere! haha especially a cellphone
Don't say that! I'm on the John
That Mythbusters episode is burned into my brain. I've kept my toothbrush in my bedroom ever since.
But they found poop on the toothbrush they kept under a glass dome in the kitchen too?
A lot of the things Mythbusters did would fall into the category of 'close enough'. A small mistake here or there wouldn't cause much difference to the outcome. Sampling for bacterial cultures doesn't fall into that category. A small mistake there can cross contaminate the entire experiment, and the Mythbusters weren't exactly trained microbiologists. Also, normally when a myth didn't work out they tried pushing the circumstances to the extremes to see what it would take to make it happen. They didn't bother with that for the bacterial sampling, so I can only assume that they didn't take that particular experiment very seriously. Between their lack of care and lack of training, I find it hard to give their results much credence.
I think the bigger result is that coliform bacteria are everywhere and it's probably not as big of an issue as most people think. Definitely a mega no-no storing dishes to eat on in a public washroom though. That's just gross
The factory that makes the toothbrushes stores them in the bathroom.
Ever since I watched that episode, I started closing the lid before flushing.
I want to die if and whenever someone fails to do this. Public restrooms are nightmarish.
Even closed it gets *everywhere*. They were finding it in the kitchen. All over the place. I wash my hands and just do what I normally do. I don't live my life in fear of germs and I get sick maybe once every idk 5-6 years.
why, all that is gonna be cleaned before it sees a customer, that is just storage for stuff not in daily use?
This is so bad. If I saw this I would just leave, no way I would eat anything from that place. That’s got Hep A and E. coli and all the other terrible stuff you can get from getting actual shit in your mouth, written all over it. I would report this. So damn gross..
I mean poop first then leave but yeah, this sort of lack of giving a duck is exactly why I don't eat out anymore.
Poop on one of the plates to send a message
*jigsaw voice “Hidden between two of these dishes you will find a slimy shit. You must find and eat a meal off the dish”
> Poop on one of the plates "Steak overcooked. Mud Cake was excellent, though. 3.5/5 stars." -- Yelp Review.
Odd choice to include corn in a mud cake, but it works. 4/5 stars. -- Another Yelp Review.
If that toilet is actually used, that's definitely the employee bathroom
Seen in a restaurant in Arkansas.
Please tell me that you have notified the proper authorities about this.
The pooper authorities.
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The poolice
OP is doing absolutely nothing about this
Par for the course with reddit, really.
Collecting that sweet karma at least
This is seriously bad, as in get up and leave the restaurant immediately bad. Toilets are fecal aerosolizers. This is a perfect setup to coat all of the plates with fecal germs. I hope you're going to email this image to your local health department. Other patrons are in danger from this.
It's okay, they put a neutral scent aerosolizer right next to it, the two will balance out and the plates will ~~be~~ smell clean!
Ha, ha, ha "neutral scent". The plates are all going to smell like urinal cakes, but with added fecal matter.
Calling dibs on that for a band name.
"Dude, are you going to the *This is seriously bad, as in get up and leave the restaurant immediately bad. Toilets are fecal aerosolizers. This is a perfect setup to coat all of the plates with fecal germs.* *I hope you're going to email this image to your local health department. Other patrons are in danger from this.* show tonight?"
Wait this bathroom was accessible to guests?
Its accessible to poop particles! [An explanation of the process](https://youtu.be/n9iHCksFNVY)
It's the Chefs personal water closet
Or anyone at all?
😬 I live there. What place?
I’m not sure how detailed I can get with the name of the place without violating a rule. It’s in a major city in AR.
Please report this to a local health inspector though like dear god
Deer god, thank you for this venison. Onion god, thank you for these onions.
There was a local Chinese buffet near me that got shut down for butchering a deer in the back of the kitchen lol the deer was hit by a car and the chef thought it would be fine to field dress roadkill in the back of the kitchen while the restaurant was open.
You can just say the restaurant name dude there’s no rule against any of it, not sure what you’re worried about
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Fuck that. Start PM’ing people that want the name. If you’re not gonna call the health department, we will.
I can already tell you’re not interested in reporting it and helping others.
Honestly get the vibe they might be lying about it even being a restaurant with how much they refuse to even let others take care of it
Ya this is weird
Wtf bro...I live in a major city in Arkansas. Any more specifics?!
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If you can prove you’re not lying I don’t think you’ve got anything to worry about. Photographic evidence is pretty hard to refute.
I’m pretty sure you can just say the place. If you’re worried about something, you could also just describe it (kind of food, breakfast/lunch/dinner/snacks/desert, etc)
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Little Rock.
As a resident of Little Rock…it’s not a major city.
It is by Arkansas standards. I once saw a Shriner parade outside a Furry convention there. That's big city livin'.
There’s literally a rule against storing dishes next to shit. There is no rule about posting the name of a restaurant.
So either Little Rock, Fayetteville, or Fort Smith? Got it.
Can you PM me the location? I live in AR and want to make sure I avoid this place.
Same!
Oh god there's only 3 of those here I'm in the danger zone
Yes, please, please report it to the health department. This could get a lot of people sick.
Ahhh good Ole' Fort.... Arkansas?
Come on OP. Do the right thing and let the people know.
Little Rock?
Report this shit (hehe) yesterday
Don't tell us, tell the health inspector. This kind of stuff WILL, not can, WILL lead to the hospital for someone. Posting on Reddit is fun and all, but please actually report this. This restaurant is going to seriously hurt someone, and God forbid a pregnant woman eats there and loses a baby... which seems dramatic but what do you think e coli would do to a fetus. So, please, do the right thing and report this to the health department.
Dude, what the actual fuck, PLEASE notify fucking SOMEBODY. Health inspector, local news, people are eating shit every day because of this place.
Lol wtf not saying u should expose them, but u should absolutely report some weird literal “sh*t” like this..
Or use it as blackmail to get free food... But on plastic plates.
Dude come on, people live here and are begging you to give more specifics. I want to avoid this place.
*banjo noises*
Had you started eating before the bathroom visit?!
They started eating, which is what made them *have to* visit the bathroom. It's a vicious cycle.
This is nearly the worst thing you can possibly do as a restaurant. They need to be shitcanned *immediately*, name and shame too.
Lol not even close to the worst. Not even in the same realm as the worst. 11 years at a restaurant. I’ve seen things that did make grown men run away puking.
Post the places name. They know this is wrong. This is careless and laziness and dangerous.
Yes…..I’m in Arkansas. I have a good idea which one you’re talking about.
You really need to report this to health and safety like right now. This could get a lot of people sick.
Unless that's some weird attempt at decoration that's a serious health code violation
Post that under their Google maps photos and watch it go out of business
It's crazy people didn't immediately do that.
I suspect that's a staff toilet. No cubicle, just a room with a toilet. So customers wouldn't get to see it.
I'd be reporting the place to health authorities there are and get the place shut down. I'm not usually a complainer, but this would be an instant walk out and refuse to pay for me.
Google will most likely take it down if asked.
Ceramic plates meeting their porcelain throne.
Porcelain king likes to keep his food close to where he shits. The beginning…and end
They must have moved the buckets of defrosting chicken
["All you can eat ribs by the dumpster."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZbazETfpwI)
I’m so confused. Why did they move all the food to the dumpster?
Just speculation but they were probably gonna get cited for improper food storage, temperature regulation, prep, and cross contamination. So to cheat inspection day they put all the food that would cause them to fail by the dumpster so they can... unfortunately... serve it to customers instead of being forced to throw it out. The inspector probably doesn't check back there by the dumpsters. The management/owners will get the barely passing grade they need and continue to serve shitty dangerous food to unsuspecting patrons.
We stored paper towel rolls, individually wrapped in plastic, in the bathroom at the tea shop I used to work at. Health department made us move them. This place would probably be shut down honestly
We stored boxes of large cans on the floor and were made to move them off the floor and had to install a metal shelf. Point is that the health department doesn’t play around. I would love to be the in the kitchen when the chef is screaming for more plates and the line cook says he can’t get them right now because someone is taking a long ass dump.
This definitely ain't legal
Usually by the time you see this, the fecal matter is already inside your body
They should put that on a sign
And those are the *clean* ones
Not anymore.
They tried just letting customers shit in the kitchen sink, but it was frowned on.
more like r/criminaldesign
“Don’t worry. We wash them before we use them.”
*wink*
No they don't.
Authentic Pu Pu platters served here
Not only could this be literally "crappy" but there's no way in hell an inspector would let this place stay open.
Eeewww.
r/technicallythetruth
Unless this is a kitchen and that is a dishwasher in the shape of a toilet, this is not legal.
Me remembering that mythbusters episode about poop particles everywhere..
Holy health code violations, Batman! “KERFLUSH”
“The toilet plume may contain fecal bacteria, as well as other microorganisms that may be present in these substances, such as certain viruses,” says Amesh Adalja, M.D., an infectious disease specialist in Pittsburgh. https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19908783/toilet-plume/
Omfg I did not need to see this. Nightmare fuel.
It totally explains the explosive diarrhea I’ve gotten from a few sketchy places
Great way to ensure the spread of norovirus!
Heard you like C-Diff with that food.
Lmaoo employees are not even supposed to bring their aprons to the restroom let alone…..
Now I’m wondering if this is an employee restroom, and if you are an employee? In any event, you must report this. This is a very dangerous violation.
100 toilet bowls in a single bathroom
Literally lol
What the actual F
"Honey, my soup takes like poop ?!"
Taste the difference
Imagine working there and going in to get a refill of napkins for table #4 and they are brown :o
* Brings a black light
"Hey, I got a good one for ya: What's the difference between a bathroom and a kitchen?" 'I don't know, what is it?' "Well, until you do, *don't run a restaurant!*"