30 Dishes People Shouldn’t Buy From Fast Food Places, According To The Employees

Best gas station coffee in America! I always stop there on road trips

The leased coffee machines at my work get cleaned twice a day.

They are supposed to be serviced regularly, but seldom are. At the last place I worked, I removed the front panel and it was choked with mold. Inside, there was a service log. It had been 3 years. By the time I finished cleaning and flushing it, my throat was sore. I've worked in many places where people just don't know and don't care.

SO ACTUALLY it depends on the restaurant I feel like just because the chick Fil a I work at we clean it every single night and every single morning. And I'm not talking of the sani rinse button or whatever. I'm talking we take the thing apart wash it thoroughly then put it back together EVERY night and EVERY morning. If someone doesn't you will get fired.

Someone enlighten me please. What am I looking at here?

if someone asks for ice always inquire if they want fresh or frozen and watch their confused little faces 😈😈😈

Anyone who's ever seen Bar Rescue or Kitchen Nightmares knows this fact. Ditto with the soda gun and holster. About 5 days before you want to go a place reputed to have good food. Make an anonymous call to the Health Dept and tell them there was mold on your ice and when he staff pulled the soda gun for a kid's meal cup, that it had some purple, disgusting goo on it and you were disgusted.

I had no idea that you couldn't bring your own food into movie theatres. Maybe it's a regional issue, but my family and I have had no problem bringing food from home or other stores into theatres.

You aren't obligated to buy food or drink at the theater. Unless stated no outside food or drink you can bring it in. But it's still more fun to hit the dollar store for snacks and drinks and sneak it in. But ya gotta get the large popcorn w butter and salt. It's a must. lol

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I've never been stopped bringing my own food.

In the '60s when drive-in movies were everywhere, we always brought a sack of food and our toddler's potty chair. Didn't have to leave the car to get overpriced concession stand items.

I understand the instinct to bring in outside food, but concessions is where theaters make their money. The ticket price for films usually breaks even.

My crew used to live on the mark-out (expired) sandwiches. Because they didn't pay us enough to afford groceries.

Who thinks the people working at Starbucks are in the back making sandwiches? Obviously they're pre-made and shipped to the stores.

I've eaten their sandwiches from Starbucks. Dry and stale is how I would describe their sandwiches.

Again, bc frozen food is "bad?" Look, if you like the food and don't care about the price, eat it. No one is expecting Starbucks to be fresh.

You could have just said... anything from Starbucks! That place is a scam!!!

ASK HIM WHY!

It's just food service size canned tuna chunks mixed with mayonnaise. If you're doing anything else to it, or mixing old and new batches (which doesn't follow food regs), then that is a single franchise or restaurant problem.

Never eat a tuna sandwich that you didn't make yourself.

Their "chicken" is tainted with soy, NEVER MENTIONED on their signs. I ended up in hospital.

They also got busted for throwing in other bits of random fish.

I worked at McDonald's in 2006. We were open 24/7, very busy place and at that time they did try to clean everything. Well... I know they cleaned the french fry machine and changed the oil, which was quite uncommon in other restaurants. But I don't remember cleaning the milkshake machine, coffee machine and soda fountain ever. I don't think anybody knew how to do that and they were used almost non-stop. I think they got some maintenance only when they broke. I hope they made some changes since.

All of the machines where I worked were regularly cleaned overnight. I only recall the 5am for the fizzy drink machine off the top of my head. Ours was a 6am-10pm location though, so not sure how it works in the 24h ones.

In Germany they get swaped on a regular basis (by Fresenius) Coffee machines have tabs to clean the water part and a liquid for the dairy part.

Never get ice cream from McDonald's. My first job, was there a year. They cleaned it once and it was filled with mold.

If you had any sort of serious allergy why would trust any third party with mitigating cross contamination of food? You seriously expect some 16 year old to adhere to strict food safety standards at some fast food joint?

Or food poisoning. Got super sick twice from them and haven't been back in almost a decade

Sonic is tied with Subway for never order from. Absolutely disgusting 🤮

I have a peanut allergy and I get drinks (like nerd slush) from sonic all the time.

I'd rather it come cold than warm?

The real reason not to ever eat at Jimmy John's is that the owner is an evil right-wing POS who likes to go out and kill animals for sport & fun. Don't give this company a red cent.

I won't eat there because the owner is a big game hunter. F*** that guy.

I got in super trouble from my Oncologist when my friends took a 20 year old me to Chuck E to distract me from having started chemo. He was shouting, 'do you know what kids do in ball pits? The germs, the bacteria!' Never been in a ball pit since.

Chuck E Cheese has a salad bar??!?

Reason numero uno why I don't do buffet and haven't for years.

i just went to chuckie cheese for the first time 2 days ago for my sons birthday. i was kind of surprised both in a good and bad way. good way bc it was clean, well maintained, and everything was topped off and looked as fresh as food can be when its been shipped and put out on display. bad bc not a lot of options as far as ingredients goes. 7/10

Damn, where I work we have to throw out and get new batch of food when the temperature is not right. (Threshold is 73°C straight out of the oven and 63°C when it's been in the bain marie for a while, anything lower than that has to be tossed). Depending on the person working the ovens and their skill in estimating how much is needed, we have a lot of waste during the day;

This is not the case at all locations. My niece works there as a manager, and absolutely makes sure that everything is fresh and the workers adhere to the rules of food safety. She throws things out if past the time it's supposed to be used by, even empties coffee pots if they are past the time limit of Tim's standards. That being said, I have been to some locations that absolutely do not do that.