Ladies, I’m back and ready to ruin something else in your life and this time it’s the reputation of one of your go-to places to eat and all thanks to a Reddit thread in which I was able to gather some of the most delicious and juicy dirt from some of your favorite restaurant chain employees. From slimy vegetables to dry old chili meat, we’ve got it all. Get ready to have your worst dreams come to life. Although it’s been said to not believe everything you read on the internet because hey, for all we know it’s not even half true but you can never be too cautious. A user under the name of CraveKnowledge created a thread asking “Restaurant chain workers, what dish should we not order and why?” and the results were pretty great. Honestly, I’d strongly advise you stay clear from this article if you’re an avid restaurant partaker but then I’d also recommend you keep yourself well aware of what it is you’re jamming down your throat and on what exactly is going on behind your order.
1. Denny’s:
flysoup84: I worked at Denny’s for years. Everything comes frozen (even the avocados, which are then microwaved,) the gravy is powder stired into boiling water, nacho meat microwaved. Store to store can vary from cleanliness, but at mine I suggest avoiding the scrambled eggs, nachos, corn hash, sausage, French toast and waffles (especially the wheat or whatever custom mix they have.) I occasionally glanced at the menus and was surprised at how much they charge.
2. Papa John’s:
Disolusion: I used to work at Papa John’s. You’re gambling with mushrooms, slimy or not, we’re using em I guess.
3. Panda Express:
ShorforAlec: Most of the food at Panda Express is kept in a more sanitary environment than you would expect but I wouldn’t get the mixed veggies, fairly often we would get shipments of carrots that were clearly bad, like gooey and moldy but I was told to cut around the gross parts and then the carrots still got used. Also the blancher rarely gets cleaned or properly and gets used to clean off the wok ladles after every other dish gets made so there’s usually debris from other dishes just sitting in the water.
4. Taco Bell:
917starlette: Worked at Taco Bell for way too long. Obviously nothing is top of the line, but I never ate anything with beans or red sauce. They sit out, get all nasty and crusty, and then the workers just pour hot water in it. By the end of the day it’s just recycled crusties. The beans aren’t as bad because they go through more, but that red sauce is disgusting.Red sauce is in the Mexican pizzas, burrito supremes , bean burritos, etc. Avoid that shit
Edit: the red sauce is not in the Mexican pizzas, but there is pizza sauce. If anything, this stuff is worse because they only use it for the pizzas. Grows a thick crust throughout the day
5. TGI Friday’s:
goodbyeshrimp : Basically anything from Fridays. It’s almost all frozen, your lobster, soup, veggies – all microwaved. If any of your food isn’t hot enough, microwave. Plus if you order fries, anyone who walks through the kitchen and sees the plate on expo probably ate a good portion of them.At my restaurant, they kept cooked and raw meat literally right next to each other, but wondered why people complained about getting sick. All around distasteful.
Also anything “vegetarian” actually isn’t. All the soups have meat or meat bases in them.
And 85% of the time your food has been touched by hands that likely weren’t recently washed. Plating the food before it’s served means one of the staff touched it with bare hands, because they’re too lazy to use gloves. I never ate anything there when I worked there.
6. Sonic:
fleebles: ANY of the wings from sonic. It is our lowest quality meat. Just ask for some popcorn chicken with wing sauce on it. Don’t subject yourself to sonic wing meat.
7. Subway:
WASD_Burn: I will preface this by saying it has been years since I worked there but here goes. Subway. Stay away from anything with mayo on or in it.We used to get our food shipments from a major distributor. We’d get our mayo in enormous bags. I started to notice in many bags that there were these lumps that got thrown away. One day I picked one out to examine. It was spongy and kind of yellowy. We began referring to this as the mayonnaise meat.
It will be in the squirt containers, in the tuna salad, etc. I saw this in multiple stores. Also those veggie patties were foul.
Edit: I want to clarify that this was in the late 90s and early 2000s. It’s been a long time and I’m sure they’ve fixed this. I still can’t eat anything other than the spicy Italian or the steak and cheese subs.