Chefs unpack: If you see these 10 warning signs, leave the restaurant immediately

It can be so beautiful. In the evening, relax with friends in a restaurant, perhaps drink a glass of wine and talk to each other while enjoying good food.

But the beautiful evening can end abruptly if you bring home food poisoning as a bedtime treat. Chefs and catering staff on Reddit have unpacked how to tell a good restaurant from a bad one and shared the warning signs you should leave the restaurant immediately!

If the restaurant manager lets his employees work with a cold, you have to worry about them sneezing in your food and apparently no replacement has been found, you can also expect to get sick.

If the holes are clogged and the top is dirty, the salt shaker has probably been refilled 100 times without cleaning.

As a former waiter, I can’t stand it when I see other waiters touching clean glasses at the top – right where we start drinking.

Do the employees seem satisfied? Does it seem like they enjoy working there? If the employees are not doing well, the service and food will also be bad. It is worth going to a restaurant where the employees are treated well, because the guests are also treated well there.

Specialized in more than one thing? Not a good idea. An example: a restaurant offers pizza AND sushi. Both are unlikely to be good.

Ask where the oysters on offer come from. If the restaurant doesn’t know, you don’t want those oysters either. This works for all seafood by the way.

As a chef, it’s always a warning sign for me when there are a lot of people at the table, but only a few have eaten yet. This means the kitchen is completely overwhelmed and the food will take forever.

A very large menu is usually not a good sign. Chances are that many ingredients are frozen and not fresh. Moreover, it is difficult to master 40 different dishes. Quality will suffer.

If the restaurant has a visible coffee machine, notice the milk frother. If there is still visible white residue on it, it should not be cleaned after use. Bacteria can grow in the leftover milk. In such a case you should definitely not order coffee there! Such a machine must be thoroughly cleaned every day.

If there is a soda machine, wipe the Sprite dispenser nozzle with a napkin. If pink, brown or orange residue remains, do not use this machine. Brown means that there has been coke in it before and that the machine has not been cleaned properly. Pink or orange residue indicates algae or mold.

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