Gross Fast Food Stories

Mine is when I was at a Mcdonalds and saw a worker drop a patty on the ground, pick it up, put it on a bun, and hand it out the drive thru window. You can bet I called the customer service hotline on that dimwit!

I found a slug on a piece of lettuce on my burger at wendy's.

I went to Mc'dicks, and ordered a cheeseburger. I opened it and it was covered in grease...bun and all and it was cold. I just about threw up...i was so grossed out, even when i think about it now i want to gag. I worked at a fast food place, i got rude customers all the time. I just told them to leave though and that i didnt have to serve them. My boss was cool like that and respected my judgement. Im never rude to any one in the service industry, because it sucks having to deal with people all day, especially when it comes to their food.

At the main train station in Rome I got a prosciutto sandwich at one of the bars and the man handing it to me had a big still-bloody not-quite-scabbed-up gash on his hand and I didn't want to be rude and refuse it.  What a dope!  I was freaked out by his hand but ate it anyway and got food poisoning that evening.  At the McDonald's across this same train station, Roma Termini, I ate a seafood salad that wasn't on ice nor refrigerated in anyway, and got food poisoning.  These are two really dumb things I've done re. food.  The McDonald's salads in Italy can be really good though, with salmon and shrimp and good dressing (oil and vinegar in separate packs, good bread sticks too!)

pinthin: "customers shouldnt piss of the workers, but they SHOULDNT have to fear that if they do piss off workers, their food might be severely mishandled. regardless of a customers attitude, a worker has NO RIGHT to mishandle the food. the worker is getting paid at the end of the day"

I just had to add my two cents to that ...

While I agree with you in principle, the fact is that, in the case of a server (not a fast-food worker, but a waiter/waitress), a rude, shi**y customer usually means they're NOT getting paid.  Servers make between $2.50-$3.50/hour in most places.  So, I don't really blame them for acting out.

Of course, the majority of servers are fairly young kids (i.e., >25) who would still do stuff like that.

I was out with a large group of people, and this one guy always tends to get really annoyed with servers.  It was his birthday, and they brought out cake for him.  It was a huge piece that was passed around the table.  I wasn't calorie-counting at the time, and I still said, "No, thanks!"  I figured it had to be contaminated in some way after the way he treated the server.

I was a server for years.  I've seen my share of crazy stuff in kitchens. 

So, I was having lunch with my parents one time at Uncle Bao's (chinese restaurant here) - this was WAY before I even knew what eating healthy was... Anyway, we would always get the buffet because it was pretty cheap and the food there is really good (I LOVE CHINESE FOOD!)... Well, that was the LAST time I got the buffet there.  While we were eating, I saw a little girl (probably between 5 and 7) walk up to the food, pick up a peice of chicken, lick it, make a funny face (like she didn't like what she tasted), and put it back!  I don't blame her completely cuz she's just a kid... I blame the parents for not watching her.  We were inside a packed restaurant and she was wandering around all by herself!

Anyway, I've also seen kids lick the sugar and white powder off of doughnuts at the bakery inside the grocery store and put them back for others to buy.  YUCK!!!

What else?  Oh yeah, the KFC by my house just got shut down because it was INFESTED with roaches and rats!!!  BLEH!!!

One more:  One time, my parents, brothers, boyfriend, and I went bowling at this really cool place by my house.  We had a waitress that took our food and drink orders while we were playing.  I asked her for a diet coke, and when she brought it to me, the straw was in the coke, still wrapped in the plastic!  Ugh, that made me SO mad!  I told my boyfriend and my parents I didn't want it - I used to work fast food (won't say where... we were VERY clean though!), and sometimes when (wrapped) straws would fall on the floor, some of the employees would pick them up and put them back on the counter.  I'm a huge germ-a-fobe, so if ANYTHING ever hit the floor, it went in the trash immediately - and that's that we swept and mopped our floors several times a day!  Anyway, they all made fun of me cuz I didn't want my soda.  I went up to the counter and asked one of the girls (very politely) if I could please have another soda because I thought it was very unsanitary to put the wrapped straws in the drink.  She told me "sure, no problem!"  Then she said (what shocked me) "i don't like that they do that either; but that's what we're all instructed to do by management" *WTH*  It's SO gross.  If you've every worked fast food or any restaurant in general, you know that all of your inventory comes from mass shipments and all of these straws (and cups and plates and bowls, etc) are all stored in HUGE warehouses that I'm sure are homes to rats and roaches and other creatures... YUCK!!!

Anyway, I'm done venting... for now... Lol!

I once went to this popeye's chicken in Toronto and the guy definitely didn't know what he was doing. It's a pretty small popeye chicken so there was one guy at the back and one guy at the cashier counter. After we placed our order the cashier left the counter and went to the back to chat with the guy at the back, leaving his cash register widely open, me and my bf wanted to let him know but he disappeared for like 3 minutes! then the after the cook placed the chicken in the box the cashier guy placed the box into a paper bag, then removed it, placed it in another paper bag, left it on the kitchen table for another 2 minutes, disappeared for another 30 seconds, and came back to us, just to forget to get us our order, then returned to the back, and disappeared for another minute.

We shouldve left that place however we were too hungry to leave. God knows what he was doing before he handled our food...and he was doing everything in super slow motion....like he was on crack or sth...will never go back to that one again.

after finding out the local quiznos had worms all in thier meat and whatnot.. iv been afraid to order out. i mean, if i get really hungry or if my bf wants to do takeout....i wouldnt really think of it but iv been eating out less (which is good).  who knows whats in everything though... even if its a packaged lean cuisine. its all been made in some factory... i try not to think about it =/

This one is really disgusting, so if you are eating or have a weak stomach please dont read any further.  I knew a guy who worked at a fast food taco place and it was very hot one day.  The place did not have air conditioning in the back where the food was prepared and he was sweating buckets.  He took a flour tortilla and wiped his forehead with it and then used it to make a burito.  I never ate there again.

$2.50 - $3.50 an hour! Holy cow. Thank god for Canada. $6.50 minimum + tips.

I try really hard to not think about what I've seen go on in the back of restuarants. I never worked fast food but I can't imagine they would be better than other restuarants. Picking burgers up off the floor and putting them back on the grill was pretty normal. And yeah, if I'm going to piss off a server, I will do it after I get my food.

Once I went to McDs and order french fries.  The guy gets them and as he is putting them in the bag, I notice big warts all over his hands.  I thought I would die.  I threw them out in the nearest trash can.

My bf worked at McDs and once she was making egg mcmuffins.  When she craked the eggs, half deformed chickens came out onto the grill.  Never eaten one since.

after working in numerous restaurants and seeing what goes on behind the scenes (staff not washing hands enough, dropping food and still using it, re-using the bread basket, etc) it makes me nauseous to eat out...i barely go to chain places like TGIF, PF Changs, etc. It just makes me think of that movie "waiting"

Thank god for strong immune systems.  Being a former employee of a couple of fast food places, those places need the addictive pleasure of cheese, mayo, and fat just to keep people from thinking about what happens in the back of the house.  Just remember, every restaurant has some 'special mayonaise' somewhere.  *shudder*

oh my !you guys need to make friends with some better places!

lol

i never had anything gross happen. but i only eat at places where i know who works there. i have seen roaches...but thats really everywhere in a city. none in my food.

and i kinda think its funny that grosses us all out..but we are eating cow butts and mechanically separated chicken thats has fecal matter in it. food is pretty all around gross...i would probably die of i had to really kill and prepare my own food. so bring on the floor burgers.
haa haa

one of my old bosses said he worked at a pizza place where a male...well..emptied his manjuice on a pizza (not pee). he quit that night. i still pick apart every pizza i get to see. askdjhasjkdh
that is just SIIIIIIIICK.

I was hungry a few min. ago but then I read this and I am soo sick. What a great strategy to use if I ever feel like binging lol

Ok this is not a fast food place but I was at Weis Market and got a salad from the salad bar. I brought it to the cashier and when she went to weigh it she spilled 1/2 of it all over the counter area. She brushed it back into the container and I thought she was going to throw it away but no she puts it back on the scale. I just stood there with m jaw hanging open in shock as she rings it up. The lady I was with recovered from shock first and said "I think she will want to get a fresh salad" and the cashier was like "oh" kinda surprised . I never said a word just went and got a new salad and came back. It was very bizarre.

Here is something gross for you:

My elemetary school (k-5) used to have mcdonalds for lunch... EVERYDAY.  And instead of french fries they had "munchies" which were french fries that were smashed in a crimping pattern and then deep fried.  I was sooooo angry with my mom when I was little for making me take food to school instead of getting mcdonalds, now I couldn't thank her more. (FYI she is a cafeteria lady at a school where they still make the food fresh daily, good stuff too!)  Gosh, could you imagine how big I could be? hahaha

Needless to say, they don't have it anymore, not that their new food choice is much better.

And they wonder where people get their bad eating habits from?!?

I was ordered a drink at pretty fancy place. When it came to my table there was the biggest roach/bug thing in it I've ever seen. It was almost the length of the glass. Needless to say the restaurant was very apologetic. What I can't figure out is how nobody noticed!

I also got a mcchicken sandwich once when I was a pre-teen. It tasted kind of funny and after a few bites I thought to take a look. My "meat" was made completely of fat. I mean completely! When I took it up to the counter and showed the workers, I thought they were going to puke! I got a whole bunch of free McD's coupons for that one.

I worked at a local fast food place when I was in my late teens to 20ish and had a customer come back in to tell me she found hair in her food. Except it was a short black piece of hair and my hair (at the time) was long and blonde (but kept up so not to get in food) and I was the one cooking it. Nice try lady.

OK, and I have to admit this...one time when I was working at the place, one of the "higher ups" was in our store visiting. Now let me say, this guy was a real bastard. He was rude to everyone, nasty, screamed at us, barked out orders instead of asking you to do something etc etc. Just an all around a-hole, I couldnt stand him - and Im the kind of person who can get along with pretty much everyone. So, he comes in one morning and barks out a breakfast order for me to make for him (it was a ton of food and everything it seems had to be done a certain particular way). While I was cooking the french toast, when I flipped it, it went on the floor. Yep, you guessedt it. I picked it up and put it right back on the plate. I knew he would literally wolf it down so fast he would never know. Was it wrong & gross? Yes. Did I feel better exacting my little revenge? Yes. =)

I got a job once as a server in one of the nicer restaurants in my area.  My first (and consequently last) night after closing the girl training comes to me with a bucket of water that we'd been using pretty well all day to wipe up spills and clean out seats with.  By this time the water inside was just nasty and black.  She sits it down, grabs a tray and runs around picking up all the sauce bottles off the tables and come back to me and the bucket.  You know how the ketchup in a nice restaurant always looks like a new bottle even though it's half full?  Well I learned how they get that way that night.  With a once white, but now black rag, a bucket of cold, filthy water, and a finger right down the opening and inside of the lid.  I never went back, either to work or to eat, and if I can't get packets of whatever condiments, sauces, or dressings I want I do without. 

Well this prolly isn't gross but oh well.

I got KFC New Years eve eve a few years ago.  I ended up spending my new years eve stuck on the couch, throwing up 21 times.  Needless to say I have been back, and that was over 2 years ago.

Also, I went with my family to this little italin resturant. I order a little cheese pizza because they had really good pizza. Well, I bit in a found a little black hair. I freaked and immediatly lost my appitete.  I took the extras home in a box because I didnt want to cause a scene and the box just sat in the fridge for about 2 weeks.

Finally, I went to quizno's once and ordered a simple chicken salad.  When I got my salad, it was completlely frozen, the chicken wasn't even thawed and the lettuce seriously had ice on it.  Of course I would have felt bad if I said something, so I just took it, ate a little, then threw it away.