Tasty food comes from clean kitchens

As you are eating your delicious food, do you ever think about what the kitchen from where it came looks like or even how it was prepared?

When talking about infestations and pest control in my health class, it got me thinking about what the kitchens in restaurants look like. Sure, the dining area may look beautiful and clean, but that does not mean the kitchen is the same way.

My professor also inspects different restaurants, and he tells us about all of the disgusting things he sees. Sometimes it is an infestation of cockroaches; other times it is raw meat dripping into the bowl of salad.

Even something simple can happen, like a glass breaking as you are trying to get ice and glass gets mixed in with the ice. He also told us that some restaurants think they are losing money when he comes in and throws things away that are not good anymore, so they take it out of the trash and try to still sell it to the customers.

I worked at a restaurant for over a year, and I will be the first one to tell you that they have some of the best food you could eat, but the kitchen is not exactly the cleanest. We did not have any raw meat dripping into our salads or any cockroach infestations that I knew of, but we did not have a sink for just washing your hands and the counters were always covered in food.

Everyone was always in such a big rush that no one ever had time to clean up their messes, so dirty dishes would pile up and be scattered throughout the entire kitchen.

We may not have been extremely gross enough to take food out of the trash and try to sell it to a customer, but  the majority of the time people did not wash their hands in the kitchen.

This means when they would wait on multiple tables at a time, they would carry all sorts of bacteria and leftover food from the previous table to the next.

Thinking back on it now, I realize that some of the things we did behind the scenes in the kitchen were extremely gross and unsanitary. However, no matter how disgusting a place may be in the kitchen, people will still go there to eat until one day they get sick from it. Being that as it may, kitchens within restaurants will continue to be the same and everyone will continue to eat there.

Sure, when we eat the food, we obviously do not notice or think about this, but that does not mean it does not exist. The restaurant business world can be a very disgusting, mind-blowing world.

I am not trying to scare you into not eating anywhere ever again. Just make sure the food tastes like it should and keep an eye out for any little critters that may end up on your plate.