Tuesday, June 30, 2020

AskReddit Thread: Buffet Workers' Horror Stories


Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the gnarliest things that buffet workers have witnessed. Buffets certainly attract all kinds of monstrous food creations. On top of that, the customers can get real interesting. 

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Text - which_spartacus • 339d 3 1 Award Years ago, I worked at an all-you-can-eat country buffet in South Carolina. I was a busboy. One day, I went to a table. It was a mess, as per usual. It looked to be a large family/group of families of around 12 people or so. The thing that stuck it in my memory is that whenever they had finished with what they were going to eat, they would scrape their plate and use it again. Scrape their plates... onto the floor next to their chairs. So next to each chair

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Text - ASuitofT51PowerArmor • 339d I bus at a slightly nicer resteraunt. On Fridays and Sundays we offer a prime rib and crab leg buffet, among a salad bar, hot and cold entrées, and a desert bar. It's honestly pretty nice and our buffet runner keeps anyone from doing ungodly things to the buffet. But the one incident that will always stand out to me was when this family of five came in. From the moment they came in to the moment they left, they ate as many crab legs as they possibly could. Thei

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Text - sixpackshaker• 339d My first job was as a dishwasher in an all you can eat fried catfish buffet. People are animals. Especially the ones that get far more food off the buffet than they can eat. Then they take the left overs and pile them on a plate or tray, cover in ketchup and tartar sauce, then pour their iced tea over the top of all that. A lot of people did that got at least two plates like that a night. 6.8k ...

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Text - allhailkircules • 339d 3 1 Award I was once at an Old Country Buffet, waiting patiently to get some Mac & Cheese. The kid in front of me plied his plate high, and then started tapping the serving spoon to get all of the chessy goodness free from the confines of the spoon. Once he was satisfied with his handiwork, he licked the spoon clean. I didn't have any Mac & Cheese, and haven't been back since 14.3k ...

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Text - pm_me_nothing_• 339d Worked in a buffet restaurant for a few weeks a while back. It was fairly common to see people do disgusting things like sneeze in the food or just poke their fingers in things like sauces to taste them. Even saw one guy literally drop a slice of pizza on the floor and after awkwardly looking around, he put it right back. Brought it up a couple of times, but the restaurant wasn't doing well, and we were told that we couldn't accept the losses to start throwing "good"

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Text - TACObracommander • 339d Not an employee, but I was standing behind a woman at Hometown Buffet. She was getting some lasagna or something, basically a really cheesy pasta that when you lift the serving utensil, a lot of cheese hangs on. I witnessed her lift her pasta, twirl all the excess cheese that was connected around her index finger (and there was a lot), clip it off with her thumb nail, and then fling it back into the pasta. I knew I shouldn't have been at Hometown Buffet in the firs

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Text - Vismungcg • 339d 3 2 Awards Buffet where I live got shut down for serving coyote meat and labeling it as other meats 9.1k ...

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Text - NightMgr • 339d 1 Award There was a fairly expensive restaurant in Dallas in the 80s called Southern Kitchen. About $25 per person back then with food served to the table. Really good stuff. They were famous for cinnamon rolls. The owner said he'd seen many, many women ruin expensive purses hiding those rolls. Man I miss that place. 16.8k ...

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Text - natlach • 339d At one point myself and 2 other family members worked at a Golden Corral (each in different sections) because small towns don't have a lot of job options for high school/college kids. I worked in the bakery which was surprisingly low in horror stories other than the chaos the remained after a large group of children came through. My brother worked the steak station. He got these regulars that would tip him pretty well if he would prepare blue steaks for them. The very idea

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Text - UmbralApocrypha • 339d Not a worker, sorry, but the Golden corral in the city where I went to college got shut down thanks to an employee. He found it odd that they made a busboy sign a non- disclosure form to work there, he found out it was because they were breaking just about every health and safety rule. They were serving meat that would leave food out overnight, the freezer once broke down for three days and they kept serving from it despite it being in the danger zone. He wore a hid

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Text - RoxyFurious • 339d watched a man at the ponderosa walk up to the buffet without a plate, untuck his t-shirt, pull the hem up to form a basket, reach into the steam tray of chicken wings with his bare hand and just load up on hot wings in his makeshift shirtbucket. The woman in the kitchen was like "please sir, could you use a plate. Or just tongs?" Guy scoffed and looked at her like she'd asked him to don a tuxedo. 263 ...

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Text - Odogogod • 339d Picked up some fish and chips recently. Saw they had "all you can eat" on Wednesdays. So I asked "What is the most that someone...." "18 pieces of fish and 3 plates (she held up this huge platter) of fries..every....single...Wednesday." "So he eats that exact order every week?" "Yes, and he goes to a different 'all you can eat' every day of the week. He got banned from the Chinese place down the road." 35.8k ...

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