When the Health Department Shows Up
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I want to eat at a restaurant entirely staffed by this guy in 20 different wigs.
This is way funnier than it should be. 😭
Its like that in every kitchen 😭😂 it's unbelievable how he's able to make it so relatable
Don't we fucking all 🤣
Considering how relatable these skits are...you kind of do.
yusssss
Pickles is lowkey the smart one. If it's too perfect, the inspector will start digging for stuff to find. This way, you get a small demerit out of the way and he feels satisfied in his job. So while everyone was grumbling at Pickles for eating in the kitchen, he was saving the team.
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Well hopefully the team won't need any saving... The health inspector isn't a bad guy he's the one trying to prevent you from eating at places you see on kitchen nightmares
@@gravity3268 r/whoosh
@@gravity3268 so tell us you are a health inspector without telling us you are a health inspector
We had a perfect score on an evaluation and they ended.up checking our soap?! That was the day I found out soap can expire (been working in the industry for 10 years)
One of my family friends was a health inspector and she said she could always tell when she was being stalled but didn’t really care, because if your restaurants health code violations can be fixed in five minutes then you’re running a pretty solid business
Agreed!
That sounds pretty reasonable. Easy to fix 'hey yeah take the trash out' or 'break out a new glove box', not so much possible to hide the rats and get rid of the eight pounds of rotten tomatoes.
As a health inspector can confirm this comment. My job is to ensure the public’s health, not stress out over minor details. No one wants to get sick after eating out at a food business
@@reneeh8719as a restaurant owner, I appreciate your hard work. We've got great inspectors in my county
I mean writing new dates on the food though?
You forgot the server willing to take a hit for the team who selflessly, ruthlessly and AGGRESSIVELY flirts with the inspector for a few extra minutes
Jeff fell on the sword once, over and over for 10 mins. A+
I feel seen. Sometimes back of house likes to downplay what the front does to raise their tips and protect them from assholes (it's usually based in masc sexism, I've never copped this attitude off women in the kitchen - they know perfectly well how some well placed flirtation can raise everyone's tips or give you a five minute head start) it is a genuine pleasure to come across someone who gets that we're a team.
Yeah, and the one who knows about the house inspectors favourite topics: in our case, it’s the supporting the local football club.
Start to talk about last weekends results, and you get five minutes off
@@angelalovell5669 Yeah I never complain about FOH making tips. I do not have the patience to deal with customers. I consider it the "hazardous work" pay of dealing with Karens 😂
My Gm and i would hound our inspector. Between me "finding" issues that weren't issues and her flirting, he wanted out QUICKLY
I literally saved the butts of the last kitchen I worked in. Went on a break and ran right into the health inspector at the store next to us. I knew we were next, spun my pregnant butt around and flew into the kitchen with the news. Actual panic ensued.
you m'lady are a true hero
o7
That's why she's the MVP! That's why she's the goat! THE GOAT!
Your butt was pregnant? Quite odd
Lol. I used to be a hairstylist and we got a heads up when the inspector was in town from friends working at different salons .
Dishwasher will be out back eating and listening to rap music only he likes, on a portable speaker
As a former busboy this is scarily accurate
so we all just be living the same lives
when I was washing dishes the health inspector snuck behind my back and ran a ph strip down the rag hanging from my back pocket....losers
Drinking copious amounts of his choice energy drink too, while thinking about getting insanely stoned after work
How tf you know
Our health inspector was so cool. She’d come in and “check her emails” at a table for 10 or 15 minutes before starting inspection
cause she know it be more paper work for her if she dont give people time to clean up minor stuff
Same except ours went to the bathroom while everybody scrambled😂
Sounds like she was a back of house employee and knows that health codes are literally impossible to keep so she wants to do as little work as possible and go home. One fine dining place I chefed at our owner just paid our health inspector to leave us be. We had quite a lot of questionable items on the menu but that was simply because we would actually reuse our food.
Say we had lobster for Wednesday, by Friday it'd basically be unsellable on that form, but no fuss, we have lobster bisque as a side dish or main by Saturday night service.
It's quite impossible to follow actual food guidelines. If businesses had to love legit by those guidelines you wouldn't have restaurants lmao. So impossible. You'd have to soend so much on labor to constantly keep things cleaned.
@@anthonyzullo the restaurant I go to is always clean the only rule they break is not wearing hair nets, hell they even have color coded knifes and cutting boards 💀
our inspector at our coffee shop called us 2 weeks ahead of time no joke.
My first experience with the health department at work was so memorable. I hated that place so much and I knew it was in fact not up to code. My manager was off doing something and my older coworkers were working so I happily took the man wherever he wanted to go. The city owned and managed the building so I figured they needed to learn a lesson.... plus it was pay back towards my boss. She wasn't happy, but boy was the rest of that summer a quick one
Idk bringing down other peoples livelihood, thumbs down for me
@Madeleine Price considering the place was in violation of many codes and the management was well aware and didn't fix it, I think it was called for. This job was at a pool so cleanliness is rather important. Bathrooms and locker rooms were just rinsed down with water because we didn't have cleaning products to sanitize anything, the pool deck was rarely cleaned, the filtration systems we discusting and were so old they actually ended up exploding a week before we were supposed to close, and the floor of one of the locker rooms was caving in. They knew all of this and didn't make any effort to fix it.
@@lyndsay._.xwow that’s not only gross but really dangerous
@lil saphy💚💙 very. Between the condition of the building and the work conditions, that job was a red flag and a half.
I've talked about the condition of the building and the god awful management, but the actual work was terrible. I was the only cashier on the sketchy side of town (dozens of burglaries, crime, and hundreds of homeless people and low income families) and the chances of me getting robbed were so high wasn't given a cash register, I had a box with no lid. My counter wasn't cut off from the public so anyone could walk back there at any time and do or take what they wanted. I had to open and close everyday and the room in which I did that had an open window which was next to the only counter. Again, anyone could walk up and take the money or hurt me at any time. I in fact actually had people grab at the money before and had it not been for a co-worker walking by I would have been robbed and possibly injured. My manager was so bad at his job, I had to start the incident reports whenever something happened and I was the one to prepare anything the guards would need; med kits, back board, and always had 911 ready. On top of that, which was not in my job description, I also played manager and had to watch the deck when there wasn't people at the counter. Even after I clocked out, it wasn't over. The walk to my car was the worst, it got so bad I ended up having to ask the male life guard to walk me to my car. Every other day someone would be around the employee lot and would wait for us. I went out there one day and a man cracked out on God knows what was standing on my co workers car holding a spoon and threatening to stab me if I didn't give him my number. A few weeks later the same man came in trying to get me to trade rings he'd stolen so he could come in and take a shower for free. I told him no, he got mad, threw the rings at me, bought a coke and left. Not even three hours after that I had to call the police because a different man was watching the children swin while wearing a dress made of toilet paper. Upon asking him to leave he told my co worker he wanted to sa me then he'd leave. Of course my co worker being the amazing guy he is, didn't leave my side the rest of that day despite the man being arrested and charged. There's hundreds of other events and stories to tell, which is sad I have so much to say about a three month long summer job. I should have never taken the job in the first place, especially since it was my first and I was only 17 at the time and very clueless about the bad people in the world.
Never fear though, the pool had to close because of the filter system blowing up and the locker room floor nearly caving in and because it is a low income neighborhood I doubt my city will pay to replace it anytime soon.
@@lyndsay._.x that is wild and really bad I can’t believe the place wasn’t closed sooner glad your okay and stayed safe while you were there.
This brings back so many memories. Not like we had anything to hide but as soon as the health inspector walked in the hostess would let everyone know on the radio and the manager would run out to stall and it was all hands on deck to scramble in the kitchen 🤣
Omg I rember us Haveing to book it to hide the sheer amount of food and drinks we wear eating
I think every employee has 2. Drinks minimum.
That's why the heads up from decent inspectors makes sense - they KNOW running a real ass kitchen gets messier than OHS would ideally prefer, and that it is virtually unavoidable. It's more about discernment - if you can tidy things up quick enough for a ten minute walk through that doesn't kick up any ACTUAL red flags, you're good.
I worked at a school on a country estate and their biggest switch ups were just hiding any wooden spoons (not used often, more for small things, but we all know it's not officially coded) and putting chefs jackets on. Everything else was run pretty close to code, so didn't need much adjusting. That's what I imagine decent inspectors look for. Anyone who's worked in a kitchen that was trying to feed 30 people at once has some intelligent sympathy for the odd water glass.
@@JesusChrist-sm4bm I always have a glass of water and a mug of coffee. I have a coworker who brings a backpack, about 10 lbs of crochet stuff, and a laptop, a chef who watches cartoons at the grill, our manager leaves her drinks at the prep station, employee red bulls on tables
@@scarletpajama1021 it's just those little rules but its always why the kitchen was my favorite place to be
Retail I couldn't even have a Starbucks tumbler without them checking if I had something other than water in it. But like common your makeing me work from 10pm and wake up at 8am to get there by 9am and NOT let me have coffee
@@JesusChrist-sm4bmI work retail and my thermos always has some warm tea in it in the mornings, I've never gotten any trouble for it. All my coworkers are drinking lattes and energy drinks anyway lol.
I used to work in a supermarket where all the "back" work (bakery, deli, fresh cut, etc.) all lived in constant fear of the health department dropping in. My coworkers and I all hated each other to a terrifying degree, but when the health department showed up? WE BECAME BESTIES. We ran around like ants and got that place spotless in maybe 10 minutes tops. It was INSANE.
I NEVER understood working in a kitchen like this..if it only took 10 minutes of extremely quick work, why not take 30 minutes to have everything always up to code daily?
you never live in fear and there is no scrambling around with your heart rate at 185 BPM when the inspector inevitably shows up.
In my kitchen all that needs to happen is sometimes a couple things need to be labeled or a drink was placed in the wrong place. we never live in fear and we dont have to stall the inspector, he just walks in
I work in a deli(about to quit that horrid job) and we're like the total opposite. We all mostly like each other and get along(with a couple exceptions) and we clean everything constantly throughout the day. The employees there are great, the customers, it's a struggle not to entertain your darkest thoughts most days.
@@KumoGoesFastokay so I’m the chef at a small hown town restaurant the locals love our food no doubt and we get many travelers being close to an interstate and near by a high school that does well Athletically. My main issue is getting people to date anything. Back in September we had a surprise inspection. I wasn’t expecting it until November, but a disgruntled ex employee called in a fake report. Health Inspector showed up while I was on vacation with a liquor a food truck delivery sitting in the Liquor closet and the walk in. A few items weren’t dated and the Silverware wasn’t stored properly. Bartender says they were rolling silverware when the Inspector walked in and just set them behind the bar. We got a 90. I was upset because I know we can do a 100 every day of the week, but simple mistakes and bad timing will get you. I don’t think we should have been docked points for the food and liquor deliveries but the Food Code says otherwise.
@KumoPlaysWoW you can work in a *mostly* perfect kitchen but the health department will still scare you to death. The restaurant I used to work at actually had a good relationship with the health department around here, but the small things like gloves on (I don't even touch the food directly) or rags in buckets always felt inefficient and not much more sanitary
Ah I felt that depending on the time I was grocery store kitchen and cafe. You could tell a heath inspection was coming by how anal people where about dates.
We just got inspected by our "pre health department" company so this is especially relevant rn 😂
Funny story actually, one time everyone started whispering that the company had swept in, so we started the mad dash for labels and temp logs. Ten minutes later we hear "oohhhh EcoLAB is here, not EcoSure"
Y'all when I tell you the entire kitchen breathed a sigh of relief strong enough to generate an F4 twister
Yeah, we actually do an in store random check done by assistants.
My place does the same. We never get anything more than an 85%
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The kitchen equivalent to when OSHA shows up on the job site🤣🤣
and unfortunately we still have to deal with OSHA, ecosure and ecolabs. This is distrubingly accurate
suddenly everybody's taking lunch at 9:30 in the morning 😂
Everyone gangster until the health department shows up
No one cares. The manager/owner slips them a couple of hundreds and you’re good. Health Inspectors are not regulated and susceptible to bribery.
@@coyoterx6002 idk how you’re getting these types of inspectors but the HD is a bitch to deal with every time they come
@@coyoterx6002 yeah you’re just talking about something that you have never seen happen or even heard of 💀 that’s not how the health department works or many people would be very sick due to businesses not following health codes.
@@stuffhappened9271 they really aren’t. Depends on the nature of your infraction. Put between $500-$2000 on the table and they’ll take it. Same goes with the Fire Marshall. It doesn’t work if you’re naive to giving the bribe or being cheap and not paying enough. Health Inspectors are just security theatre. To the public it looks like someone is looking out for you.
@@notcylus6783 I’ve been a manager at bars and restaurants while going to school. Filthy establishments. The owners had safety envelopes specifically for the health inspector because it’s cheaper to pay them off then to get a fine or pay for a lawyer. As long as your fridge works, have a bottle of soap by the bartenders sink. You’re good and they’ll take the money. Most health inspectors don’t care. It’s just a job. Same goes for Fire Marshalls, all for show but when push comes to shove they take the cash.
I felt this one with a passion, the "want some candy" guy needs to be sent on lunch the moment they pop up.
I remember when I first started in a restaurant. Dish pit. Health dept came in on my 4th day. Manager told me to completely stop dishes and just go stand in a corner so I wouldn't fuck anything up 😅
@@robertrosales2285 awww
@@robertrosales2285 Smart boss. I would have done the same. Just stand in a corner and watch how everyone else handles it. 😂
For real. I was thinking they should have sent Pickles on an errand.
@@emogeneblack9712 it worked. Now I'm a kitchen manager. And I do the same shit. 🤣
This is so true!!😂 We would have a code that would print out on a ticket to let the kitchen know when they were there.
Bro everytime the health inspector came it was when I’d forgotten to shave for a month and I was always on the report lol
Of course it had to be Pickles who inadvertently ruins it 😂
That was actually Nico!
@@suzbone Nah Nico has long hair and a red rag on if I remember correctly
Whoops, my bad!
whats wrong with giving candies??
@@FERLARA If someone has a nut/chocolate/etc allergy and it drops in the food, Bad news bears. 😅
Health department inspections were a pain, especially when they follow you. I remember losing points for not washing hands before I put bread in a toaster. And more points for not washing hands after taking bread out of toaster. According to them it should went wash, grab bread, toast, wash, remove toast, wash, butter toast, wash, place on plate, wash, serve. Here's your 20 minute piece of toast sir. Migh taste a slight soapyness. ENJOY
Ha! I got dinged for not doing the "medical wash" before picking up a lemon. They didn't even check to freezer.
I got dinged because my cutting board was scored....I am a bartender, my cutting board is 6 inches and only used to cut limes....she told me i had to plane it....i threw it out. It was literally a dollar at the dollar store.
Put your plastic gloves on! Sighs heavily and roles eyes! Change them when you change stations!😛
@@killahtomato89 Jfc. I get being specific about germs (though not to the point of washing your hands every 2 seconds) and expiration dates, but _used cutting boards?_ Do they expect you to get a fresh one after every cut?
I think his point was you're supposed to wear gloves for ready to eat food
This is so incredibly accurate 🤣 although where I worked the restaurants along the strip would all call around to let the others know when they had got inspected lmao.
As a former food inspector, I've never seen anything more accurate in my life. 😂
The pile of shirts on his floor after he was done filming this bit. 😩
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What is this A crossover episode
@@doctorofskillz2932 nope
@@papapaniop Its a reference, cause its 2 semi big creators that arent linked
Ninja... Go!
As a Public Health Inspector...this is so true.
What about the part where you get bribed and give bad restaurants a passing grade?
After what I've seen on Kitchen Nightmares.... can you do your job a little bit better? Or at all?
No offense.... but we all hate you. 😂
Bruh y’all fucking jumped on him immediately! Leave the poor guy alone! Y’all don’t know who he is.
@@heyitsjustme.680 it depends on the country. Over in the uk we can’t brib the health inspection
Almost 20 years in the industry.
This is Spot! ON!
Everyone knows their role.
Stall tactics and all.
Every kitchen has a "Pickels"
I ran many Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly and the stress level is always high eventhough I do my daily walk-thrus because you never know if someone dropped the ball before you caught it and as the Executive Director, you're responsible for everyone and everything. 😊
Yep I was in the food service for 12 years and yep that's it all in a nutshell. I've always wondered if they see us scrambling around like freaking chicken's with their head cut🤔🤔🤔
Yes, yes we do.
We do
“HIDE THE RAGS” so accurate
Stuffing the stank rag in his coat 😅
Literally had a food safety inspection TODAY. This is so accurate lol
As a former employee of a super sofititicated restaurant, I can confirm we did this all the time an inspector came around.
The health inspector came to my old high school job one day and my boss leaned in and told me to pretend we straight up didn’t have a basement lmaooo
this is my favorite comment😂
What was in the basement???
i hope you guys hid the entrance to it like narnia😂
Just realized he’s not reusing one apron, they all have different names. Genius.
Yeah and on this one Pickles borrowed Nico’s but he does have one lol
@@DrewTalbert love the layer of depth it adds. Keep it up!
I ran such a tight ship when I was a manager that we were always inspection ready. We alway got perfect scores every time and never needed warning. Just do the job right all the time ffs. People are paying a premium over home prices and they deserve a consistent standard of excellence for keeping the team fed too. Even if you shovel poop for a living, take pride in doing the job well. Your work is a reflection of your character. Be of good character.
Our manager used to throw as many people out of the kitchen as humanely possible so no one could pull a Pickles in front of the HD, send AGM around to apologize to tables as we were about to have a "small kitchen hiccup" that would delay service and tell the servers to stay the hell in the dining room refreshing drinks lolz
As soon as I saw the plastic container being used as a cup, I looked away and shook my head. That is literally what all of us in restaurants drink out of, all the time lol
Ikr 😂 it is very convenient and won’t break if it ever falls
Always give s sniff test, nothing worse than drinking from a quart container that had onions or garlic in it
@@TonyisKing343
I hear your onions and garlic, and present a new champion: hot peppers.
lol
@@numcookie1344 This literally just happened to me today, except I was eating cereal out of it. I thought it tasted kind of funny but ate it anyways. When I finished and drank the milk, I realized it tasted funny because it had pickled jalapeños in it previously. Never forget to smell your containers haha
It's a deli 😁 aka BOH drink cups
This is us right now. We’re due for an inspection any day now, and it’s so awful. There’s so many little minute things to consider that the inspector is always bound to find something.
Always have something for them to find. If they find something they feel like they did their Job. If you kitchen is too "perfect" on the Outside they will get suspicious and start to dig deeper (and then they WILL find stuff... ).
Always stressful but just get your team on the same page with being diligent and proper and all will go smoothly
This is so funny! My restaurant was run by a former health inspector, so we never stressed out at inspection time. This skit is exactly what I imagined “normal” restaurants to be like
Been there, done that and I'm glad that the one inspector was a good friend of the owner.
Only Drew and Andrea would get the detail of drinking out of the deli cup 😂😂😂
No doubt. They're always on your ass a out using the restaurant cups.
My favorite moments managing kitchens is when the delivery drivers leave meat and produce cases on the ground in the middle of the lunch rush and then the health inspector drops by.
Quite literally happened to us last week. Truck was supposed to come before we even open, but they’re short drivers so it was during lunch. On top of that, they’re having distribution issues so half the stuff on the floor we can’t even use & have to send back bc they sent replacements last minute without approval
This!!! 💯
Also why do they insist on leaving everything directly in front of the door in the walk in. You can’t just walk in one more step and drop it to the side of the door so our FOH staff can still walk in to the cooler until BOH gets to putting the orders up?
Every day 🤬
YES!!!
There's a bench for that ffs. They meant well not disturbing us but we're the ones who get under fire if the one with the badge see it
My brother would have the fire department show up the day someone just dropped off twenty pallets of new material that were stacked up to the ceiling. He told them just come back tomorrow and this will all be put away. It worked.
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lmao drinking out of the quart containers
the frantic fighting with the hair nets is so real 😭
And the inspectors never show up when everything is running smoothly. It's always when everything has gone straight to hell. Kudos from a former kitchen manager, Drew - this is spot on!
This is Soo true. Rn we are supposed to have inspection but they haven't came yet. We're freaking out cause we know they'll show up when everything is going to shit.
as someone that has been working at restaurants for at least 4 years, this is the most realistic portrayal ever
That nervous host energy was on point.
Put that rag away! Check your temps! Label everything! 😂 Made me have flashbacks!
We usually weren't as worried about the health department as we were the quality control unit from olive garden. But either way, the moment someone looking suspiciously official was spotted walking up we were muttering into the headset and if there was enough coverage at the front, spreading the word around 😂
This makes me feel oddly secure in my choice to eat at Olive Garden waaaaay too often 😅
Same for the restaurant chain I work for. Health department is a breeze by comparison
Yep Total Quality is a pain!!! You see a blue shirt walk through the front door and you get ptsd as a manager. But they do hold us to a higher standard than most businesses.
They need to be sent weekly. I know several people working in the food industry rn and they’re stressed as hell. They mention forced work, understaffing, gas lighting. Honestly, if the food industry as it works today is not working it should NOT exist. We need to start phasing out the industry for a better option and hold these corporations accountable. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Most people on the block will call as soon as a health inspector comes haha “H.I. Is on fourth coming your way. Be ready, we weren’t.” Hahahahhahah I love my industry we all take care of each other no matter if we’re competition🤣
Poor Pickles doesn't even get his own jacket, he's got Nico's 😂
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He does have his own in other videos
Such an excellent skit. I love how Terry just slides in front of the inspector.
Our health department inspector ate at our deli. We were always on top of things.
Pickles is so pure 😭❤️ give me that candy
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@@user-qi8rh3pz5j This is shit what you send it's it true
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-He's already running out of debts, you have to pay back, which did not
My aunt is a company health inspector and I was once studying at the same city where she does her inspections. She brought me 2 cases of water, 3 cakes, 6 small milk cartons and 12 yoghurt cups during the 2 weeks she was there. She gets free stuff all the time and because she still needed to fly home with just her backpack she had to get rid of all the excess food. This happened a week before the first Covid lockdown happened and what she brought really helped us.
It's always a pain when health inspector come. Especially when it's the middle of a rush and you're afraid you're not cutting the veggies right or if the gloves are changed frequently enough. Or if the fridge drawers at the line are cold enough even though they're being opened nearly every time a ticket comes in
The stalling done by the manager while the kitchen freaks the heck out is so real 😂😂😂
Someone get this guy a Netflix show
I love how the number of characters have expanded and I’m invested in each one
Same energy as when DSS would come to the preschool I used to work at 😂 know your numbers, know your numbers!!!!
Having worked in the same restaurant for almost two years now, i can confirm this is the most accurate representation of this i have ever seen
I remember in culinary school that my teacher constantly told us- “Treat health inspector visits like a visit from the cops- if they don’t have papers, they don’t get in.”
Edit: I've caused a war but I got a haha from the man himself, and that makes everything worth it. Let me clarify one thing here though, he did say more than a few times that if a health inspector shows up unannounced and it's during your busiest hour or a dinner rush or something such as that, then that is a good enough excuse to tell them to simply come back tomorrow at a much less busy time. Restaurants get dirtier in the kitchens the more tickets come in, and there's a difference between "always dirty" and "working dirty". "Working dirty" might constitute such things as rags left over counters, out of code food being left in the dish pit without being dumped immediately, utensils not being cleaned right on the mark, etc.. all relatively minor things to a health inspector, and its their job to pick up on that kind of situation.
At the end of the day, health inspectors keep us and the places we eat safe from foodborne illnesses and other hazards, and they only shut down the most deserving of places. There are minor and critical violations they can mark down, and those minor violations usually just constitute a quick repeat visit the day after or the next week, as they can be resolved within a quick timeframe. Critical violations include storage areas not being kept at correct temperatures, seriously out of code food being served, infestations of insects/pests, unclean appliances such as "always dirty" ovens, counters, utensils, etc..
Food is a magical thing but it is also very dangerous when prepared unsafely in commercial environments. It is a thing that brings people together and lets them relax after a long day or catch up with friends, and the atmosphere of most restaurants provides a safe, calm environment in which to enjoy eachother's company. So let's all chill down in the comments, and just think of all the good food we've had at restaurants in our lives and those good memories that they gave us, and how our favorite restaurants stay open due to health inspectors doing their jobs and ensuring the populace consumes and enjoys safely.
Also, anyone reading who hasn't learned how to cook at home yet- give it a shot! Start with the simple stuff, salads, pasta, rice, breakfast- cooking at home often gives me a nice bit of satisfaction in my day, and there's no health inspectors to worry about! (Just your own stomach-)
Hahaha
Your culinary school might not be aware but as a condition of your restaurant license, we can come anytime that we want. You can refuse us. Then we are going to suspend your license, adjudicate the case and if you then don’t comply, we’ll permanently close you down. Your choice.
@@HeatherHotcakes but a light shutdown with unknown causes is much better then a known shutdown because of an illegal situation
@@SurBENTLEY still not good for business
@@Rigoberto365- never is I'd suspect, just not as bad as the other much worst outcome lol
LOL This post is perfectly timed! LOL The Health Department visited my cafe yesterday and did the same thing! Everything was already date dotted but we still panicked and made sure everything was in good condition just in case XD The health department uses the temperature guns on everything in the store now like they're the food police so it was fun LOL
You know they are the food police, right?
@@mlo527 Quite literally
what is date dotting????
@@hateyouwithapassion1 Dating everything for the rotation and make sure it's still good
Wow XD LOL the health the department coming over is so hilarious LOL and they just visited my place too! LOL Very comedic timing. Much funny
This shows up everyonce in a while for me, so good and nostalgic for me. Just cooking and cleaning is such a real response
Mj is about to ruin the next decade for the Hornets because a rookie hurt his feelings💀
100% accurate. We had this trashcan that only ever held frozen paper fry bags from the freezer from when we'd drop fries in the fryer. No way for the health inspector to know this though. I'll never forget after we all were on our best behavior, the new guy pushed down the fry bags in the trashcan with gloves on.....
Wait, I'm confused. Why is that bad?
@@Fantasticanations because he used his clean food glove hands to push down the trash bin. To the health inspector this is like the worst thing you’ve ever seen. But in reality the only thing they used the can for was brand new clean food wrappers
Bruh he gave your manager a heart attack
@@mesacperez9502 Sure did. Health inspection and quality inspectors would always dock points for the most minute stuff which sometimes means the obvious gets forgotten. 😂
@@JohnSmith-jx1ye Yeah, because it's still a TRASH can.
“Heard” gave me ptsd
It's so bitter sweet ain't it🤣
He is so happy sharing his candy. Lol
The amount of work you put into these videos in phenomenal
Had our random inspection the other week...this is aggressively accurate
When the health inspector shows up we basically don’t even serve food.
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Yup- kick all the kitchen staff out and just say it’a a “slow day” while the FOH staff tells customers to come back in an hour lol
Yep! Our manager did rounds to any people dining in the restaurant with some fabrication or other about a delay and apologized ahead of time to keep tempers down. Any fussy folks were promised a free dessert. They'd rather comp shit all day then get a bad score from some Pickles in the kitchen forgetting something vital in the heat of the moment lol I just commented this somewhere at the top a min ago 😂
Worked in a restaurant for some years. Truest shit oml. 😂😂
Yeah I remember we had health inspector drills so we could hide all the shady shit we did in less than 2 minutes
Shady shit like what?
@@squidward9747 can’t speak for what everyone’s role in the drill was but mine was to put lids on the bins throw out all the dirty rags and put the defrosting fish back in the fridge (we would leave it out to make it defrost faster) and wash all the utensils that they really should’ve cleaned before then flip the pots and pans to face downwards
Lmao same. All servers were on constant vigilience for corp or health inspections. As soon as we see one, severes will inform the entire resturant and make ir presentable within a min or two. Everyone had a role.
You’re such a character
He's several actually :p
Having a good time by watching your UA-cam
Pickles so precious 😅
Funniest prank to play on back of the house
Drinking out of the quart cups is so accurate lol
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Yes, this is accurate, I work at a gas station and it was the equivalent of finishing your homework while they were holding it, we passed with flying colors got like a 3(that’s pretty good)
I had this experience last week.
“My fridge stopped working 2 days ago!!””” I felt that lol
PIIICKLES, NOOOO BABY 🤦🏾♀️🤣😂
Spent 10yrs running restaurants and felt this in my core😂🤣
As a former kitchen worker… this is so true.
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I literally have to watch these 20 times to catch it all and still miss things...Pickles is wearing one of Nico’s tops-LOL.
His got dirty in a fryer oil spill and had to borrow
ahh I love how they are passing time to get everything checked haha the kitcehn staff goin oh Shiz love it!!
As a health inspector this video speaks to me.
This was always my unofficial task when I worked in a restaurant. I could see the health inspector walking across the parking lot (she always went to the Subway across the street first), and always uttered "Aw sh*t" and would quickly run to each person and whisper "health department" and the mad dash would commence lol
Just noticed that you have different jackets for each chef with their names!! Such attention to detail
Pickles is wearing Nico's
the 'HEARD' was SO GOOD LOL. drew. you spoil us.
So true. CODE 1 People! You know what to do.
This is perfect! I just received my first 100 score of my career 3 days ago!
Congrats !!
Good job and thank you!
Our code word is *Hurricane*
This man’s videos are giving me ptsd from when I used to be a server
Holy hell.. this is ON POINT Lmaooo
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as a culinary student who just got their restaurant managers lisence this is hilarious!
the offering of skittles was PRICELESS
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Drinking water out of the soup container is so spot on
My gosh, these clips are TEXTBOOK!
Health dept inspection is a cake walk compared to the Corporate food saftey audit.
Ha ha
You are so true…. I jumped ship to TGIF for about 6 months, had to go through 2 of these… WTF 😳
My old restaurant called me up offering more money, I wanted to go back anyway
Server turnover 6 months to a year tops
Cooks always short
17 server sections, after all the call offs down to 13 servers
Horrible training system out of date thinking
District manager calls me up hey going to give you your own store…. 😳 sorry just gave my notice
Facts
1000% true. Once you see Ecosure in the lobby, it's a mad dash.
I knew pickles was going to do that.
I expected the classic "Want some fries?"
I felt that when the fridge stopped working 😭😂
Each video gets better and better! 😂 It’s so funny how every restaurant seems to be the same. 😂
As a former restaurant employee this is all true lol
They normally give a notice so the night before management is extra nice so we can extra extra clean 😂
I thought they usually came in for random inspections
I have never heard of them calling the night before. The whole reason is so that they catch you off guard. Lol
@@GenuineA-HOLE I worked at a coffee shop for 5 years in Canada and my manager/owner always knew when they would come. Not sureeee tbh.
@@heyitsjustme.680 I'm Telling you some ppl have connections. I think other owners tell each other. We always prepared for their arrival. Alwaysssss.
@@virtualnatureone in my country each region has a whatsapp group with all the stores and they share info like that.
The only time the health inspector came into the restaurant I worked at as a kid I was so High and had gotten the other cook high on the way to work. We (The grill and cook area) ended up with the Highest Rating for any station at that locations history... Best part was the Manager busted us out for coming in high but couldn't send us home because he had no one else to work. LOL! I never let him forget about it.
How have I not seen this one!!?!?!? Awesomely relatable