Do servers have to clean bathrooms?

Some servers also performed duties like putting water in soup warmers, brewing iced tea, and occasionally dusting or polishing brass. Servers did not perform maintenance or janitorial work, such as cleaning bathrooms, washing dishes, mopping or vacuuming floors, washing windows, or taking out garbage.

Are all restaurant kitchens dirty?

It may come as no surprise to a germaphobe that restaurant kitchens are bacteria paradise. They found that menus carried the most germs, with an average count of 185,000 bacteria—nearly 16 times that of the second most germ-infested item, pepper shakers.

What you won’t find in restaurants anymore?

Here are the 6 things you won’t find in restaurants anymore. Plastic gloves give cooks—and therefore, customers—a false sense of security. “Plastic gloves are more dangerous than bare hands,” says Howard Cannon, CEO of Restaurant Expert Witness and author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting a Restaurant.

Are there any secrets that restaurants don’t want customers to know?

Well, essentially, there are secrets being kept that these establishments don’t necessarily want customers to know about. And after reading these restaurant secrets, you will agree that keeping these quiet may be in your best interest.

Why do I get sick after eating at a restaurant?

Why That Restaurant Meal Made You Sick. Another culprit for rapid-onset symptoms – within one to seven hours after a meal – is Staphylococcus auerus. S. auerus moves through you like a tornado – it’s an intensely miserable but brief episode of nausea, vomiting, cramps and/or diarrhea that may last only a few hours or, at most, a day.

Do waiters wipe down menus between customers?

Our waiters don’t wipe down the menus between customers… …or salt and pepper, or bottles of ketchup and mustard. It may come as no surprise to a germaphobe that restaurant kitchens are bacteria paradise. But bugs dwell on tabletop items too.