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Funny you should say that. I worked one year in college part time for a restaurant supply house. It didn’t take long to realize there is no connection whatsoever with how things look in the dining room and how things look, and work, in the kitchen. I remember my boss one day talking kind of excitedly about how some of these fast food places were great for the restaurant business because he said so much of the cooking equipment was visible to the customers.
Like I said, didn’t read the entire thread, just picked it up at page 5. Everyone else is still offering restaurant suggestions, figured I’d jump in. Sorry.Umm... Op was looking for suggestions 14 years ago, and hasn't been around for 4 years.
I do hope he found some food...
Yeah, faux pas in any case. I assumed everyone else was still addressing the OP as well.Lol... no need to apologize, just thought it was funny because you addressed it to OP.
Suggestion is still valuable.
What the customers can't see is the floor, specifically all the employees sliding around on the grease, particularly in fast food joints. Real restaurants know the grease is a problem and put down those thick rubber non slip mats.
Unfortunately, like the absolute truth that is the Hot/Crazy Matrix, it's an inverse proportion. The cleaner the kitchen (think school cafeterias, military chow halls, etc...) the worse the quality of the food.
Small venue. Excellent food for sure.
Yeah, it’s amazing. I remember riding along for an installation of a new Vulcan gas range to a place in Yorktown, Va. I asked the guy driving if it was a new restaurant and why only a range. He shrugged, didn’t know why. We got there and it turns out the health department had actually condemned their existing range and required it to be replaced.What the customers can't see is the floor, specifically all the employees sliding around on the grease, particularly in fast food joints. Real restaurants know the grease is a problem and put down those thick rubber non slip mats.
My favorite Chinese food restaurant outside of Philadelphia is an absolute hole in the wall across from Ft Meade but she churns out food that blows away everyone in the area.
Believe it or not, I've seen worse, the IHOP in Timonium comes to mind. When that was renovated we discovered that apparently there was a gap behind one of the griddles that was allowing grease to get into the counter the griddle was sitting on. That small mountain of grease was literally 24" in diameter and sloped upwards towards the counter top which would put it at around 30" tall.
I'm sure the food is incredible and I'm also sure I know exactly what their kitchen looks like. Chinese restaurants, good or bad, are all completely disgusting. There is no ratio of clean to the quality of the food they pump out.
Every kitchen I worked in had those. We would have to clean them and mop the floors at the end of the day. That's not weird. I'd rather have those mats than slip while holding pot of boiling soup.What the customers can't see is the floor, specifically all the employees sliding around on the grease, particularly in fast food joints. Real restaurants know the grease is a problem and put down those thick rubber non slip mats.
