“10 Alarming Red Flags That Reveal You’re Dining in a Restaurant Disaster!”
Tons of menu items. Greasy/dirty menu. Not busy. If you see kitchen clutter in the dining area. Bad Smells. Poor lighting.
Health Inspector weighing in.
If the front is sorta dirty, decor items kinda broke, bathrooms kinda need a good cleaning, and the corners and under the tables have napkins or crumbs, you can be damn sure the kitchen is dirty. What really goes on in a dining room? A kitchen is busy, stuff gets dropped, and when things get busy they cut corners. If they’ve started cutting corners where customers can see, then I’d bet money they are cutting corners in the kitchen.
If you can feel heat, steam, or sometimes even just kinda greasy cooking smells coming from the kitchen then their ventilation system isn’t working or is inadequate. It should always be pulling air from the dining room and pushing it out the roof or the back of the restaurant. And if the ventilation isn’t working and they cook grease bearing foods, then that grease is collecting on the vent hood, the walls, and the fire suppression system in the hood. That grease collects on surfaces, accumulates dust from the air, and then drips back into your food. And I’ve seen that grease, and it’s absolutely disgusting black sludge.
And probably the last reliable way tell you’re in a bad restaurant from a customer’s viewpoint would be the wait staff. I’ve noticed there are two kinds of flustered when a restaurant get’s busy. There’s the in-control-but-busy kind of flustered where they are rushed but still courteous and attentive to their customers, and then the cooks-are-messing-up-and-now-everyone-is-pissed-and-things-are-spiraling-out-of-control kind of flustered. If a staff is in control, then they aren’t making mistakes and they aren’t potentially contaminating the food. A restaurant gets busy every single day, they should be able to handle when they get a wrench or two in their system, and if they can’t, they will start to make mistakes.
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