20+ restaurant secrets from overworked and underpaid servers: 'You should not drink fountain drinks'

Working in any industry for an extended period of time means that you learn some tricks of the trade. It also means that you learn the secrets no one wants anyone outside of the industry to know.

This, of course, applies to all fields of work, but there is perhaps no industry where the secrets have the potential to raise more eyebrows than the restaurant industry. Once you learn how messy and unsanitary certain establishments can be, it can definitely shift your perspective on eating out. On the other hand, you might just embrace an "ignorance is bliss" mentality and continue to frequent the same questionable places over and over again.

Keep scrolling below for this collection of industry secrets from servers and kitchen workers!

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Here is a friendly reminder to always be kind when ordering regularly over the phone… otherwise, people most certainly will leave a note about disgruntled, Karen customers and you won't be able to come back regularly.
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This ex-server clearly has a bit of a toxic relationship with their former profession,
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This next hot take seems to contradict what other servers and former servers had to say about health inspections. Some folks claim that the standards are strict and that your average kitchen would not pass a baseline health inspection, while other people seem to think health inspectors are easily swayed and don't really care at all.
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It definitely defeats the purpose of going out to dinner when you find out that half of what you ordered was frozen food that was thrown into the microwave. We can all do that from home, people!
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This isn't exactly the most sanitary thing in the world, but it's also an upsetting reminder of how little our dishwashers and kitchen workers are compensated.
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We'll all have to keep this in mind next time we order a soda at the movie theater!
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