Let me preface a little: i have been in the food industry for 10+ years and was ServeSafe certified for at least 6 of those years. I had the cleanest restaurant in the region and at one point the cleanest restaurant in the company. I take pride in making sure the food I serve to you is safe and won’t make you I’ll.
Ok, onto the story.
I work for a bakery in a well known grocery store. I am absolutely disgusted by the condition of this little bakery-it should be condemned by the health department until it’s fully cleaned and restocked with new equipment.
The proofing oven(what we use to allow the dough for our breads to rise) has black mold on the weather strips in each door.
The baking sheets are black and crusted-oh and don’t get washed before next use, they just take the pan liner that was already in that pan and flip it over to use again. Cross contamination much?!
All of their pans are on a rolling cart-probably measures about 5 ft high..and guess what-THEY’RE ALL DIRTY! It took me one day to get all of those pans cleaned and sanitized, but I’m literally the only one washing the pans.
The wire racks we use to put the donuts directly on to glaze have rust all over them.
I’m the only one that washes my hands, and usually the only one to use gloves when handling the food.
I’ve spoken with my manager and she basically told me that it’s not possible to wash all the pans we use in a day…umm WHAT?! I’m pretty sure I just cleaned every single pan, and we only use about 20 of them in a day. It’s just pure laziness.
I’m going absolutely crazy right now trying to deal with the mess and deal with the fact that no one actually cares about what they’re doing or serving.
I don’t know how to bring it up to the store manager without making my manager seem bad(she really is the sweetest person).
I don’t want to quit, but it’s definitely been heavy on my mind lately..