I highly doubt wendy's has any raw meat in the resturaunt. Im sure that it's already cooked and frozen and they just reheat it. And I remember hearing somewhere that cole slaw is the most reused item in resturants. Haven't eaten it since.

 

well, i think cole slaw is gross to begin with. it's basically chopped up lettuce and other assorted veggies drenched in mayo...

 

Ahem. I used to work at a Wendy's and the meat they used for the chili is actually burgers that sat on the grill too long and are way overcooked. We would then put it in a pan in the cooler under the sandwich condiment station and it was labeled "chili meat". Then the following morning, you would fill the pan with water, put on grill in back of restaraunt, and bring it to a boil. After that, you would take two spatulas and chop the meat to a size good enough for chili and then add it to the other ingredients that go into chili.

And BTW, they do sore raw meat in the coolers. The hamburgers are packaged in a 10# stack. That's 40 burgers per stack and 160 per case.

 

[QUOTE=rajun asian,Oct 30 2004, 01:54 PM] Ahem. I used to work at a Wendy's and the meat they used for the chili is actually burgers that sat on the grill too long and are way overcooked. We would then put it in a pan in the cooler under the sandwich condiment station and it was labeled "chili meat". Then the following morning, you would fill the pan with water, put on grill in back of restaraunt, and bring it to a boil. After that, you would take two spatulas and chop the meat to a size good enough for chili and then add it to the other ingredients that go into chili.

 

I can't believe he admitted that to you!
What if you worked for the health department?!

 

I was in the restaurant business, and yes they re-use food, especially bread. Becareful next time they give you free bread. And this was more higher up $$$ type of restuarant. Bread is the most reused restaurant food.

I used to work for the health department (internship), they don't usually know about it. Well, they do, but they can't catch them in the act. And, it's hard to prove it.

 

Thats why I enjoy cooking home more so than going out to eat.

 

It is true that fried rice in Chinese restaurant is leftover rice.

But leftover means the rice they couldn't finish scooping to customers and rice they cook and use for the next day.

Why? Because when you want to fry rice, it has to be dry. When the rice is fresh, its usually moist and harder to fry.

So there is usually nothing wrong with fried rice beside the fact that the rice was cooked a day earlier.

And most restaurants use fresh meat for fried rice.

 

After reading this, I'm tempted to never eat out again! Well, until I'm too lazy to cook....which seems to happen every 2 or 3 days.

 

I worked in a Chinese restaurant two summers ago as a food server. It was a clean restaurant that didn't even reuse the food customers refused. Instead, the managers would take it home or eat it for lunch/dinner. Everything was prepared and cooked on the same day.

I boxed leftovers before and I would honestly give them everything they had left. Our restaurant policy was honesty and customer service. Utensils that dropped on the floor were immediately placed in the dirty baskets.

The restaurant was not a high class/fancy one either, I would rate 3/5 stars according to price/class.

It just really depends on each one if you want to generalize.