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Would this bother you as a customer?

27 replies

Yearn · 04/11/2021 23:15

If you went in to a deli (that also had a cafe) and all of the jars/bottles etc. for sale had a layer of dust and grease on them, making them look dirty, would you be put off buying anything?

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HollowTalk · 04/11/2021 23:16

Yes, of course it would put me off! I wouldn't buy anything from them. Why?

Hellocatshome · 04/11/2021 23:17

Yes

NuffSaidSam · 04/11/2021 23:17

Yes, I wouldn't buy anything from there.

RockinHorseShit · 04/11/2021 23:17

Yes, it would definitely put me off. It shows lack of caring about cleanliness, so I'd wonder what else they didn't clean properly 🤢

LubaLuca · 04/11/2021 23:18

Yes, of course. Nobody wants to buy food items that have been sitting there long enough to gather dust and grease. Plus it demonstrates a general lack of cleanliness, which would put anyone off in a food shop.

RockinHorseShit · 04/11/2021 23:19

I'd expect that environmental health wouldn't be too happy about it either given that they are serving food

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Yearn · 04/11/2021 23:20

What about if you sat down to eat your lunch and the majority of your view was the dirty dish section where the waiting staff scrape food waste in to an open (no lid) bin which is also next to the shelves where clean plates and cups are stored? Dirty plates are then placed on a shelf below clean plates but above some water glasses stored in a box on the floor?

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LubaLuca · 04/11/2021 23:22

You're asking pointless questions here. You know nobody would be okay with sloppy hygiene.

Hellocatshome · 04/11/2021 23:22

I'm not playing anymore until you tell us why you are asking these questions Confused

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Yearn · 04/11/2021 23:22

@HollowTalk

Yes, of course it would put me off! I wouldn't buy anything from them. Why?
Just wanting opinions because after my experience today I wondered if I was being unreasonable!
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NuffSaidSam · 04/11/2021 23:22

I left after I saw the dirty jars, I'm not buying lunch there.

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Yearn · 04/11/2021 23:25

@LubaLuca

You're asking pointless questions here. You know nobody would be okay with sloppy hygiene.
Not pointless. I don't want to be too outing.

Honestly, I feel like I stepped in to the twilight zone or something when I went in there today. I could spot so many wrong things just within 5 minutes of being there.

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Yearn · 04/11/2021 23:28

@NuffSaidSam

I left after I saw the dirty jars, I'm not buying lunch there.
Yeah, this is what I suspect a lot of potential customers do.

I could list another 30+ disgusting things that were going on but I just needed to check I wasn't bonkers for thinking those two things especially were wrong.

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RockinHorseShit · 05/11/2021 00:24

It gets worse, yikes 🥴

Report them to your local environmental health, they will make people ill

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Yearn · 05/11/2021 00:59

@RockinHorseShit

It gets worse, yikes 🥴

Report them to your local environmental health, they will make people ill

Thing is, they have FHR of 5! I checked beofre I went.
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RockinHorseShit · 05/11/2021 01:22

It may be old & they need re assessing. It happened to an Indian takeaway here. All of the staff left to set up another business & new staff they git in quickly & the owner didn't understand food hygiene & the place went downhill very quickly. Took a while before people realised, but enough people complaining about food poisoning & seeing the place dirty & it was reassess as 1... it's been 1 for years now🥴 whilst the new place is a 5. So it can happen that they lose key staff & start to fail at the basics

ArblemarchTFruitbat · 05/11/2021 01:26

Naah ... but everything in my house is covered in a layer of cat hair so my standards are pretty low.

MoiraNotRuby · 05/11/2021 01:30

I'd say no, but then again I had lunch in Wetherspoons today which was not exactly clean... in my defence there was nowhere else open!

DappledThings · 05/11/2021 07:49

I probably wouldn't have noticed either of these things. If I did notice I probably wouldn't have thought much of it anyway.

icedcoffees · 05/11/2021 08:07

Why would it be outing?

I suspect there are loads of grubby eateries out there. The one you visited won't be the only one in your area, let alone the whole country!

Chloemol · 05/11/2021 08:13

Yes, and I would be reporting to environmental health

Bagelsandbrie · 05/11/2021 08:15

Out them! Why not? Bad hygiene is bad for everyone.

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Yearn · 05/11/2021 09:50

@ArblemarchTFruitbat

Naah ... but everything in my house is covered in a layer of cat hair so my standards are pretty low.
You wouldn't expect a food related business to have higher standards than ones you maintain at home?
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ArblemarchTFruitbat · 05/11/2021 10:02

You wouldn't expect a food related business to have higher standards than ones you maintain at home?

It's not really about expectations - I just doubt I'd notice a layer of dust/grease as you describe.

languagelover96 · 05/11/2021 10:03

yeah eww