I worked in the hospitality industry for seven years – these are the disgusting things that happen behind closed doors… and why you should NEVER ask for ice in your drink

When you eat out, you can trust that the restaurant follows proper procedures, is clean, and prepares your food to a high standard.

However, someone who has seen what goes on behind closed doors claims that there are many disgusting habits that customers are unaware of.

A man from Lowescroft in Norwich has worked in the hospitality industry for seven years – he recently bared it all and shared some shocking allegations about the industry’s dirty secrets.

Harry Marjolein, 21, passing by @kingharry on TikTok, he captioned his warning video: “be careful next time you eat.”

The controversial clip has already been seen by more than 260,000 people in less than 24 hours. Some were shocked, but not everyone was convinced that the terrible stories were true.

He warned viewers: ‘I’ve worked in the hospitality industry for seven years and this is what goes on behind the scenes that no one wants you to know.

“Next time I wouldn’t order ice in your drink because there’s an ice machine in the back that probably hasn’t been cleaned in two months.”

The TikToker added, “Black mold in ice machines can even cause death.”

Moving on to his next point, Harry makes the bold claim: ‘The waiter handling your food probably hasn’t washed his hands for the entire shift.

“Say you’re eating at 5pm, they’ve probably been there for about eight hours – that’s gross.

‘There’s no question that a chip has fallen off your plate in the time it took to get from the kitchen to you and the waitress has just put it back on the plate – you’re eating chips that have been on the plate. floor.

“I once saw someone sneeze while carrying four plates – he obviously couldn’t cover his mouth – a waitress probably sneezed on your food.”

On hygiene, he shockingly said: ‘If you see the bartender and your waitress disappearing, they’re probably having a quickie in the toilets.

Harry warned: ‘I wouldn’t order ice in your drink next time as there’s an ice machine in the back that probably hasn’t been cleaned in two months’

“It’s happened more times than I can count and no, they don’t wash their hands or clean up when they get back – they go straight back to work.”

Harry continued: ‘In the summer it gets very hot, of course, and you sweat.

‘I used to work with a woman who would wipe her forehead with the same blue paper towel all day and keep it in her pocket – it’s fucking disgusting.

‘If you go to a restaurant and it doesn’t have an open kitchen, you probably don’t want to be there because the chefs are locked up and you can’t see them for no reason – they’re fucking awful.’

He also warns that ‘the cutlery on your table may look clean’, but in his experience this is probably because someone simply breathed on it and then wiped it off.

The TikToker claims, “It hasn’t been washed. The table probably wasn’t wiped down properly either, perhaps a damp tea towel ended up on your table that had been left in the back for three hours.

‘It doesn’t say anti-bacteria, your table is disgusting.’

He concluded the video by saying: ‘If you didn’t know all this and this has really opened your eyes to a behind-the-scenes look at hospitality, let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to know because there’s so much more you’ll probably know. should know’.

He also shares a warning that ‘the cutlery on your table may look clean’, but in his experience this is probably because someone simply breathed on it and then wiped it off

Some viewers were quick to dispel the shocking stories, writing: ‘Not my pub but stay safe everyone.’

Another responded: ‘I’ve worked in the hospitality industry for 10 years and I’ve never experienced that before.’

Someone else added: ‘The restaurant I worked at was definitely not that lazy, every piece of cutlery had to be put in a pot with finger and water then rinsed then put through the dishwasher then dried and polished before putting it back in the dishwasher went. table’.

A fourth argued: ‘As someone who works in hospitality this just doesn’t happen and places like this should be closed for less.’

However, some commenters chose to share their own experiences.

One user admitted: ‘Once, at my first catering job, one of the chefs accidentally dropped a raw steak and put it on the grill anyway.’

Another added: ‘The chef once showed us how sharp his knife was by shaving his arm hair with it and then kept using it on the food.’

A third wrote: ‘I did it for about two months. The chef I worked with was sweating all the time, sweat was dripping!”

Meanwhile, others wrote: ‘I worked in catering and I literally threw up for an hour and I provided food…my manager wouldn’t send me home’ and ’16 and worked in catering, the ice cream never changed’ .