Health Inspectors here are useless
Hey all, line cook here. I have been in the industry for a few years now and have noticed a stunning, terrifying pattern with the restaurants in Jefferson and Shelby county. To put it bluntly, many kitchens here are outright fucking disgusting.
Just had an interview today in one such example. They hadn’t even opened yet- and it looked like they were freshly post dinner rush. Fries and food all over the fucking floor, fry baskets and hood vents caked BLACK with grease, untouched dishes etc. But the gag is, this isn’t unique, at all!
I have been in half a dozen kitchens just like this- and they all have one thing in common. Health scores above, yes ABOVE 98. Over and over and over. I have worked in a BBQ restaurant with an active, visible infestation of roaches- and overheard the nastiest thing from the health inspectors SUPERVISOR when they walked in… “this is cleaner than most bbq restaurants”.
Guys, it’s not even fucking funny at this point. Jefferson and Shelby county health departments are allowing y’all to eat rat shit, rancid oil food, roach parts, everything you could imagine and they don’t give a fuck because they are either friends with managers or owners of the restaurants- or worse yet, paid off by them. This is a top down problem, from inspectors, to owners, to management, to line cooks who are too underpaid to give a fuck.
How did we let it get this fucking bad? Is anyone going to talk about it? This is an active public health crisis and something needs to be said and done. I cannot be silently scrubbing away at the filth with no help anymore, this needs to be a shift of the ENTIRE industry starting with the leadership. Does anyone feel similarly or have the same experience? There’s no shot I’m feeling alone in this with how many casually FILTHY restaurants I have seen that are just *ignored* or fully passed by inspectors here. Photos are one such kitchen that had this actively going on. The score given was 97. What the fuck yall? Shelby county health dept? Jefferson county health dept? What are y’all doing, get y’alls head out of your asses!
ETA
These photos had been reported to the health department at the time of this infestation a few years ago. They did nothing. In fact, their score went up from 97 to 98. I kid you not, showing roaches TO THE SHELBY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT got the score for this restaurant BUMPED UP A POINT. The SHELBY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT did nothing regarding an active roach infestation. The SHELBY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT does not care about the health of Shelby county. Please advise, everyone the shelby county health department saw roaches and looked the other way!!!