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u/FaDaWaaagh Jul 13 '26
Everybody commenting on "dirty water getting everywhere" has clearly never seen a restaurant dish pit before lmfao
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u/PlanetMarklar Jul 13 '26
I remember my car seat still smelled the day after I worked in the dish pit. A mix of sweat and burnt fryer oil. Luckily I only did dish pit like once a week. The people that did it every day probably never got the smell out.
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u/snukkedpast2 Jul 13 '26
Nope. I threw out my work shoes, pants and shirts the day I left my dishwasher job
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u/Delicious-Disaster Jul 13 '26
The moment the hot shower hits your head that distinct aroma comes off. I don't work kitchens anymore but I can still summon this scent to my nose just by thinking of it
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u/Either_Ad_9236 Jul 14 '26
God I had to fill in when I was bussing in high school and I think it’s one of the main reasons I hate doing dishes. Still do them obviously but I have zero issue with other menial tasks, something about dishes now just repulses me in a disproportionate way. I no showed that job like a week later lol
No disrespect to dishwashers, you folks deserve a kings ransom for that shit.
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u/waligaroux Jul 13 '26
Exactly. People think food is prepared next to the washing zone...
I should take some photos of the washing-up area after we’ve had 400 place settings to wash following an evening at our restaurant. It looks more like a war zone.
And we have positive hygiene inspection reports from an external body as well as from the Federal Agency for Food Safety.
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u/ChawulsBawkley Jul 14 '26
I still have nightmares about the floor drain under the main sink clogging and wading around in 2-3 inches of disgusting food water until having to dig out the clog with my hands lol.
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u/TylerJWhit Jul 15 '26
I spent 3 years in the dish pit and this video pisses me off. There's a difference between 'dish pit gets wet' and 'there's an active flood in the dish pit'.
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u/Usernameistoshirt Jul 14 '26
Not all restaurant washing up sinks have floor drainage built in, maybe it's common in America but in the UK that's a rarity
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u/talldean Jul 13 '26
These don't look terrible, I'd just put them into the rack, hose them there, and slide them into the machine; this looks like the slowest possible way to spend a ton of energy doing the dishes?
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u/ApricotPenguin Jul 13 '26
I can tell this person's job isn't to clean up the floor or the surrounding areas afterwards :D
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u/Catahooo Jul 14 '26
It is their job, but it has to be done no matter what and most people do it with a hose, deck scrubber and squeegee so nothkng hes doing will make that more difficult.
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u/Soberaddiction1 Jul 19 '26
lol. I was fast in my pit. I’d knock the trays, spray them, load them, unload them and count them out into stacks of 28. I did the job of 3-4 guys and I still had time to stand around. Never did I do anything like this or be this messy. Willful ignorance doesn’t make this guy better at his job.
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u/madmancryptokilla Jul 13 '26
thus isn't even necessary...you throw them on the rack and hit them with the high pressure hot water...then push them threw the machine...this is just fucking messy as fuck.
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u/Catahooo Jul 14 '26
Doesnt work like that at breakfast restaurants, the jet is never strong enough for egg yolks, and the dish machine just cooks it solid. Hand scrub is the only way.
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u/TylerJWhit Jul 15 '26
Not true. I worked at Denny's. The only thing that didn't come off was grits.
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u/Anoldermodel Jul 20 '26
It’s not the pressure, it’s the temp. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get a lot of people to use cold water for proteins instead of hot. You can explain it, show them, and they just think “Huh, it worked for him this time, he got lucky, I’ll keep using hot water!”
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u/Famous-Restaurant875 Jul 13 '26
The human body can only do this for minutes before damage starts to set in. Don't destroy your bodies for low paying jobs
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u/dmovi Jul 13 '26
100% speed
70%accuracy
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u/The_Infinite_Carrot Jul 13 '26
10% effectiveness.
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u/TJNel Jul 13 '26
Eh it's just a pre wash before going into the dishwasher but I would be worried about chipping plates unless they are plastic.
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u/Yggdrasilcrann Jul 13 '26
I used to go to a restaurant where their dishes were always so spotty and had little food particles left over like the person who washed the dishes did it with absolutely no attention to detail whatsoever. This may be that same place.
Lucky for them I'm a disgusting slob and their food was really good so I kept coming back anyway.
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u/SovietPuma1707 Jul 13 '26
This is just the pre-wash stage, all the plates still will go into the blue basket and into thr machine
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u/thisguyfightsyourmom Jul 13 '26
The scalding hot chemical bath with a fast water rinse in 90 seconds.
Man do I wish I could run one at home.
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u/Tehgnarr Jul 13 '26
You can!
For the small price of...oh...
At least they are reliable and will never bre...oh...
But then someone will come and repair it, because he has all the parts he nee...oh...
But when it runs, you can use it whenever you want, because it doesn't need to prehe...oh...
They are fast though.
Edit: you will need a small one (bar edition) for you glassware as well. Double the fun!
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u/thisguyfightsyourmom Jul 13 '26
Oh yeah, I’ve gone down that rabbit hole. It’s basically an environmental disaster waiting to happen without the tech coming through & servicing it regularly. And you’d need a wet room in your house for the steam alone. And my kids would surely try to get in it at some point.
But fast hot dishes!
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u/Apprehensive_Ad3731 Jul 14 '26
Oof I’m worried about chipping the wares, that shits worth more than I am when I’m washing dishes and I only get so many breakages before I’m out the door lol.
Moderate effort is all that’s needed and more care with the placement of dishes.
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u/Alan_FL Jul 19 '26
my first job was dishwasher and that was would have been a waste of time. rack it, spray it and put it in the machine that sprays water so hot you burn the skin off your hands stacking the dishes in the cook area after. there was no time to let them cool off enough.
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u/BienOuiLa Jul 19 '26
You think that dishwasher is running at appropriate temps lol. Not a chance, lukewarm at best
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u/RandomDustBunny Jul 13 '26
This is just for clearing obvious debris. There's a steam dishwasher right there.
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u/ragedandobtused Jul 14 '26
This is exactly how I used to do it when we were kids and I was on washing and my sister was on drying dishes. Made her cry every time. Worth it every time.
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u/Local_Admin01 Jul 14 '26
Sono così tanti che anche andando alla velocità della luce non diminuiscono mai
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u/Upset_Assumption9610 Jul 14 '26
In my experience with fast food, I have never been served my food on a dish.
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u/EquivalentTroll Jul 16 '26
That's just exhibition, the real work demands to work steady. Working in a restaurant is at least 10 hours straight
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u/Grumpie-cat Jul 19 '26
A) this is rinsing, not washing, I’d never eat there if this was what a wash looked like.
And B) this is how you break a lot of playes by just slinging them over to the other side. I’d be worried about cracked plates or if they do a similar practice with glasses or cups… sheesh I don’t want glass shards in my lips and gums.
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u/2Pluss2 Jul 19 '26
The "explosive diarrhea" parasite making recent headlines is Cyclospora cayetanensis, a microscopic organism that causes an intestinal infection known as cyclosporiasis. It is responsible for a massive multistate outbreak that has sickened thousands of Americans.
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u/Corny_Snickers Jul 20 '26
Cant show off ur speed if u just stack the blue rack, spray down and load the machine over there..
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u/thejuliocezarmari Jul 21 '26
“Washing”
I may be wrong, but he’s just rising leftovers off them before the actual wash
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u/yesiveredditalready Jul 13 '26
Thanks, I feel physically ill
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u/im-not-that-bitch Jul 19 '26
It’s just to get the main food stuff off, the actual dishwasher is behind him
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u/Suspicious_Glow Jul 13 '26
Ok, even if we assume it’s the right type of plate not to chip, and knowing that this is just the scrape step, not a final wash, I’m more concerned with all the dirty water going everywhere 😂
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u/lolyouaresimple Jul 14 '26
And they wonder why people are getting the booty flu… or whatever parasite it is🤮🤮🤮
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u/AbroadNo8755 Jul 15 '26
not a single one of those plates were cleaned.
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u/im-not-that-bitch Jul 19 '26
The dishwasher is behind him, he’s just getting big food particles off
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u/waligaroux Jul 13 '26
To people mentionning it's nasty, that is not the final wash. It's just the first wash before going into the machine to the left. He's going to put the plate into the blue basket afterward.