I think most restaurants have some serious issues when it comes to food handling, proper dish washing, etc…but this one takes it to another level!
this video was apparently recorded AFTER the restaurant was shut down by the health inspector!
http://www.local10.com/news/camera-captures-china-buffet-and-grill-owner-dumpster-diving-witnesses-say-
anyone dining out tonight?
I can’t even watch. 
We only eat at a few places, but I still believe it’s best to prepare your own food if at all possible (not that we always do it, especially now that we’re moving).
southfloirdamom my restaurant list is getting smaller and smaller. I have opened chicken from the supermarket (expiration date 8-9 days in the future) and the smell was rancid/overwhelming…I toss it out and get a refund. the person in the kitchen of a restaurant what do they do? do they even care? a lot of places it just gets used! same with old vegetables etc…
^Isn’t that why there are food prep at the grocery stores? They cook what they can’t sell?
igloo I will occasionally buy a sub at the grocery store or a rotisserie chicken…the store near my house sells those two items like crazy. the rest of already made stuff I stay away from.
We rarely eat out since trying to eat more healthy. So we are salad kings.
. We have a great pizza spot and a great bar that serves good food but other than that everything seems way over priced for inferior food to what we can easily make at home. We’re pretty good cooks I must admit.
We don’t do buffets in restaurants. Too easy to overload.
OTOH my dad’s Publix got voted best fried chicken in the state.Got some good cooks behind that counter.
My son said the grocery stores typically used the chickens with the date about to expire to make rotisserie chicken. Then if they don’t sell, it becomes chicken salad. Not bad, just kind of interesting.
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Do that with seafood as well. We could serve raw shrimp for three days. At the end of day three we would steam it and sell for another five.
“My son said the grocery stores typically used the chickens with the date about to expire to make rotisserie chicken”
it sounds logical but I actually think the supermarket near me moves more fried and rotisserie chickens than raw chicken. they get lines sometimes. that said …what he said is probably correct.
I can’t worry about this sort of thing. It’s not like we are all constantly getting gastrointestinal ailments from eating out or buying prepared foods. The real concern about eating out is not contamination, but excessive calories, salt, fat, carbs, etc. that have made for soaring obesity and diabetes rates. It’s what you eat that counts, not where you eat. As for supermarket rotisserie chicken–it’s cheap, tasty and convenient. One of the great advancements of the modern world! I do roast chicken at home when it’s our main course for dinner, because mine is just better, but if I want to make chicken salad, Caesar salad with chicken, chicken pot pie, etc., a rotisserie bird is ideal.
^^^^agree with every word.
What @MommaJ said. Just because a food has a big bacteria load doesn’t mean it will make you sick. That said, the dumpster diving thing is really gross.I really do want to be the only one to be served my meal. 
I’m a good cook and kind of a food snob. I refuse to eat anything that isn’t delicious, so if I sit down to a meal in a restaurant that doesn’t taste fresh, or is badly prepared, I don’t eat it. If I don’t have confidence in the kitchen, I won’t send it back and let them fix it either. If there’s a scare, like the many at Chipotle, then that place loses my business. I can cook at home.
I am in the food business. Stores that sell many rotisserie chickens ( club stores,supermarket chains) actually order them specifically for that purpose…they are fresh and marinated for best taste and yield
I worked as a waitress at a country club throughout college.
Do not, under any circumstances, send something back to the kitchen or back to the bartender. Never,never,never. You do not want me to elaborate.
Ugh, just ugh, to op and to #12.
Sorry… X_X