ThrustMaster:
Sausage rolls, meat pies etc. The meat is delivered in big 50 litre tubs and is in concentrated form.
Soft drinks in a pub from the dispenser gun, as they are delivered in concentrated syrup form and then watered down to virtually water. So I always buy soft drinks in a can.
I won’t buy anything from Curry’s/Dixon’s/PC World, as they are just a bunch of [zb] anyway but they way they throw tellies, laptops around is criminal.
You’d better not buy from Comet either then. Worked for them all and kicked the bejesus out of everything!
and for the record I always try to fly either Etihad or BA, Emirates at a push, the secret is to save a couple of extra hundred quid and make sure you don’t turn right when you get on the plane.
By the time you’ve paid the £70 for parking for two weeks and another £100 on a taxi the other end, the few extra hundred quid you spend going business class pays for itself in the free chauffeur drive service, plus you don’t get treated like an animal!
i worked for comet for 10 years…you wouldnt believe the stuff we had to do to keep our bonus…theres alot of people out there that have had comet install an item and the back of it is caved in…the side of a fridge freezer totally buckled we would offer to push it into place…the bosses would make us do anything to get that item into the house without the customer noticing…fridge freezers not strapped up by the drivers mate taking a tumble.tv s launched by loading staff,laptops etc hurled everywhere…comet is the biggest bunch of cowboys ever…the management place that much pressure on the drivers not to bring any deliveries back its unreal…best thing that ever happend to me was them moving to skelmersdale from deeside unless i would probably still be there now,instead it gave me the kick i needed.
frankie and bennies chesterfield!!! delivered throughh the kitchens, well back door is always open and right opposite door is/was a cooker, 1 day wind was blowing all the crap acroos carpark straight through kitchen door and into big pans of pasta/garlic mushrooms.
F & B hull, went for a pee no sinks in staff toilet/restroom area?? and to be honest Ive seen cleaner rubbish dumps…
but must agree the posher the customer then the worse the kitchens seem…
I did 1 8hr shift as an agency favour for the local Chinese foods wholesaler & helped the regular mate to hump 8tonnes of mostly 25kg boxes & sacks into 10 Chinese fast food joints.
I understand that councils have a responsibility to police the hygeine standards in these fast food establishments !
Apparently, if the food store used to be the outside bog 100yrs ago it doesn’t fall into the councils remit to check it?
The ONLY reason most of their customers haven’t died of food poisoning is the fact that so much is either fried or boiled to death. Of the 10 we visited there was only 1 where I thought the chef took a pride in his kitchen, most were absolutely filthy & 1 nearly had me retching for fresh air.
One of my drinking buddies is a mobile pest controller and drains specialist, he always has some great tales to tell, at least he uses a plain unwritten van so no one knows these 5 star hotels have got rats
If they don’t pay they have a sign-written van that is used
AaronR:
Well with my job on 3663 you get to see loads of disgusting pub and restaurant kitchens, unreal some of them. And, alot of places which market themselves as “posh” and “good home cooked food” is actually just 3663 basic range frozen goods. Nothing wrong with our stuff i hasten to add mind! Even alot of small local tearooms claiming to sell freshly baked cakes are really just selling our premade and precut frozen desserts!
There is a LOT wrong with your food. I stopped frequenting Wetherspoon’s pubs when they changed to your lot from Brakes. The quality is worse than Tesco Value range.
'Spoons don’t use 3663 stuff. It’s probably made in the same factories as everybody else’s but they have all their own lines coming through their own NDC.
AaronR:
Well with my job on 3663 you get to see loads of disgusting pub and restaurant kitchens, unreal some of them. And, alot of places which market themselves as “posh” and “good home cooked food” is actually just 3663 basic range frozen goods. Nothing wrong with our stuff i hasten to add mind! Even alot of small local tearooms claiming to sell freshly baked cakes are really just selling our premade and precut frozen desserts!
There is a LOT wrong with your food. I stopped frequenting Wetherspoon’s pubs when they changed to your lot from Brakes. The quality is worse than Tesco Value range.
'Spoons don’t use 3663 stuff. It’s probably made in the same factories as everybody else’s but they have all their own lines coming through their own NDC.
On 2 separate occasions I’ve seen 3663 wagons delivering to 'spoons pubs. I don’t know if it’s down to the pub owner who they have deliver there or whether 'spoons dictate it, but I know that at least 1 of them used to use Brakes and as soon as they changed to 3663 the food quality fell through floor.
Scarab:
and for the record I always try to fly either Etihad or BA, Emirates at a push, the secret is to save a couple of extra hundred quid and make sure you don’t turn right when you get on the plane.
By the time you’ve paid the £70 for parking for two weeks and another £100 on a taxi the other end, the few extra hundred quid you spend going business class pays for itself in the free chauffeur drive service, plus you don’t get treated like an animal!
Have to agree with that. We fly a lot and I prefer either BA, Continental or Lufthansa. If you shop around or book early you can get some cracking deals. American Express’s concierge service,for example, can often get good prices for first or business class. Fuller size of seats, real plates and as much free booze as you can sink Plus the free/ subsidised limo and accommodation packages etc and a generally much more pleasant experience
Sometimes being cheap can be more expensive. For example when we fly into New York, 1 limo to Battery Park is cheaper than the 2 taxis that would be needed for me, her, the family and all the luggage plus only 1 tip When you rock up at the hotel in a limo you, funnily enough, tend to get treated even better
There is something much more reassuring about a well spoken educated voice on the tannoy announcements as opposed to “Howdy y’all my names Hank and I guess I’ll be flyin’ this here airy-plane today”
Rob K:
The chinky at the top of Woodhouse Hill in Huddersfield is well known for serving cat instead of chicken. Been in the local rag umpteen times.
There’s only two thing’s that have legs that the little yellow people will not cook, the table and chairs, anything else goes in the wok, dirty little [zb]stards
Curry houses are almost as bad, but I’m usually ■■■■■■■ so have lost rational thought by that time and just want something hotter than my mates are eating (unless it’s nianiamh, he has an asbestos belly…and 6 other bellies )
The truckstops and fast food joints over here are disgusting too, underpaid workers who open boxes and tins of crap, I now cook in my cab
Bargain basement fish fingers and fish cakes are made out of the fish skeleton after its been filleted. Nowt wrong with that, you need the roughage to aid digestion
never used a snack van since witnessing one van owner, on the top of bowes on the a66, stood behind his van, in his ‘chefs whites’, smoking and having a ■■■■■. he then wiped his hands on his apron, before starting to cook again. the side door was open and i definitely didn’t see him wash his hands.
happysack:
never used a snack van since witnessing one van owner, on the top of bowes on the a66, stood behind his van, in his ‘chefs whites’, smoking and having a ■■■■■. he then wiped his hands on his apron, before starting to cook again. the side door was open and i definitely didn’t see him wash his hands.
And that goes for every bloody caravan burger in the country. I defy anyone to start work at 6.30 and work until 1500 without needing to ■■■■, that includes the women, what do they use to wipe it?
I won’t not after how i’ve seen them treat their staff.
I also won’t give to save the children, when I was a traffic warden a colleague found a bloke in our doorway who looked like he had been swimming in the river (in winter) was a lovely shade of white and obviously dangerously hypothermic. We didn’t have anything other than our own jackets which he got so we went to Save the children across the road. They wouldn’t give anything after ten minutes we got a childs t-shirt out of them. They’ll save the children in Africa but won’t save a man dying on their doorstep. In my opinion they’re scumbags. Bloke was ok btw.
There’s only two thing’s that have legs that the little yellow people will not cook, the table and chairs, anything else goes in the wok, dirty little [zb]stards
Curry houses are almost as bad, but I’m usually ■■■■■■■ so have lost rational thought by that time and just want something hotter than my mates are eating (unless it’s nianiamh, he has an asbestos belly…and 6 other bellies )
The last Chinese I had tasted like they had cooked the table and chairs it was that bad.
It’s amazing a curry or donner kebab always seems a good choice after a gallon of Stella.
When you rock up at the hotel in a limo you, funnily enough, tend to get treated even better 
