The Five Second Rule should be used carefully

2-22-2007 @12:35PM George said... Having managed a large restaurant for a major chain, the following statement is provided for your consideration. If you had observed what I have seen concerning all aspects of food handling, in restaurant kitchen areas, you would never eat in a restaurant, again. Receiving a high health inspection score, simple means those things checked by the inspector during his short visit, obtained a numerical grade. Average inspection last less than one hour. Enjoy your meal.
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2-22-2007 @12:41PM sticktoglue said... dudes, i have been a restaurant manager for hilton hotels copr for 11 years. we have NEVER
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2-22-2007 @12:41PM sticktoglue said... dudes, i am a restaurant manager for hilton hotels corp. we have a no second rule. that means we serve food that has been on the floor for 0 seconds. food from the floor is NEVER served. why would anyone do this?
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2-22-2007 @12:46PM J said... Ha ha ha. This is all so hilarious. 3 second, 5 second, who cares. If it is at your own house you decide how long you will let something sit on the floor before you wont eat it anymore.

As far as resturants, the people that say it happens everywhere are right.

I worked in the restaurant business for at least 6 years. Even your nicer places like Red Lobster do it. Especially things like snow and king crab legs. They are in a shell that you don't eat... so the food inside is ok right? Right? Throw it back in the steamer for a minute. The heat really does kill the germs. As far as crumbs and shoe stomping and everything that gets stuck to it, well then I guess it's still stuck on there.

The lesson that needs to be learned here is really for all of the people that repeatedly complain in resturants. Be nice. The movie Waiting is right:

"Never f*** with people who handle your food".

If you are someone who always has something to complain about when you go out to eat, please do watch Waiting ASAP. Thanks. Enjoy your meal!
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2-22-2007 @12:53PM cassius said... The rule only applies to stuff I'm eating myself. I'd never serve to another anything I've dropped; not even my wife. I also have "abandoned food" rules.
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2-22-2007 @1:01PM Natalee said... Over 30 years ago I worked at a Taco Bell in California. If anything fell on the floor, even if it was already wrapped, it went in the trash.
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2-22-2007 @1:00PM Shaz said... gimme a break here.. theres no such thing as a 5 second rule. I have done waitressing most of my adult life..If management ever told me to pick something up that was dropped he could have my apron!!
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2-22-2007 @1:02PM JewishPartyPlanning.com said... I think that the this 5 second and 5 minute rule should be abolished. I believe that all food that is dropped should be thrown away, regardless of cost.

At all events that hold for clients, we pay close attention to the food services and make it clear to them, that we want everything to be perfect. I once said," Would you serve this plate of food to your bride?"

I wonder how many event planners like me actually take the extra step to make sure that their clients are truly having a meal to remember.

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2-22-2007 @1:13PM BW said... Most all of you are way too anal! I eat food that falls on the floor unless it is sticky and floor dirty. Most food comes from, eats, or lays on dirt. If it don't hurt/kill ya, it will make u stronger (immune system). Even if it is a little crunchy, who cares? You won't die. Get over it! LOL!
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2-22-2007 @1:22PM Audrey Booth said... There was a fancy restaurant in Elmsford, NY called Bill Reiber's. My mother was sitting in a place where she had a view of their kitchen. She saw a bus boy enter with a heavy tray over his head. Perched on top was a basket of rolls, one fell out and he kicked it across the floor, set the tray down, picked up the roll and put it in the large basket of fresh rolls. I've never eaten a roll since then.
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2-22-2007 @1:58PM Malinda said... I am 60 years old now, but when i was in high school I work at a restaurant that the five-second rule applied and then some, if a customer did not eat the roll that came with their dinner we were instructed to give it to the next customer, same with the silverware that was not used. And they are still in business.....
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2-22-2007 @8:45PM Bill Kenny said... The five second rule doesn't even need to apply to expensive steaks. I witnessed a "stick o butter" whisked off the floor of the kitchen at Tavern on the Green, NYC. I was "allowed" to pass through the kitchen enroute to another portion of the building when my eye caught this incredible act. I can only reconfirm that if your uncomfortable with this, don't eat out.
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2-22-2007 @3:00PM jcrate said... I've practiced the 5 second rule my entire _ years and have never gotten sick. What disgusts me is a hair in the food or some other foreign matter.
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3-11-2007 @1:13PM Bunny Peters said... There is NO 5-second rule in our home as we have dogs who are underfoot whenever food is around.... you drop food on the floor and they snatch it up in a heartbeat!!! Once when preparing for a party, I dropped a ~8 oz. hunk of teriyaki salmon on the floor, our 2 pound chihuahua fell on it and snarled away the two other, much bigger dogs who also wanted that salmon...... NEVER underestimate the determination of a canine to snatch and guard his food!!!
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