Because many of the help are brought in from overseas, their sanitary/culinary standards are let’s say not up to speed. You really don’t know if there is chicken in you dish. I may be NYC pigeons, hopefully alive when the cook did the dirty deed. It just goes on and on. I’m not saying all are like this, so take your chances. Info is from a friend who worked in the restaurant business.
We once had an office Christmas party at a local seafood restaurant whose owner was friend of our company’s owner. The restaurant was closed to the public that day.
We had a big dinner around a table that overlooked the dock and Santa Rosa Sound.
The cook had just bought a new boat and it was parked at the end of the dock, ready for when he got off work.
We could see outside that it and the dock were covered in seagulls, just sitting on everything.
Then we saw the cook run out on the dock waving his chef’s hat in one hand and a butcher knife in the other, trying to scare off the gulls from his new boat.
Them someone said, “I’m sure glad I didn’t order the chicken.”............
And when there is a large sign in the bathroom saying “ALL employees MUST wash their hands”, don’t you wonder: Now why did they even have to say that?