To my rant >>
My family went out to the Brisbane bayside quite a few times back in the summer holidays in January, mainly because my sister had been taking out dog to obedience classes there. Because it was on a weekly basis on Sunday night, we would have dinner at a nice restaurant, opposite the bay that had outside eating so it was a nice meal. Prices were decent, and the food was awesome. We normally have fish and chips there, and it always comes with salad and we also buy milkshakes which are nice too. Price for fish and chips + salad was $9 IIRC. Milkshakes were $3.
It seems the locals liked it there too, it was usually full of people, and was well lit, waiters were nice and was a generally enjoyable place.
Well today we went down to Wynnum again (at lunchtime) and went to a place further down the road where my dad had to go to some exhibit or expo thing. After that we decided to have fish + chips somewhere, and I suggested we go to the place down the road where we went heaps of times, and is a 5min walk down the road. But oooh no we had to eat at this other place, which was closer as my dad couldn't be bothered walking or even driving just down the road
so we went to this restauranty place where you eat outside on tables and chairs on the footpath. Their prices were pretty shoddy, and when I saw it I wanted to go to the other place... turns out my gut instinct was 100% correct.Fish and chips at this place was $12, and had no salad and was just *BLEEP* fish with chips (full of fat) just chucked in. We ordered what we wanted, and the person serving us had black stuff under his fingernails, which was totally gross. His clothes were pretty dirty and his hands were dirty too.
My horror continued. Mum wanted quiche so he took it out of the display cabnet and put it on another plate (he didn't use tongues or anything to move it, he used his bare fingers on food (ewww). Then we sat down and waited for him and the other person there to cook it, and I noticed they didn't have gloves on, so they were handling customers food with the same hands that had touched money which has been goodness knows where, and hands that he just coughed on, that had been rubbed on dirty clothes, that were also being used to cook food. See my issue?Well 20mins later lunch finally arrived, and he just put it on our table with a grunt and went back out. We looked at the plate with fish and chips just chucked on, looking really gross. (I wanted to puke, knowing where it came from). Seeing as there were two different types of fish in it, my dad went in and asked what was what. So he came out and picked up our fish from our plate (still with grotty hands) and said 'this is either cod or nile perch, dunno which' and picked up the other one and said 'barramundi' and chucked it back onto the plate and went back in. I couldn't believe it...
Noone really wanted to eat what we ordered... we were dismayed... I also noticed that the place was pretty much empty and all the locals seemed to have ordered from another shop nearby...
The next time we go to manly, I know sure as hell I will never order from that place again. Heck I am surprised noone has contacted the food safety authority or something, they would shut it down in a heartbeat.
A food critic would give it a rating of -9999999999999999999999999/10.
However, I think that the place normally isn't operated by these two people, I hope that someone else normally operates it and they were filling it... I HOPE. From the outside, it looked like a good place, but on the inside it was pure ewwww.
If there was an outbreak of some serious disease and was spread via the practices of that store, I imagine they would get sued a heck of a lot of money. I notice large fastfood chains like McDonalds and Subway seem to do the right thing- have the people operating the register NOT TOUCH food, and vice versa. As they know good practices, and chances are, you are safer eating their food than anywhere else.
I hope you liked reading my big rant, I felt I must pass the word about this dismal place.
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