Originally Posted by
thegrailer
Oh my ... read Anthony Bourdain's book
Kitchen Confidential (available
HERE)
I worked in "nice" resort area restaurants as a busboy while I was in high school and college. One chef/owner, who hired me away from a place where we had both worked previously promised me we wouldn't recycle as we had done elsewhere. That lasted about 2 weeks before big cans appeared at the dishwasher to collect family style vegetables and garnishes from bowls and plates taken from diners' tables. Of course bread was put back in the warmer. That never stopped me from stealing the odd blueberry muffin or garlic bread to hurriedly eat out by the dumpster on a 2 minute break.