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dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m one of these people. I can smell an apartment infestation from the front door, every time.

And yes, restaurants always get the “sniff check” before we sit down. No-go odors are:

bleach
pine-sol (amonia)
heavy perfume (think “Glade plugin-in”)
insects (roaches, etc)
pet odor (wet dog, litterbox)
sewage (usually a dry floor drain but that’s still not okay)

The first two are obvious attempts at covering up something worse with “clean” smells, and/or the staff has no idea what cleaning things actually means. And they obviously don’t care what olfaction means to someone trying to enjoy a meal, which says heaps about what they think food service actually is. Everything else just speaks to the “I don’t care what you smell” part, or there’s something very wrong with how the kitchen is run. /rant

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John_McMurray@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah no dude, I keep a ten percent mixture of bleach n water around to sanitize surfaces I use for food prep. This is standard practice. The dishes get soaked in a weak bleach mixture after washing. 3 sinks, wash, bleach, rinse.

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- GroundedGator@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  There is a difference between standard bleach and pinesol usage and using it as a way to conceal other smells or problems. Or even worse, not knowing how to use those chemicals to clean. You know how to use a weak bleach solution for cooking surfaces, does your bartender? I’ve seen front of house employees over use cleaning chemicals because isn’t it better to use stronger chemicals to clean. My favorite was the hostess who didn’t want to clean the bathroom so she would just fill the soap and and paper products and fill a spray bottle with Lysol that she would spray around to give the smell of a clean bathroom.
  
  It’s unlikely anyone will notice the smell of properly used cleaning products.
  
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  - dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    My favorite was the hostess who didn’t want to clean the bathroom so she would just fill the soap and and paper products and fill a spray bottle with Lysol that she would spray around to give the smell of a clean bathroom.
    
    This is exactly the kind of BS I’m talking about. I once knew some pool lifeguards that had to rotate through bathroom cleaning duty. I overheard that their MO was to just get everything wet with a hose, splash pinesol on the floor, and call it a day.
    
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  - AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, I can see a place smelling like a public swimming pool being off-putting. 10% bleach is really common across the food industry, though. Making bread, jerky, kombucha, and various grains, each facility had the same bleach concentration for cleaning (among other cleaning and sanitizing solutions).
    
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  - ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    and fill a spray bottle with Lysol that she would spray around to give the smell of a clean bathroom
    
    Depending upon the formula of Lysol, that’s actually worse than not doing anything.
    We’ve got a brand called Lyzol and that seems to be the same formula as Lysol, before it got regulated in the US. If this were to be sprayed, I’d consider the area poisoned.
    
    Lyzol
    
    This contains some chemical that lingers even if you wash the floor with water afterwards and slowly produces volatile compounds, and stays for > a week. This gives me (and a few other people on quora) a headache. Nowadays, I use Dettol disinfectant liquid, which stops smelling after about 1/2 hour of wind.
    
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  - John_McMurray@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I am my bartender. Also the janitor and cook
    
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- Pilferjinx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is basically evey kitchen I’ve worked in. The pine sol can be substituted or more commonly mixed with other detergents.
  
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tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In some areas (depends on local health dept.) restaurant kitchens are required to have weak bleach solutions around for sanitizing food prep surfaces.

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Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Bro, bleach is literally how you are supposed to sanitize restaurant surfaces. This thread is wild.

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- dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Agreed! But “smells like cleanser” does not mean “is clean”. It jams up my radar (sense of smell) so it’s tough to figure out if anything else is up. I’d rather detect no off odors or cleansers at all to be sure.
  
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awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The first two are obvious attempts at covering up something worse with “clean” smells, and/or the staff has no idea what “clean” actually means.

Or they’re the cleanest places you’ve never eaten in.

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- Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah this entire thread is filled with people who think they have superpowers but failing basic logic.
  
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- dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That’s entirely possible. The problem is that with chlorine or ammonia vapors savaging your nasal cavity, you’ll never really know.
  
  I’ve tried to push through in these situations and it’s never good.
  
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intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Well put.

Just wanted to point out when an odor is pleasant it’s an aroma.

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ulterno@lemmy.kde.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

heavy perfume …

“I don’t care what you smell”

This is one reason I stopped eating lunch with other people. Some people use so much of Deodorant (oh the irony in the name) that the volatile compounds get adsorbed onto the surface of fluids in the mouth and then get tasted and also go into the stomach. All I’d say is - They taste bad.

I don’t think those chemicals are supposed to be edible.

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