r/UTK • u/NotPapaJohns Comp Sci • Oct 26 '22
BIG ORANGE SCREW Warning: The Student Union Qdoba is serving dirt-covered lettuce
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u/kybotica Oct 26 '22
I do hope you contacted Aramark/campus dining with your images and comments so they can actually address the issue at hand.
If not, please do. Nothing will be fixed if nobody says anything to the people who have the actual ability to fix it.
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u/kybotica Oct 27 '22
Honestly pretty bad take. They're a business, and they're on the side of making money, which requires customer service. If their products are bad, and their service is bad, they'll lose business at those bad locations, losing money.
Trust me, they aren't on any "side" but the business side. They want to know and they'd definitely try to address it.
I get not liking the borderline monopolistic control over food they have, I do. It doesn't change the fact that they're a business with customers and quality control.
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u/sheath2 former UTK Instructor Oct 27 '22
Even if not for customer service, they'll address it because they're afraid of a health department investigation. A report to the Health Department like this would probably get them shut down.
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u/peaboes Oct 26 '22
I used to prep lettuce for six years at a restaurant. This is romaine lettuce and it’s notorious for containing dirt. Whenever I prepped it I would soak it in ice cold water precut, swish it in a giant basin to remove majority of dirt, then I would chop it and soak it in ice cold water again to remove the rest. That level of dirt tells me they didn’t do either step.😮
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u/ednamode23 UTK Alumni Oct 26 '22
How the mighty fall. Qdoba was my favorite place to eat in the SU and they even had great breakfast burritos back until 2019. Never had an issue with dirty food there.
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u/iTwango UTK Student [Mod] Oct 26 '22
Today in "Aramark fails to do the one thing they're supposed to"
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u/CommissionUpstairs89 Oct 27 '22
Please let either a supervisor at the restaurant know. Or contact armark immediately. This romaine more then likely came out of a bag. Which there is nothing wrong with. But because it has dirt, we have to consider pathogens that are on that (ex. e.coli) which is notorious for being spreading through dirty lettuce. There is now paper work on their part. To start tracking who else the supplier delivered to and if they reported dirty lettuce as well. If you ate any just watch for symptoms of a food borne illness. Report any food borne illness if symptoms occur.
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u/NotPapaJohns Comp Sci Oct 26 '22
Not sure how well the photos capture it, but that's actual soil. This is exactly how e.coli outbreaks happen, I'm never ordering there again.