Work Rant

Normally, I try to limit what I say about my job when I'm posting anything to the internet, but today I saw something that simply can't be ignored. The picture below are of Honeydew melons that were in the walk-in at the City Club.

If this picture does not disgust you, let me explain something real quick... Honeydew melons are supposed to have a light green skin. The skin on these is splotchy brown. Those black spots, parts of the flesh that are so rotten that the flesh gives way with only a slight amount of pressure.

I know what you're thinking... "Why didn't you just throw them away?"

The answer is simple, they've been in there for the past few days, in plain sight. If they were supposed to be thrown away, they would have been by now. I don't know why the club is saving them, and I don't know what they plan to do with them. If they were accepted in this condition, then that tells me we need new people checking in the orders. If it was any of the chefs that checked in the order, then we need new chefs. I know for a fact that they aren't melons that simply sat in the walk-in too long because we go through melons very quickly, and only a gigantic mistake on everybody's part would allow for melons to go this bad. Therefore, I believe that these melons were accepted in this absolutely atrocious state, which is completely unacceptable.

I have nothing more to say on the matter.