Take aways reusing previous days food?

Legacy_user

Is this a normal practise? I've not noticed it in chip shops, but it seems fairly regular in Chinese take aways, I've went in a few times shortly after opening time at 5 and got chicken balls like leather due to the amount of times they have been reheated and chips with no potato in them again due to the amount of times they have been reheated, or sauses like tar. I would of thought going in to a take away at opening time you would get fresh food, but I guess not.

MrsE_2

ALL catering establishments re-use food.

Olliebeak

Even back in the 60's, my mother wouldn't dream of sending us to the chippie on a Friday until after 5.00pm (they opened at 4.00) as they were known for serving 'warm-ups'!

Pretani

MrsE wrote: »

ALL catering establishments re-use food.

That's hardly an excuse:rolleyes:

Pretani

Hard re-fried chips seems to be the problem around here. We have done away with that by cutting out the delivery and collecting direct from the Chinese.

MrsE_2

Pretani wrote: »

That's hardly an excuse:rolleyes:

No, its not an excuse.

Just telling the OP not to expect any different.

ravylesley

Olliebeak wrote: »

Even back in the 60's, my mother wouldn't dream of sending us to the chippie on a Friday until after 5.00pm (they opened at 4.00) as they were known for serving 'warm-ups'!

Yep same here as they would rewarm the leftover lunchtime chips for the first batch.It seems to me though that most takeaways use preprepared frozen chips these days so that might be why they dont reheat so well

Lesleyxx

lynzpower

Theres a seller around here who has a kiosk selling ? latin american syle food.

The rice is constantly warmed on the fron- ie a half started tray at 8am?? come on

I keep meaning to let EH know of that, rice is one of the most dangerous things to reheat if its not done propely.

nodwah

My friend used to work in a 4 star expensive hotel and the salmon was served one night, next might it was salmon mousse and the next night it was fish cakes!

Tia_Maria06

It just really gets me annoyed that I cannot find a take-away thats sells decent, fresh food!! Take-aways are supposed to be a treat for me so I dont have to cook or clean up for the night, but I am sick of paying for c**p, and if you say something to them they look at you as though they are gonna kill ya! (the food may well just do that!) So, they lose a paying customer!

I just wish they (and other places) would pull their socks up and start looking after the customer..

grrrrr

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