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Restaurant workers reveal their most disgusting experiences at work

'When they make me clean toilets at work, I use the same towel to clean the tables'

Alexandra Sims
Friday 02 October 2015 11:59 EDT
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Restaurant employees reveal what it is really like to work in catering
Restaurant employees reveal what it is really like to work in catering (AFP/Getty)

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Restaurant employees have lifted the lid on what it is really like to work in catering.

Taking to Whisper, an anonymous app for people to share their most candid thoughts, restaurant staff have dished out anecdotes of the most disgusting things they have seen in their job.

From the mildly revolting, such as dropping bread rolls and not cleaning table clothes, to the utterly nauseating, such as serving mouldy food, some of their confessions might easily be described as stomach-churning.

Some revelations are rather unappetising:

Others are especially sickening:

And these are just plain dangerous:

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