Hotel Worker Explains Why You Should Avoid The Free Buffet Breakfast
A former hotel worker has posted a warning on TikTok: don’t eat the free buffet breakfast at hotels because the conditions under which it is prepared are grotesque.
Hotel Worker Warns Against Eating Free Hotel Breakfasts
In a NSFW TikTok video (there’s some bad language), Brandi Augustus tells us that she worked for several hotel chains over a 15-year period and has come to the conclusion that you are very foolish to eat the “free breakfast” that many budget hotel chains offer to guests.
Don’t eat the free breakfast! #hotelhacks #nightaudit #hotel
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Augustus shares about how one paper towel, a single one, may be used to clean the entire kitchen. She say things like waffle irons and dishes are never really cleaned.
However she says you are safe if you stay at a place like a DoubleTree or another hotel that has a chef actually making breakfast.
I don’t actually doubt that hotel breakfast buffets and the kitchens that prepare them would gross us out if we saw how the food was prepared, stored, reused, and cleaned.
Still, I take the “what we don’t know won’t hurt us” approach. Such an approach is not necessarily rational, but I think weighing the odds of whether I’ll get sick from eating this food is rational. After all, the kitchens at some of the finest restaurants have been exposed as rat-infested dens of hazardous waste.
I don’t think about what sausage is made out of, I just eat it. When food drops on the ground, I pick it up and eat it. If my child’s pacifier drops in the dirt, we brush it off and put it back in her mouth.
That’s just me. Maybe I’ll get salmonella poisoning one day and come to regret this course of action. Maybe I’ll go vegan and not have to worry about it.
But for now, I’m just going to acknowledge the warning from Augustus, keep eating hotel breakfasts, and take my chances.
Life is too short to be a germaphobe!
How do you approach the questionable sanitary conditions of hotel breakfasts and buffets in general?
(image: La Quinta // H/T: View From the Wing)