On the propriety of restaurants refilling Heinz ketchup bottles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to have to do this when I waitressed umpteen years ago. It was called mating the ketchup bottles and you poured the emptier ones into the fuller ones and then refilled the empties. It was super gross and the bottles got crusty.

Am curious about this. Is combining the ketchup bottles more efficient than just topping off each one with the dispenser? I wouldn’t have guessed so but have never worked in that type of restaurant. Do tell.

[Anonymous]

Using any bottled condiment is just straight NASTY! It’s basically like grabbing a bathroom door handle and then eating. Soooooo many jerks for countless hands must be on those things.

[Anonymous]

Germs*^^

[Anonymous]

We were recently at a restaurant where we were given a brand new bottle of ketchup where we had to take the plastic seal off the top. Gross! Every customer after us ate ketchup from a bottle where we had touched the top with our fingers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Using any bottled condiment is just straight NASTY! It’s basically like grabbing a bathroom door handle and then eating. Soooooo many jerks for countless hands must be on those things.

Wipes in my purse. How I lived all my life until momhood without wipes in my purse, I do not know.

[Anonymous]

And yet I've lived my entire life eating Restaurant ketchup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:all restaurants either refill them from a giant container or marry them together so they all look full.

never worked in a restaurant, eh, op?

Right?? I remember marrying my ketsup after each shift. Both DH and I worked in restaurants and when we have redundant condiments we marry th the two still to this day.

Its hilarious that OP has just figured this out. And the "putting on airs" comment? Instant classic!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to have to do this when I waitressed umpteen years ago. It was called mating the ketchup bottles and you poured the emptier ones into the fuller ones and then refilled the empties. It was super gross and the bottles got crusty.

Am curious about this. Is combining the ketchup bottles more efficient than just topping off each one with the dispenser? I wouldn’t have guessed so but have never worked in that type of restaurant. Do tell.

When I worked at restaurants, we never had the big dispenser. We would marry the bottles, throw away the emptied after all were married and get the new replacement bottles for the empties.

What I hate is going to a place that gives me ketsup in a ramekin. Give me the damn bottle!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Using any bottled condiment is just straight NASTY! It’s basically like grabbing a bathroom door handle and then eating. Soooooo many jerks for countless hands must be on those things.

Wipes in my purse. How I lived all my life until momhood without wipes in my purse, I do not know.

Your neurosis didn't fully develop until now, I guess.

[Anonymous]

They need to wipe off the tops of the bottles, but otherwise, there is nothing objectionable in refilling or marrying the ketchup bottles. If they were using a brand other than the label, that's also a separate issue. But again, this is totally normal and the idea that it's "putting on airs" is one of the more ludicrous things I have ever heard.

[Anonymous]

I can't even imagine assuming that each bottle of ketchup in a restaurant is new.

[Anonymous]

Marrying the ketchup! Had completely forgotten about this task. 15 years past my last waitressing job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't even imagine assuming that each bottle of ketchup in a restaurant is new.

Or thinking that a half-empty bottle of ketchup is gross.

Or thinking that using a bottle of ketchup that someone else touched is gross.

There’s a lot of crazy in this thread. How do you people deal with daily life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think everyone already knows about the refilling of the bottles, and being upset about it isn't a thing.

I waited tables in college. We did it then back in 1996. It isn’t a new thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't even imagine assuming that each bottle of ketchup in a restaurant is new.

Or thinking that a half-empty bottle of ketchup is gross.

Or thinking that using a bottle of ketchup that someone else touched is gross.

There’s a lot of crazy in this thread. How do you people deal with daily life?

Wow. That's such a strange thing to say.