“At Denny’s, their syrup dispenser was never cleaned or rotated with another dispenser in the three years that I worked there. The manager would also heat up plastic bottles of the syrup in the microwave before pouring it into the dispenser.

He expected me to do this as well, to speed up the time it took to refill the dispenser. Also, no one ever properly cleaned the milkshake blenders. They just got left in the sink with water and rinsed out when you had to make a new one.”