“A fork with tines of varying width — what is this used for?”
A: "Honestly, it looks like a failure of quality control. When the punch came down to cut the slots, the fork blank wasn’t all the way in and was a bit cockeyed. If quality control wasn’t having an off day, it would have ended up in the bin."
"Solved! I asked an employee at the restaurant, and they said these wonky ones came in the same shipment as the normal ones, so they figured they were just mistakes as well."
I confirm, it's for vacuuming
and I confirm they have confirmed it is for vacuuming