Not so much naughty as possibly illegal due to health and safety regs
Back in the day (well, around 2003) I used to do waitress and bar work at the only restaurant in a sleepy village in the middle of pretty much nowhere. Now this place had kind of a good reputation, especially for wine, but also for food. Well, this was true when one of the chefs was on.

As for the money saving boss (sample behaviour - any tips that weren't in coins went into her profits, any card payment tips conveniently "forgotten"), well, apparently use by dates on dairy are "guidelines". So we can clearly use stuff that is a few months over. Even when the few months stretches into years. As I discovered when I had to clear out the cupboards and found a can of 5 year (for some reason I am thinking it was nearer ten, but I think that that is memory just out to scare me) out of date tinned peaches. Mmmmm. So after making a joke about this, I had to make a trifle as it was "cost effective...and fine, because they are preserved".

We threw it out the next day when the other chef was on. I also refused to write "homemade traditional chutney" on the board when said boss discovered that Tesco Value did a pickle which was clearly cheaper than actually making your own. I also had to hide the meat slicer we had, as it had no finger guard. (Still worked though apparently.) And all of this for the princely sum of £3.50 an hour.
(Picotee, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 14:03, 3 replies)

Peaches are a dairy product, now?
Wonders will never cease.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 14:08, closed)

Tins
Tinned stuff lasts for years !
(fire_exit, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 15:53, closed)

Did the meat slicer object to being hidden?

( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sat 9 Jul 2011, 14:25, closed)