Nice...bet you never eat out 
2 things to look at when eating at a restaurant: 1. Is it family owned? Does the mother work in the kitchen? Actually, CERTAIN franchised restaurants are clean, but some are terrible, so don't get fooled at this factor.
2. Generally (not to stereotype...people are clean/filthy in every culture
) but different cultures have (generally) different standards and traditions. As a rule, French,German, Swiss, Austrian restaurants (chefs) are the cleanest and most demanding with standards, and it goes down the scale from there. The absolute bottom of the scale in hygene and cleanlisness are the south asian restaurants, and many Chinese and Viatnamese...although we love the food and eat in them anyway
. If you walk in the staff bathroom, and there's no toilet paper or soap, it's a pretty good clue you don't want to take your family there to eat. The "eclusivity" (price) doesn't mean anything..sometimes the cheapest mom and pop diners (run by the wife) are the cleanest...don't be fooled by the price, or the dining room. I've worked in exclusive hi-end Chinese places where, in the basement, the rice is left in big open bags on the floor, with rat poison and dead rats/mice strewn about...I saw the little old grandmother walking up to the bag of rice, kicking a dead rat out of the way and scooping up some rice in the open bag of rice (where they feed from).Then I went to crawl under the dishwasher upstairs to check for a repair, and realized the whole floor was moving (thought it was rice!
) When the inspectors show up, the owner is waiting with his wallet, gets paid and leaves(pretty good job!
). So where are you eating tonight?
