Hanice Gutierrez Review of Melting Pot
I am here to warn people about this place. These a...
I am here to warn people about this place. These are just some of the things I've noticed:
You are paying for the "experience", not the food. The food is cheap quality, dirty, and badly handled.
Cheese:
You pay a lot of money to eat cheap quality (corn starch, yes.. corn starch filled) cheese. No, fondue does not need cornstarch.. try making your own at home.. heat up some cheese and a tiny splash of beer or wine until it's hot and well mixed, you will never need the cornstarch! If you have a refined palate, you could totally taste and feel the grainy texture..
The dippers:
The servers prepare the dippers with unwashed hands after handling and sorting all of the dirty silverware and plates from previous customers. Raw meat from those plates inevitably gets on your hands when you work there. When I worked there, I was the only server who constantly washed my hands and used utensils when grabbing the dippers (apples, carrots, bread, brocolli, cauliflower). All of the dippers are constantly being handled with contaminated hands. I told people how to get dipper plates set up without getting their germs on the food you eat but they don't care to do it because they feel it takes more effort to do it with tongs. I believe in health before practicallity. If that's not gross enough for you, then here are some more facts about the melting pot dippers.
The brocolli:
Is blanched and iced. A lot of it is on the brown side. Cold broccoli in hot cheese is just disgusting imo.
The cauliflower:
They tend to put the good looking parts on the top so you don't see the nasty ones at the bottom. It's dark in there anyway, so they are able to get away with more than they would if it was a well lit restaurant.
The apples:
Why would you dip green apples in cheese? That's just gross. If they gave it to you for the chocolate, it would make much more sense but they don't.
The silverware:
They don't wash their hands before they fold silverware. No one makes them do it so they don't feel compelled to. Not even a little sanitizer before touching them by the part that goes in your mouth.
They try to trick you into thinking it's quality food by making the food so expensive. If you have a fine set of taste buds and you have experience with actual quality food, you'd know that this food is basically hot, expensive trash.
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