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| - A friend and I decided to visit this restaurant as we had not had Long John Silver's food for a very long time. We decided to go inside rather than go through the drive thru. There was one customer ahead of us and we quickly perused the menu and decided what we wanted to order. There were no employees at any of the registers and after a couple of minutes we asked the customer in front of us if he had been waited on as of yet. He told us that he had been standing there at least five minutes without anyone so much as even acknowledging him. We could see four or five employees in the kitchen and drive up window area, but no one seemed to be paying any attention to what was happening front of house. After probably six to seven minutes, a male employee finally made his way to the register and took the order from the man in front of us. As soon as the customer had paid, the employee immediately walked away and did not return for another one to two minutes. He didn't even ask if he could take our order, he just sort of stood there pulling up his sagging pants. My friend and I both placed our order and never once did the employee make eye contact or thank us, or apologize, or generally engage in any way. But, at least we had placed our order and I proceeded to get some napkins and fill up my to go cup with sweet tea. I realized at that point that I could see back into the preparation area of the kitchen and for the next half hour, I was astonished, perplexed and concerned over what I saw. First, there was not any fish even prepped to make. I watched a woman employee have to make the batter for our fish order and watched her dip our order of fish without wearing gloves. Several times, the male employee that had finally taken our order, would leave the cash register and go assist with preparing the food. After handling cash and repeatedly using his bare hands to rub his nose, scratch under his hat and pull those sagging pants up that were so low, we were seeing much more skin than we should have, after doing all this, he would walk to the prep area and start touching food items and food containers. I have never seen anything like this in my life and I can honestly say that this was the worst fast food experience that I've ever had. Needless to say, I will never return to this establishment and would happily suggest to anyone, that picking food out of the dumpster in the back would probably have been much quicker and much more sanitary. This place should be shut down.
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