While I can attest that you can have a lot of fun with a Kitchen Nightmares binge, it's hard not to be a little paranoid about the restaurants you visit after see Gordon Ramsay comb through gunk-covered kitchens and freezers for long enough.
And although we all have our favorite places to eat, the unfortunate reality is that you never truly know what an unfamiliar restaurant is going to have in store for you. After all, looks can be deceiving and it's entirely possible to be perfectly fine after eating at a hole-in-the-wall place only to end up getting food poisoning from a eatery that seemed much fancier.
But as one woman recently made clear on TikTok, there is a way to avoid the riskiest places that could've been under our noses all along.