I have been very impressed with many of the small “neighbourhood” style cafes and restaurants in this city. I’m even more impressed with how friendly and enthusiastic the staff are. BUT PLEASE… I BEG OF YOU… Don’t handle the money at the till and then go make my food!
Wash your hands or wear those disposable gloves. Come ON! This is basic food handling protocol. I seriously doubt that any of the fine staff I’ve met would deliberately punch me in the stomach when I place my order. In a sense that’s what they are doing when they assemble my sandwich right after tidying up the 5’s and digging around for change. I don’t want to spend the day chained to the toilet because I ate your food. All you owners and managers out there… MAKE YOUR STAFF USE PROPER HYGIENE WHEN HANDLING FOOD! —Loves Her Local Cafes
This article appears in Jul 15-21, 2010.
Just so you feel better, OP, a lot more gross stuff happens behind that kitchen door. If you haven’t died from eating out until today, chances are you won’t in the future either.
Fuck, what is it about people today. I’m surprised they’re not all wearing bio-hazard suits. People today aren’t sick because fof germs, they’re sick because they’re a bunch of scared little hypochondriacs. Strange how us old folks are still living, when we grew up and the only people who wore latex gloves were surgeons.
Disposable gloves are just as dirty as unwashed hands.
I’m with you, Bro Tim. What I don’t get is those ridiculous hand-sanitizers that are EVERYWHERE. Frig, people, we got along fine without them for the past 40,000 years so this sudden emergence of them a few years back just makes me wonder what people are so afraid of.
yeah, that’s right, you just never know how much cocaine was on that rolled up dollar coin, now do you?
Just watch tv. listen to the radio. There are more disasters heading our way than you can shake a stick at. Gamma rays and asteroids from space. Mutant germs and viruses. Don’t forget Mother Nature and earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, etc, and of course our man made stuff like nuclear devestation and total war, oil, any everythng else. Oh and don’t forget Nostradamus.
No wonder people are so fucked up today.
Someone’s been watching History Television this afternoon…. I love that stuff.
I doubt many restaurants, etc in HRM (or anywhere) supervise the cleanliness of staff members’ hands. Just remember, a lot of people don’t even wash their hands after going to the washroom. YUck.
seb, you weren’t taught not to piss on your hands? LOL.
Urine is sterile. Smegma not so much. Just shower regularly and no problems.
Besides, usually washing your hands BEFORE taking a leak is generally quite a bit more important – to avoid contaminating your bits with whatever shit you are working with (including money).
Just putting this out there, but is the OP washing their hands before eating their food? They handled the cash they used to pay for their food…
You gotta germphobics – they’re so fucking anal. Germs help build up your immune system, OP, sterilizing yourself and expecting others to are the ingredients for one stressful life.
as me old ma would say “we all eat at least a peck a dirt before we die”
Here’s a question for you, OP – what did servers use before plastic gloves came along? That’s right, it was served by people who probably picked their nose, scratched their ass and cleaned their ears with their pinkies – well, kid, millions of people survived being served by such people and will continue to do so for a long time to come.
Exactly. I guarantee these kind of people cost the provincial health care system and least 10 times the cost of smokers that can be bothered going to the hospital when it is time to die. These are the same people who scream the loudest about smokers. They are also the same people who will die younger than most smokers.
Life is nasty brutish and short. Get over it people. When the pain stops, it means you are dead.
Where do these people get off thinking they can walk around free from the discomforts of being human? We are not gods.
TTFN stop giving out the secret ingredients in food.