Hygeine in food places - gloves

[PippyRose]

So I've just bought some sandwiches from Subway. The girl who served me was wearing plastic gloves to serve the customer before me and was handling money. She then made my sandwiches wearing the same gloves! She took cash from me for payment and then finished preparing the food wearing the same gloves!! God knows how long she'd been wearing them on previously.

I didn't challenge her at the time (probably should have done). But she was friendly and polite and very young. I also wasn't aware of the Subway policy about wearing gloves (I'm still not).

I must admit, I was a bit disgusted but left without saying anything. Surely this is a hygiene issue!?

This happens in many places. It's as if the gloves are to protect the employees' hands from germs, rather than the intended purpose. Disgusting and why I rarely buy from places like this.

Oh don’t even get me started on this. I can no longer go to my works canteen because of the vile food hygiene levels shown by one of the staff.

He is a lovely man but he has his gloves on, handles money and then handles food. I was horrified when this happened and mentioned this to the manager but still it happens.

Ive got genuine OCD though so I never know if I’m over reacting.

This used to happen at a sandwich shop I used in my last job: there were about 5 workers all taking orders at the same time, wearing those blue vinyl gloves and handling money as well as all the salad ingredients and bread/buns ... often wondered what the point was, and why didn't they either use tongs or have one worker just taking the money and the other 4 making up the sandwiches.

I think if you really started thinking seriously about food hygiene you'd never eat anything...

No matter how hard you try all food and the surfaces it touches will be covered in germs and bacteria. Obsessive hand washing/glove changing is futile

Obsessive hand washing/glove changing is futile

no, in commercial food handling it isn't.

btw we have been at a subway last night.
there were 4 people serving. one on bread, next on meats, next on salads, last one on the till.
that's how it should be.

I was at the dentist once, in the chair ready for an extraction. The dental nurse unwrapped a tool, dropped it on the floor at her feet, then picked it up and handed it to the dentist to put in my gob. I stopped her and said that's been on the floor. She said, and I quote, "it's OK this is a clinical environment". The floor was covered in mud at the time because there was dirty slushy snow everywhere outside the surgery and I had just seen the dentist and her nurse walk around in the worst of it. I said you either change that or this appointment ends here and I'm not paying for treatment that hasn't been finished. She pulled a face but changed it. Am I supposed to believe dirty wet mud suddenly becomes sterile the moment it deposits itself on the floor in a clinical setting.

My Point is, many people are right dirty bastards so long as their behaviour only negatively affects others with no comeback on them.

The OP's experience is one I've seen so much that I never eat out.
I wouldn't lick or suck the pound coins in my purse directly so why on earth would I want to do it by proxy.

I also used to work in a pub that served food.
The "chef" used to go for a piss and no way did he have time to wash his hands before poking his finger in everything he was preparing.
The dishwasher out the back used to be full of food remnants and had a smell like someone had taken a shit in it. The dishes were put in it for 10 minutes or so then we had to dry them with a non too clean tea towel.
The salad was never washed, the chef used to just unwrap it and chop it up.
The chopped salad tray was rarely washed.
The salad stayed in that tray uncovered in a warm kitchen from lunch to evening shift.
Prawns for prawn cocktail were kept in the freezer, taken out as needed, run under the hot tap in a sieve and squeezed dry by the waitress who had to then slap it together with some unwashed chopped salad and mystery sauce from the fridge that had been there lord knows how long.
Those examples are just for starters and for the PP who wonders what goes on when you can't see the food being prepped out back. The answer is a lot of things that would make you go bleurk.

Your supposed to wash hands then put gloves on.
You don't have to change from meat to salads. Not even subway uni trains that one.
Absolutely not use gloves for money and then serve again.

Luxana that is grim. No wonder so people get stomach bugs! I remember someone who worked in a small restaurant told me that they took uneaten salad off customers' plates and put it straight on fresh food plates. Bleurk indeed.

The dentist story is shocking!

I agree with you Louise, why wear gloves at all if you're not going to take them off when handling money? Still waiting from a response from Subway.I will post what they come back with. I suspect it should be as it was in your Subway Brownelephant.