To wish I’d sent the sandwich back and spoke up? Twice.

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Recently I have been in 2 different independent sandwich shops and watched the assistant take the money from the person in front of me and then proceed to make my sandwich without washing their hands or wearing gloves. Both times I’ve chickened out of saying anything but this is grim yes? Are there rules about handling money and then preparing food?
So should I have spoke up or given it’s happened in 2 different places AIBU and over hygienic?! I’ve actually pondered reporting this to the local authority but have no idea if I’m being daft!

Not sure on the legalities but I do consider money, especially coins, to be totally gross and grimy and would (and have done) have said something. So yanbu

Of course they shouldn’t. I wouldn’t go as far as reporting it to the authority and I wouldn’t have the bottle to say, though. Far too English
I was in a Five Guys recently and really impressed with the way they all wear gloves. I then watched the ‘guy’ making the burger put his hand down his shirt and scratch his back. He saw me watching him and so changed his gloves...then scratched his coldsore on his lip with the gloves and continued making our food.
I ate it but promised myself never to watch in food places again as it always grosses me out. I could see the chefs making breakfast in a restaurant through the hole in the wall type things and they would crack the eggs and pick up the raw bacon and then get back touching the toast, etc.
Best never to look

I don’t know if it’s changed now but I worked in Greggs as a student and we didn’t use gloves. We were told it was more unhygienic to use gloves unless you changed them every single time you touched something else. So I regularly would accept money from someone then go to make a bacon sandwich or whatever. Never considered it really and no one ever complained. Well, one woman did once say she couldn’t accept a biscuit because my hand had grazed it... I was coming to the end of a hellish 8 hour shift and seriously wanted to tell her to get fucked. We washed our hands regularly, I wasn’t diseased.

then scratched his coldsore on his lip with the gloves and continued making our food
I ate it

Boak! 🤢 Never ever ever do that again. I have regular cold sores on my nose and when they kick in, I suffer from neuralgia from the roof of my mouth, up my cheek, through my eye and suffer headaches. Please don’t underestimate the danger of a cold sore.

Ansumpasty that’s grim!
I wish I’d said something but I’m not sure how I would phrase it and would I ask for a new sandwich?

Last week in Morrisons someone rubbed their nose then went to serve me...I walked away but wish I had said soemthing

Back when I was a student I worked in a sandwich shop that had separate grills and knifes for meat and non-meat food stuffs. I don't think any of my colleagues observed the rule; I'm sure that everyone that ordered a veggie sandwich had some trace of meat in their sandwich.

I've seen more than one fast-food worker wiping their sweaty foreheads whilst preparing food.

Grim as fuck.

I did refuse a sandwich once - the woman making it made a prawn roll before my order (gloved hands but picked up the prawns with her hands) and then made my sandwich without changing them. I'm allergic to shellfish and asked her to make me another sandwich with fresh gloves, she was a bit offy about it, but I was lucky I saw her do it or I'd have ended up really ill.

What you describe is revolting and completely unacceptable. Gloves should be worn, or hands should be washed or one person preps while the other does money. It's no good - tell them it's no good. Change or report them to the council. What's their displayed hygiene rating????

Yes,there are rules about handling money and then prepping food,I've worked in food and beverage for years. Washing hands between tasks is something I've always been taught to do,it's all down to food hygiene and 'elf n safety.
Always always wash hands before prepping food,no exceptions.Money is filthy!

I was on a food stall at our school fair recently, and even we amateurs had the cop on to have different people serving, from handling money.

I've walked away a number of times and been made to feel a fussy cow. More than once it's been in an ice cream place. Server sometimes with gloves sometimes without serve one person, take the money then picks my cone up with the same hands. I don't want those hands on my cone which I was planning on eating. The point of gloves surely is to take them off when you take the money. Another time was a service station. He put my ciabatta on the toaster and pressed it down with the palm of his hand after I'd seen him touch money. He said they have to wash their hands every 20 minutes so they were fine! 20 minutes. I don't want anyone touching my food after touching money - a serviette could have been wrapped around the cone for example. There are ways around it.

I can't stand the whole sandwich making thing! In less than a minute, I saw a server using a card payment machine and the wire was dragging along this meat-juice covered chopping board, then dangling into salad as she held it across for a customer to use, then back and resting on a sandwich which was on the board waiting to be cut and packed. Fucking disgusting and that was just the very short while I stood there.

I've also seen handling of money whilst wearing gloves and then touching food using the same gloves so what the hell is the point?!

If you really thought about it, no one would ever eat something prepared by others. That touching raw bacon then toast thing has made me heave.

We've just recently stopped going to a lovely independent butchers because of something similar.

Weighing out bacon. Directly on scales. Scooped up with ungloved hands and put into bag.

Same hands on same weigh scales (not wiped) to then weigh chicken, and pork chops.

The food is fantastic and we pay a premium but nope to all that cross contamination.

I've never noticed this sort of thing but then I do have a very robust immune system do doesn't really bother me

YANBU. I work with money and it is filthy. After a full shift counting cash my hands are black.

The polymer notes are an improvement but it’s all still covered in crud. Especially coppers .

Polite, there is no cross contamination in what you have described
Cooked meat on scales after raw meat yes, but not raw meat followed by raw meat.
I am wondering what you think the problem might possibly be?

That was addressed ,- politely - to Plire

My immune system is superb and I never get ill because I don't care about stuff like this.

Id much sooner a sandwich maker be gloves off. They are more likely to wash their hands between meals as they can feel dirty.

Do you wash your hands every time you touch money? What about if you pay for your ice cream do you then run to the toilet, wash your hands, then run back to collect said ice cream from vendor? I'm sure we all do lots of things listed above when making food for friends without realising. Spit or snot in food is grim but no need to get hysterical about hygiene. (Or don't eat out!)

I notice this too, and I tell you the worst place I see it, the butchers! They do not wash their hands after handling the meat it baffles me, they all do it!

They passed a law in New York that made everybody preparing food wear gloves. Food poisoning went up because they didn't bother to wash or swap gloves.

Unless you have a seriously compromised immune system, you're not actually going to die horribly because someone touched a coin then touched your butty.
People are far too precious and whiny about germs, to the extent that they are actually more likely to damage themselves with excessive use of cleaning products than food someone coughed within a foot of.

see this all the time people wear blue gloves then handel money with them