To expect better from a cafe?

[wellBeehivedWoman]

I've just been into a cafe near my office for some soup. The girl at the counter was making up a sandwich and added tomatoes to a roll filled with chicken mayo, then decided she'd added too much tomato so removed some and put it back in the tub of tomatoes, covered in mayo on one side. She was then buttering a cheese roll and used the same knife to cut through a meatball sub. All this was done directly on the same worktop with no chopping board.

I know they can't use a different knife for everything but AIBU to expect that they would at least avoid cross contamination between meat and veggie sandwiches? And isn't there an allergy risk here?

I didn't say anything at the time because I was just having soup and they weren't my sandwiches, but now I'm wondering if I should have!

Yes it’s gross. Sadly I have been in plenty of sandwich places that do this (including subway). They don’t change their gloves after touching meat and then make a veggie sandwich.

Yuk, if they do that sort of thing in front of customers what do they do when they are alone. I wouldn’t eat your soup, what hygiene rating have they got?

Yes, you probably should have.

@DailyMailFail101 didn't check, will have a look on my way past next time!

Resting, that's gross - you'd think in a chain like subway they'd have all had better training!

It's an indicator of their hygiene practices generally, so no I wouldn't have taken the soup and I would have told them why. The tomato going from chicken mayo back into the tub is terrible, and using knives for several food types .

If they're being that lazy in full view of everyone, you can only imagine what they're doing in the back...