Cook smoking at takeaway?

[girlfriend44]

The person who owns and runs a takeaway near me is always smoking!
He smokes outside before starting the Cooking and sometimes in the evening between customers?
Would this give you the Ick and is it allowed?
Can you smoke and Cook for the Public?

Do they not have soap and water where you live?

Brilliant. I am picturing someone dressed like a concierge, with a crisp white towel folded neatly over their arm, perfectly poised and waiting to dab.

Wtf

Don't you understand soap and water?

How do people think this is acceptable? Smoking in general is absolutely vile but to do it in amongst cooking is just not ok. People who smoke can never smell it on themselves and everyone who smokes stinks of it.

It’s not “amongst cooking”, whatever that means. They stand outside and smoke. On their break. My god.

My dad was an EHO. He told me that the reason smoking was a no in the kitchen was because it involved the hand continually touching the mouth. I would expect that after having a smoke outside during a break, the chef would wash his hands before touching food, just as if he’d been to the toilet.

They're not sat there dropping fag ash in your soup

Do you ever eat out, have takeaways?

How do you qualify that none of the chefs smoke?

It’s right there in your OP, @girlfriend44!

”Would this give you the Ick….” (my bold).

The same could be said for eating but I doubt anyone would have an issue with a chef having a quick sarnie on his break. Ditto talking on a mobile.

Tbh, having worked in many kitchens when I was younger smoking chefs are the least of my concerns when eating out...

I think she meant she never actually said she used the takeaway. But the more people
that hear how cringey and pathetic that phrase is the better!

So you know he doesn't wash his hands?

Smoke lingers. It stays on you. You can always smell it.

Brilliant. I am picturing someone dressed like a concierge, with a crisp white towel folded neatly over their arm, perfectly poised and waiting to dab.

Smokers need not apply

I've got a nose like a bloodhound and smoke lingers in the hair, on the clothes, your breath etc.

It doesn't linger on properly washed hands.

Assuming the chef isn't in the habit of rolling people's food around his clothes, licking it or rubbing it in his hair, I really can't see the problem?

Exactly!

Quite.

It looks awful when smokers smoke outside their place of work.

If you must do it, go round the back.

Actually a PP made me curious enough to AS the OP and put 'takeaway' in the keyword bit.

Jeez @girlfriend44 you really do have a thing about them, don't you? 😳

Why are you telling us that?

Go and tell him.

Or don’t use his establishment.

Whatever, really.

Not sure what you’re hoping to get from this thread?

Not just round the back @girlfriend44 smokers should stand literally in the bin, but only if it's a bin hidden behind a tree and only if they're also willing to flog themselves with a barbed whip before scrubbing their hands raw, covering themselves in dettol and putting on brand new clothes after every cigarette. I mean don't they realise that they're offending you, for fucks sake, how do they even get through the day!

Those bloody buggers, smoking their legal cigarettes, legally in an outdoor space.

As others have said as soon as I read you used the word "ick" I rolled my eyes how old are you?

A smoking chef would be the least of my worries if my son had a girlfriend44 still use Ng words like this at an adult age.

What’s with the takeaway obsession, @girlfriend44 ? Advanced search is slightly boggling.

Are you quite OK….?

I've decided this is a smoker basher thread and I'm reporting......each to their own....you don't like it....you don't use it.....its a take away.....I'm pretty sure the smokers are the least of your worries......