To expect a food outlet to have standards ot sanitation better than my own?

[Chluro]

I feel rougher than a so popped around the corner to a fairly newly opened place that sells everything from "breakfast baps" (the mind boggles!) to tuna mayo rolls and jacket potatoes, they also sell crisps and choc and cans of fizzy stuff, AND DELIVER which felt important to me as this is as close as we get to a chocolate delivery service!

I digress...

the girl working in there looked about as happy as anyone (I presume) working for minimum wage can look, my sympathies are with her, BUT her all-over white coat (think Dr) was FILTHY, it was a trade description misdemeanour to call it a white coat really, stained, just nauseating to look at.

The seemingly profressional stainless steel surfaces and cooking/washing areas did not do enough to draw your eyes away from the grime everywhere. I have worked in food establishments several times over my 30something years and I KNOW there are rules on flooring/ease of cleaning etc and these just don't fit the bill.

Add to this that the girl made a burger for the guy in fornt of me - whilst wearing those thin latex gloves, she got one from the freezer, deep fried it in the chip pan, then splattered it onto the griddle top. In the meantime wearing the same gloves, she removed raw bacon and sausages from the chiller, and placed those on the griddle top. Then she wiped her hands on her coat several times, went over to the other counter and open my roll, smeared it with margarine (UGH) and dolloped tuna mayo on it, with the same gloves on and then put salad in it with the same gloves on.

I am a wimp, so I took it, paid (£1.50 bargain!) and dumped it as I got home.

This turned into a right old rant but the bottom line is, do I phone enviro health about this place? AIBU to expect them to adhere to the basics?

I think you need to ring them!! Its so dangerous they could actually kill someone. The staff should know about cross contamination (i would have thought most people had the common sense to know this not just caterers) They will send someone in to check them out.

Yuk, yuk, yuk.

I would be straight on to the phone to environmental health and I wouldn't have accepted the sandwich from her.

I have made a huge fuss before in Morrisons when a boy used the same gloves to try and serve me cheese that he'd worn to serve the customer before me bacon.

This sort of thing is what puts me off eating out unless I know somewhere really well.

Why why why why why why why do food servers wear those little latex gloves to do food and then wear the same gloves to go in the till and give you your change?

Def report that place. Sounds vile and dangerous.

Just happy to see you dumped the food you bought and didn't eat it. Yikes! Hope you report them, as that is dangerous!

If she'd coughed in to her hand and then wiped her nose on the back o0f the latex glove as she was making your roll the image would have been complete!
errrk

OMG ring them. Get them to nuke the dump!

I ONCE did the butty run to one of those 'maggot wagons' in the middle of an industrial estate. Some of the brown sauce from my colleagues bacon butty oozed out a bit, so she transferred the butty to the other hand, licked her fingers and thumb - which were inside a bloody plastic glove!!!, wiped hand on her overalls then put butty back in that hand to put it in the paper bag...
Then started serving the next customer without washing her hands, changing the gloves etc.

When I got back to work moaning about it the men just laughed at me for being 'fussy about my food'

Sorry slight hijack but some places have terrible standards and as a result I take all my own food with me to work these days.

I reported it. I thought I would feel guilty but you know, I don't ONE SINGLE BIT.

They are going to contact me this week for an anonymous report! This could be the start of a new career in spying