Why do we use cutlery in restaurants

[Nannyogganny]

I was thinking this recently

Those knives, forks and spoons have been INSIDE thousands of other people's mouths.

I was starting to get disgusted by the thought. I think it is such a weird practice.

I have now bought my own cheap plastic disposable cutlery, and bring it with me

Most restaurants etc will use a dishwasher and things will come out hygienically clean - much cleaner than washing up by hand.

Maybe you haven't been to a pub recently. The KPs wash the cutlery. Maybe there's a dishwasher, maybe not. In my experience.

Yes, I've heard of a Kitchen Porter. I'm unsure about their connection to the cleanliness or otherwise of cutlery, however.

They are WASHED 🤷🏼‍♀️

So you've never seen a KP quickly swirling the cutlery in the middle of a busy service, clearly 😄

When I complained about plastic straws, I got jumped on 😬

Clearly...

😱that is gross!

Take your own cutlery, but metal, not plastic. Better environmentally.
It's a bit weird, but I will use an anti bac wet wipe to wipe my table, high chair for my dc when we sit down and menu if it's plastic before use. 🤷‍♀️
The same cloth is used from table to table and is filthy.🤮

What are you on about? 😂

🤣🤣🤣

Then maybe don't speak with such authority! KPs wash cutlery, just like they wash plates, boards, and saucepans etc.

Bless that you all think that every bit of cutlery goes through some kind of nuclear heated cleaning device!

On here? I wouldnt jump, I love a plastic straw, got a massive pack in the drawer

on aibu ages ago 😄

omg, I went to the us and forgot to get plastic straws! They’d only be for dd, the paper ones just cause problems

After many many years in hospitality. Tbh sanitized cutlery is not guaranteed.

Glasses too for your drinks I assume? 😂

you don’t seem it…

Funnily enough, glasses get washed/sanitised more than cutlery does. They go into a glasswasher. As another PP has noted, the equivalent does not always happen to cutlery.

Yup...

Brushes at the hair dressers, files at the nail bars, trying on clothes and shoes. Buttons on traffic lights, taxi door handles. Books, newspapers magazines. The list is endless. Who has the time to worry about these things

That doesn't mean all restaurants are gross. Sorry, but you're being unreasonable.

I'm not putting any of those things into my mouth.

And, actually, nail bars can pass on really nasty fungal infections.

Why not go the whole hog and take your own paper plates OP? In fact, bring your meal too.

Why cheap plastic disposable cutlery? You can’t know that it was hygienically packed. Get robust stainless steel that you can clean yourself

I hate paper straws, wont use em.

YANBU