Do you consider getting a takeaway risky?

[Frombeantocupyoufup]

Just wondered. Mentioned to friend on WhatsApp that we are treating ourselves to a takeaway from a local restaurant with dessert etc for DH’s birthday this weekend and she was shocked that we would risk it with the infection rate so high where we are.

I hadn’t considered that it could be spreading via takeaway food etc - surely they have to take precautions?

Thank you to all of you who continue to keep ordering Take Aways, you are keeping my small family restaurant going at the moment, something we have spent over 12 years building up and we aren't quite ready to throw the towel in yet. So please keep ordering, there are thousands of families like mine who are grateful.
And to reassure you, most places like mine will already have stringent health and hygiene practices in hand (as demonstrated by the Environmental Health scores) Will have introduced Covid 19 secure measures last year to enable them to open fully when we could, and will stagger collections/limit customer numbers entering the premises like all retailers are doing currently.
So no reason not to enjoy at Take Away at all currently!

Only to my bank balance.

They are risky. A husband of a friend of works in a Chinese takeaway. He said an infected chef knowingly kept going to work so he would continue to get paid. My friend’s husband said the chef sneezed etc into food he was cooking and was carrying the virus at the time. I’ve no idea if people got sick but as he said they lost a lot of business, I presume either word got out that the chef was infected or people got ill.

That said we still order takeaway (a different business).

No

COVID isn't the Black Death...........

Im in london and have weekly takeaways have always been fine.

My relatives sound like your friends though, actually worse, they "can not believe you're ordering a chinese when there is the new strain flying around and London is the way it is, can you not cook it, is it essential"

Actual words from my DGM

P.S Duck rolls and chow mein are always essential.

Personally I think it is.

You don’t know the health of the person(s) cooking your food.

I can totally imagine that many don’t benefit from decent work regulations so more likely to work when not well.

're cooking takeaways, jeez. Defeats the object for me. We've been having takeaways and not 're cooking it and were still alive! Don't consider it a risk at all.

@Thismustbelove

They are risky. A husband of a friend of works in a Chinese takeaway. He said an infected chef knowingly kept going to work so he would continue to get paid. My friend’s husband said the chef sneezed etc into food he was cooking and was carrying the virus at the time. I’ve no idea if people got sick but as he said they lost a lot of business, I presume either word got out that the chef was infected or people got ill.

That said we still order takeaway (a different business).

Then that particular Chinese takeaway was risky even before covid. 🙄

Personally I do not care about any risk relating to a take away. However I only order from those I have used for many years and I have never had any issues with any of them.

Yes - anything that brings you into contact with people is a risk. A takeaway isn't an especially high risk, but it's an additional risk. Personally I am keeping my contact with others at an absolute minimum, so anything unnecessary such as a takeaway I am avoiding. Yes, I have to eat but takeaways increase the meals-per-interaction ratio, compared with a supermarket trip providing all meals for the week.

@SomewhatBored

Yes - anything that brings you into contact with people is a risk. A takeaway isn't an especially high risk, but it's an additional risk. Personally I am keeping my contact with others at an absolute minimum, so anything unnecessary such as a takeaway I am avoiding. Yes, I have to eat but takeaways increase the meals-per-interaction ratio, compared with a supermarket trip providing all meals for the week.

I imagine you are more than 'somewhat' bored...

She’s mental - takeaways are the only things keeping me going at the minute! I’d rather get covid than give up takeaways!

I don't consider it a risk. We use Deliveroo. They drop off on the doorstep and we pick up and wash our hands. It's no less safe than collecting food at a supermarket that could have been handled by dozens of shoppers before ending up in your trolley

I imagine you are more than 'somewhat' bored...

Sadly, yes, but I'd rather be bored at home than on a ventilator in hospital.

Nope. From day 1 we've had a weekly one.
Everyone has been contactless and from about 8 diff places. Chain places and independent

@TableFlowerss - with you. Tell myself I need to support local restaurants and can easily convince myself two a week is totally fine

Delivered to your door far less than standing in queues to collect. Not as risky as going food shopping. Especially at the moment!

Might be the best question yet.

OP it’s no different to shopping or receiving online shopping.

I used to and didn’t have any in the first lockdown. I would also wipe all my shopping etc ... and leave Amazon boxes in the garage for a few days.
I don’t do any of that now. And we had takeaway last weekend and will have one next weekend for DC birthday.
However, I will take food out of the boxes and throw them away and wash hands after handling the boxes etc .. and actually, I should probably be more cautious with post / shopping again based on the new infection rates (and my fears last time round).
On a side note though - after having said takeaway at the weekend, and only ever been to 1 shop in that week, I’ve been feeling rotten since Sunday. I’ve had a test via the Zoe app ... awaiting results. So watch this space ....!

No it’s only the same as the super market. I still get them and to be honest only thing I look forward to at the minute.

@Frombeantocupyoufup

I didn’t think it would a risk but friend was saying what if the person making your food unknowingly has the virus, what if they’re not that clean or good at following practises etc.

It’s a little treat for us and now I’m stupidly doubting it as we have been so careful it’s made me feel like I’m doing something reckless! Which I know I’m not realistically

The amount of people who don’t seem to realise food hygiene (or lack thereof) has always been a thing is hilarious. If she thinks her local takeaways are dodgy, worse horrors than Covid can easily ensue.

No I don’t think it’s risky. I only eat them from places I trust, and not very often.

no and i dont reheat or zap it in the microwave either

Depends on what the takeaway place is like if you are collecting. If it's crowded with coughing people or everyone touching everything, yes. If you are getting it delivered, it depends who touched/coughed on/whatever the packaging.

Yes, since March we have stopped having takeaways/restaurant meals and tbh the very idea of eating one makes me feel nauseous. We don't go to the supermarket either, if I can't get a delivery slot we go without or go to corner shops at unpopular time of day. We don't really leave the house except I have started daily half-hour walks to improve my health.

It's not that I think the chance of getting Covid is greater, but I do think my DH's chance of surviving an attack is very low. He is ill and frail, still recovering from stents being put in about a year ago.