There are a LOT of minimum wage workers in restaurants too. You say “chef” and it conjures images of some fancy restaurant. But why is a fancy chef more able to wash his hands than a fast food employee? It’s not a high art.
I think expecting every food worker to wear gloves is silly and unnecessary. And assuming it’s just checking out when they don’t wear gloves… wow that’s just crazy talk IMO. Have you ever worked food service?
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Minimum wage workers doing mind numbing factory work also do dumb shit wearing gloves like scratch their face or tie their shoes, regularly.
Source: was a floor manager during covid.
dan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah but… remove your gloves before leaving shop floor, put on gloves when entering shop floor is much easier to enforce than “did you wash your hands” - you can catch them blue handed (or not blue handed, as the case may be).
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If they glove up then scratch their face, those gloves are now contaminated.
Gloves are only good practice if you can lay in all the surrounding good practices and if you can do that then you can probably sort out good hand washing practice and the real world difference outside of a clean room or surgical theater is pretty much negligible.
dan@lemm.ee 1 year ago
But if you don’t glove up and scratch your face, your fingers are contaminated too.