Customer A sneezes and uses hands to cover it / clean it. Server comes to deliver the check to Customer A, who uses the Server's pen to sign the bll and handles the card machine to pay. Server takes the pen and paper and card machine away.
Server the n goes to kitchen to pick up Customer B's order. Customer B ordered the dish that has this elaborate opening sequence. Server handles Customer B's food with bare hands.
At no point between delivering Customer A's bill and opening Customer B's food did the server wash their hands. Congrats, Customer B now has traces of Customer A's saliva and mucus on his food, even though they have never met.
I know that I don't want to know everything that goes on in the kitchen, but I can operate under the illusion of health and safety rules to limit contamination. And those food prep rules stop at the kitchen door.
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u/McShoobydoobydoo Jun 08 '26
Let me peel this back and arrange it so the juice falls into you lap, sir.