An effective gloving or not
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
When I was in medical school, a microbiologist pointed out that the dirtiest part of a public toilet would be the door knob or door handle with the reason that the cleaner would clean commode and toilet floor in a particular time interval. But nobody would not bother to clean door knob that all toilet users need to touch it after their business. He claimed that million of germs could transmit from that source.
Based on above knowledge, I may be obsessed, I sometime see currency notes, which may have passed in the hands of hundreds of people before it comes to my pocket, as a kind of toilet door knob from the health point of view. I really don't know if there are harmful germs on £5 and £10 notes. But I believe that food handlers should not touch currency note while foods are being prepared.
I like Subway sandwich for many reasons. It is fresh. I can choose the type of bread and ingredients. I can order to toast it or not. I can select the salads and sauces (Mustard is my fav). It is also a good practice that food handlers are instructed to put gloves on while working.
Unfortunately, I came across a shop somewhere in Britain, which has been in sub-standard, in terms of hygiene although sale persons were on gloves.
When I got there, there were two sale persons in that Subway shop. I ordered BMT with Hearty Italian bread. The first person's job was cutting the bread and putting the meats inside, before toasting with cheese. After that, the second person put salads, which were cucumber, pepper, onion, iceberg as I chose, finishing by spreading with sauce. Then, it was packed. What was next!
The next step was that the sale assistant took the money with his semi-wet gloved hand, operating the machine and returning the change. When I got out of the shop, he had been dealing with next customers, repeating the same steps.
Any comment welcome.
If someone wants to know the actual place of this branch, I would be happy to tell for the sake of Subway customers. Just drop a comment.
finishing sandwich making
Holding the machine with food preparing hands, concentrating on digits
I was taking the change
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မထူးပါဘူးဟယ္ လက္အိပ္စြပ္ထားလဲ သူ႔ဟာက ဘာထူးမွာလဲ ဘာမွမထူးဘူး ပိုက္ဆံထဲက ပုိးမႊားေတြက သူ႔လက္အိပ္ထဲေရာက္ သူက ေနာက္ လူကို ထပ္လုပ္ေပး အမငီးးးးးး ေတြးရင္း ေတာင္ ဆက္မေျပာခ်င္ေတာ႕ဘူး ဖတ္သြားတယ္ေနာ္ မန္႕ထားတာေတြနဲ႕ ဟုတ္လားမသိဘူး မဟုတ္ရင္လဲ မတတ္ႏုိင္ဘူးေရာ ဟြင္းးးး ကလံု ကလံု နဲ႕ သူပဲ သနားစရာ ဝံေလး လာလုပ္ေနျပီး နာေတာ႕မယ္ စဒိ တေယာက္ေတာ႔ ဟြင္းးးးး ဘုိင္တာ႔ တာ
” ေဝါ့ !! ”
Here in most Subway branch I used to buy,there are at least 3 persons .
2 persons are for food preparing, order taking and the other one is to deal with customers .
အဲဒါ လက္အိပ္သံုးရတဲ့ ရည္႐ြယ္ခ်က္ကို သူမသိလုိ႔ေပါ့။
သူ႔လက္မေပေအာင္ စြတ္ထားရတယ္လို႔မ်ား ထင္ေနလားမွ မသိတာ။
တကယ္ေတာ့ ဟိုေခ်ာင္က်က် ႐ြာကလူေတြကို က်န္းမာေရး ပညာေပးဖို႔ ခက္ခဲတာ ဘာမွ မထူးဆန္းဘူး။
Right, Ma Khin Oo May, it should not happen.
Yes ဝက္ဝံေလး , sounds like he has been spreading germs.
Vista, in bigger shops in Cambridge and London, as far as I remember, cashier is a separate person.
In fact, he needs to change the gloves after serving one customer. Those plastic gloves are really cheap. He never did. The same setting when I went there 1 month ago. The worse thing was that time, his one glove was torn and his thumb came out. He did not bother to change with new one. Maybe shop owner wants a restriction of glove use :)
Basically, these Subway shop are under the franchise license. Probably, Subway main office might not have a detail instruction for some health issues, like how to use glove properly.
You are right Rita, health education is sometime difficult to penetrate in public.
I do think it is common for everywhere.
Because you are Burmese originally and a doctor. That's why you like hygiene.
Yes of course. From medical point of view, wearing glove is for hygiene. From sales person point of view, wearing glove is for preventing their hands from dirtiness. :-)
All European eat food, vegetable, fruit, everything from the packing /shelf without washing. They say this is Organic....!
You can see at the checkout point, some customers even bite money/bank card in their mouth while their hands are busy trying to open/taking bags. They always say this is Organic.
It is not only in Britain. but also in everywhere.
If you prefer clean one, you should make your own sandwich/food. Almost everywhere is DIRTY.
At the end, try to follow your English way as...
..
"THIS IS ORGANIC".....
:-D
Enjoy
well, it's common in everywhere though they shouldn't be careless as a food industry.
You should report to head office together with this photos, this is unforgivable.
It will be more hygienic if you don't touch money notes before you have your meal.
It'd be the best if subway accepts electronic money.
I've been to two subway shops in two different cities here. Normally, only one person mends the shop. What he or she does is that put the gloves on for sandwich prep and take them off and throw them in the trash before accepting cash or cards. For next order, they got fresh new gloves.
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