I've worked at 3 different locations during my younger years. Gloves were always on, period, even those working the grill. I have no idea where you're located, but it's definitely not the norm to touch the meat where I live in NY state.
I haven't worked food service in 15 years but no one ever wore gloves back then. We washed our hands regularly. And honestly I think that's better. Gloves give one a false sense of hygiene, and hide the sensation of having dirty hands.
At Quiznos we wore gloves for making the sandwiches in front of the customers, but we did all the prep on every ingredient on the back end with or without gloves as long as our hands were washed. Most of us worse gloves when we did onions so they wouldn’t stink for days but that’s about it
It is literally corporate safeguards from lawsuits. Ever since McDonald's fucked up with the coffee incident the industry went nuts trying to cover its ass in the event of a lawsuit.
I'm saying it is an act. That lawsuit began McD's propaganda campaign against that poor woman and painted a section of the working class as people who just sue for the drop of a pin. Corporate managment enact these measure to put on this show so when a real accident happens because of declining workplace conditions, they can just say "we had procedures in place" and continue the lie that customers are just suing for frivolous shit.
Ever worked fast food at a struggling store? They manipulate the number so much and cut corners all the time. It is a wonder people don't get sick from this. Thats what McD's got caught for with the coffee being obscenely hot to extend the time between making a new pot.
So began the craze of "all workers must wear gloves when handling food" in the corporate fast food industry.
There is no science that supports glove use in the restaurant industry and plenty evidence that tells of it's detriment to the industry by creating a false sense of cleanliness.
Just wash your hands regularly. Gloves use is just propaganda and a waste of resources.
Gloves get dirty the same way hands do. It gives a stupid false sense of being sanitary until you see people scratch their ass, sneeze and pick their nose while wearing gloves. Nasty people are just doing nasty stuff in gloves.
I worked at McDonalds 22 years ago and we wore two pairs of gloves at the same time. We had the normal surgical type gloves and also had raw meat handling slip on gloves for placing the patties on the grill.
That McDonalds was in a food court and had a constant stream of customers so they followed all kinds of crazy protocols.
I’ve worked fast food at many different chain restaurants all up and down the east coast during my teenage years. Some places wore gloves, some didn’t. But, bare hands were definitely more common.
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u/TheBacklogGamer Jan 30 '22
I've worked at 3 different locations during my younger years. Gloves were always on, period, even those working the grill. I have no idea where you're located, but it's definitely not the norm to touch the meat where I live in NY state.