Yuck, Yuck, Yuck!

You know what...rather this dude was wearing food handler's gloves or not the result would of been the same...Yuck!   So it's an matter of the person...and why you have to be careful whom you hire. Our food

handlers had to wear gloves making the food..sandwhiches in this case, but my being an cashier, I didn't have to...put down under my feet was an bucket with an cloth and disinfectant, and it was part of my job when when I wasn't ringing up the cash regiser to be wiping down counters, and tables....guys closed every night went over the whole resturant with disinfectant, from machines to floors anyway, so healthwise it was pretty good. We had window washing going on next after the tables were cleaned. but I contribute the laziness of the employees for seeing it go down the tube. You had your good ones and your bad ones.Teh bad ones didn't care if they filled an order correctly...they were seen every spare minute they had off in an corner chatting iwth the others, not stocking things....and there wasan lot of back biting going on for the fact they had this thing about "team work" going on. I use to watch them cashier and they would of been fired for thier sloppiness with their credit card receipts...but since then they have taken that out of thei hands in the entire industry pretty mucn. Something the place greatly needed was an organized chart of command...because if the manager left for some reason and an problem came up no one knew who should take car e of it. I found th emajoprity of the older employees really not wanting to train anyone under them correctly also..I was there two weeks before I found supplies in an closet... no one had me told was there..It seemed if any of the employees were unhappy they took it out in the bathrooms and blamed the coustomers. They were pretty rude to some of the people I knew there that came in...just because I did know them I suppose( they didnt' like "older people" because they were slower then most or else needed more help)...extremely jealous of anyone else's persona rather then seeing it was "good business" to welcome people you knew. so it was the best running operation was the manager that brought in his own selected and trained help. I could of learned much more then I did from people more knowledgable, but I didn't becuase they seemed to think I could do it all by myself. I would ask questions and maybe soem days later out they would come with an piece of paper for instructions...but you can't beat those first few days of an really good trainer. I found some of the managers as inadpt as I did the employees also. But when I was hired...I was told then that there were problems in upper managment goin gon and it would be surprising to see it's operation going some years down the line. The problem was..the restruant was founded by people that wanted an small area " come in and sit down to eat type restruant"...then someone introduced the "fast food" window. Some of them didn't want the dining room setting...they felt more money was to be made at the fast food window. But the fast food approach also knocks out that "fmaily atmosphere" We use to give an Apple pie for free with an Thanksgiving order...the pies came in the day of delivery "moldy". Our hispanic cook couldn't help us on the food table line serve until we could get more help in to replace her because she couldn't read English...and could barely understand it. She really in her own way "set" th eprofit of th eplace by how much she cooked to be sold.  Anyway, the place spit up with one half it closing as an nation wide change. I thought the food was good...and it sold itself. Prices were kind of iffy...but affordable. Our colors were red and black...I wanted them at the end of the service bar put in an small artificial Christmas tree...with white lights, red ornament plastic balls and snowflakes in sparkling black...I was willing to help them with it also. I suggested the idea and was told no...it would be discriminating to an Atheist to put up an tree...or some that have an particular religion possibly. I thought that was about as stupid as could be....and not having it detracted from the "family atmosphere"of the place. Liked that better then the painted windows that no one could wash. But anyway..I went there to learn restruants...but I tell you watching your Robert Irwin that's come over with his show "Restruant Impossible"..he's already taught me quite an bit on TV. ..and you know the owners whom doubt him, in some ways dispise all he says...he leaves it all with them in " tears" in their eyes for how he's up-graded their restruants in the end. Many years ago...I could not afford an very bif TV set...so it was I asked the salesman..what I could do...he said...do like we do...set if up at eye level..the screen looks bigger and you can buy an smaller tv. I did that...but look now..they are all pretty much at that level now. "Marketing" your product you just bought... can also enhance your own life also. There are many ways to do something, but they all include what is simple, clean and efficient. The home should be an inviting comfortable place and one that is not "trashed" simply because you forgot to grow up, or expect someone else to come along an "pick up" for you.  As to this person...he simply needed replaced as an employee doiing this particular job. BTW...my doctor, whom I've as yet found one as good as he was...explained to me one time, that colored mucus discharge is green or yellow from "infection" and an virus" is ususally clear. There are several ways to spread germs, sneezing, coughing, and not washing your hands properly...and lasly not being clean in general. so when you put that snotty napkin on the table while you ate, you undertsood why I came along an washed it after you left with an cloth full of disinfectant water.

What will you have? asked the waiter,

pensively picking his nose.

Two boiled eggs you b********,

you can't get you fingers in those! 

You have a knack for painting a very clear picture in your descriptions, Ron, so you're right, yuck, yuck, yuck.

When I first saw the name of the thread, I thought yuck, yuck yuck was sort of a chuckle, like Curly in the 3 Stooges used to do.  lol

And you're right, Syd.  Our local newscast has a weekly "Dirty Dining Report" where they broadcast (good and bad) the latest restaurant health inspections, conducted randomly by our county govt.  Some of the stuff makes you wonder why we don't hear of people dropping dead or something.  But I heard another old saying, I think it was on Fawlty Towers or something, "the quality of the food is inversely proportional to the cleanliness of the kitchen."  Scary thought.....