OMG! No gloves!

I SWEAR TO YOU, THAT STORE #16847 IN HOMESTAED,FL DOES THE SAME THING,
I SPOKE TO THE MANAGER AND HE TOLD ME THAT TAKES UP TO MUCH TIME AND
MONEY FOR THEM TO WEAR GLOVES. PEOPLE! PLEASE STOP EATING AT BURGER
KING. THOSE SAME BARE FINGERS THAT ARE USED TO MAKE YOUR FOOD HAS
PICKED A NOSE, AN AS@HOLE, TEETH AND THE LIST GOES ON. IF THE
COMPANY'S DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR HEALTH, THEN WHY SHOULD YOU CARE
ABOUT THERE BILLS.

Maybe it varies from state to state, but here, handling raw meat
requires gloves,not the actual sandwich making. However, tongs and
scoops are used. We have to wash our hands every hour. To be quite
honest, it would be more sanitary to use clean hands than gloves.
Think about it.

Touch something. Wash your hands. Clean.

Touch stuff with gloves. It stays on there.

We also have strict rules about who makes the food. If you are a cash
handler, you stay away from the grill area.

As long as peopl ehave clean hands, I'm ok. I haven't gotten sick from
food handled by clean hands.

vegtables and food that doesn't get cooked does require gloves by law
you are right BUT Uncooked meats that are to be cooked can lawfully
and safely be handled by bare hands I am a certified food handler and
there is nothing wrong with handling raw meat with your bare hands as
long as you wash yours hands thoroughly before moving on to other
tasks.

i live in springfield, missouri and i have witnessed this at my local
burger king as well. the cook was making my hamburger barehanded. i
noticed just as i was getting ready to pay the cashier. i said,
"never mind, your cook is making my burger and not wearing gloves."
it was the last time i darkened burger king's drive through. good
luck.

Watch an employee at Starbucks when they make your iced drink. About
25% of the time, when they pull the cup off the stack, they flip it
over and put their fingers in it to hold the cup while they write on
the outside of the cup. Everytime this happens, I ask for a new cup
and they always apologize. It's usually the younger workers who are
new.

OMG is right! This must explain why I have thrown up twice right after
eating at Burger King. Interesting...

While I know you didn't say anything about money handlers.The highest
concentration of feces and drug residue is found on money so I always
watch to make sure the people handling the register aren't touching
the food.

If that isn't a law,it should be!

Or maybe they're just individuals who lack a command of English, and
who can't understand sanitary instructions.

As a restaurant worker in the state of Michigan, we are required to
use a "sheild" when handling prepared, RTE food. (Ready to eat:
requiring no further preparation beofre consumption). The sheild means
that the food cannot be touched with bare hands, and it could be
gloves, a bakery tissue, just something sanitary.

Im not sure about this policy in Florida, but based upon what you are
seeing, imagine what happens when you aren't looking- such as at
restaurants where you cannot see the kitchen. As a waiter, I can tell
you that almost nobody uses gloves. And you're fine.

I have had this same experiance, i own a shop beside a burger king in
north carolina and the same thing happened to me, i wrote to the
company in florida and they said that it was not mandantory for the
employees to wear gloves that they enforce washing of the hands and
using hand sanitizer.

I am assuming you are on the younger side of life, as witnessed by
your use of "OMG" and "WTF". They do not belong in a business letter.

Did anyone ever watch the movie "Waiting" ? Gloves should be the
least of his worries. LOL I used to waitress and let me tell
you....well maybe I shouldn't! :o) yikes

We would be better off blind when we eat out! (Not really of course,
but at least we would not see what the preparers are doing)

This reminds me of a Subway visit a few months ago.

The person making the sandwich does so immediately after taking cash
from another customer (without washing her hands).

The customer having his sandwich made insisted she remove the tomatoes
from the sandwich she just made. He told her he was not going to eat
something she touched with her dirty hands.

She does just this putting them back into the container with all the
other ones.

So when someone uses their DIRTY hands to pick up, fondle, and pull on
a pair of gloves, this is better? I think not.

I wonder how many drive thru's you actually go through? You may be
happy to know that there aren't many restaurants nowadays that use
gloves. Actually, gloves are dirtier than dirty hands. I would rather
see someone using clean hands than gloves. Matter of fact I have seen
some nasty things done with gloves and I have refused to eat there.

OMG, WTF? IDK.

English, please!

I wasn't aware it was a law that restaurant employees had to wear
gloves. But what difference would it make? Any germs that bare skin
could come into contact with could be on the gloves too :)

Gloves provide a false sense of security. Anything that can get on
bare hands (germs) can get on gloves as well.

Gloves seem to give people a false sense of security.

If I itch my butt it's the same thing with our without gloves. Butt
germs still get on the gloves. You can do all the same things with
gloves as without gloves like pick your nose, wipe snot, touch money,
et cetera.

I assume when the employee said Burger King Law, they were referring
to Burger King Policy, which as Red points out below, BK has the right
to establish (gloves OR no gloves).

So, it sounds like the employee was completely correct, which means
the opposite for the OP.

Personally, I never look to see what the food handlers are doing - I
don't want to know. Despite regulations and procedures, I'm sure a
lot goes on that would shock the customer. And I mean in most any
establishment, not just BK.

I hope the OP doesn't misinform too many of his/her friends.

You are wrong on two major points.

First, gloves are NOT required by the state of Florida. They are a
choice made by restaurants. In fact, many restaurants actually are
doing away with gloves because of mounting medical research that
proves frequent and appropriate hand washing is far more effective
than gloves.

Second, no, "all managers" do not have to be a certified food handler
in Florida. The only required is that each restaurant have one on
staff. They don't have to be present at the restaurant at all times.


In addition, I wouldn't put much stock in this certification. You can
get this certification just from paying $20 to one of a variety of
websites and taking an online course... with NO exam. In fact, it's
against the law for a website or restaurant to test its employees:
The certification itself is all the state requires.

Would you like to try again?