What Would You Do If A Sick Restaurant Employee Was Handling Your Food?
Yesterday, I went to lunch at a local restaurant which I won't name. I ordered my food and went to sit down and wait for it. My fiance, Dave, noticed that the cook was talking on his cell phone while he was handling meat with his bare hands. How unsanitary!!
Now, if you pay attention to the news at all, you'd know that cell phones arguably contain more bacteria than toilet seats. That's nasty in itself. But the gross factor didn't stop there, things got a lot worse.
There was a woman working the cash register that kept coughing and sneezing. My fiance noticed that she was whipping her nose with her hand, and whipping her hand on her shirt. We were so grossed out. We realized she had touched our credit cards, the bag our food was about to go in, the forks we were about to eat off of, the napkins we were going to use and who knows what else.
Dave wanted to leave, but we had already paid for our food. We ended up bringing our food back to work, grabbed new plastic forks. that hadn't been touched by the cashier, and ate the food anyway because we were starving. Plus, our food wasn't cheap. I thought it would be too awkward to say something--plus, the cashier was already feeling bad.
We talked to our co-workers in the break room about what had happened to us, and they told us they would have left or said something to the manager. Do you think Dave and I made the right choice by not saying anything and eating the food anyway?