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McDonald’s workers roast Trump over ‘insulting cosplay’ stunt at restaurant that failed health inspection (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Trump sported neither gloves not a hair net as he worked at a branch of the fast food chain in Pennsylvania

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Earlier this year, this location didn't meet the compliance requirements of the Bucks County Health Department. A health inspection in March at the Feasterville-Trevose location resulted in four violations, including citing employees not having their "hands clean & properly washed."

"Food employees are not washing their hands as required before putting on gloves, after handling soiled tableware, after handling raw meat, before handling clean tableware, equipment, utensils. CFSM must review hand washing requirements with staff. Observed employees handling raw beef with gloves and then switching gloves without hand washing step in-between," the health inspector wrote.

The report also noted a lack of hairnets: "Food workers are not wearing hair restraints as required, which includes management that assists in packaging and preparing food. Employees shall wear hair restraints such as hats, hair coverings or nets, that are effectively designed and worn to keep their hair from contacting exposed food; clean equipment, utensils and linens; and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles."

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Thing is, wearing gloves in the first place is part of the issue, it gives a false sense of cleanliness and makes people not wash their hands as often as they should.

Edit: Downvote all you want, I've got my training in hygiene and sanitary practices in a kitchen environment, you wear gloves, you don't feel that your hands are dirty, you don't clean them as often. Gloves should be worn when you hurt your hands, that's it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Used to work in fast food.

What you’re supposed to do is wash hands, new gloves, and when you need to change your gloves again (they even have a handy little poster that reminds you when!), you wash hands, put new gloves on.

It’s.. really not that hard?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Posters are pretty much useless if you don't feel that your hands are dirty

My training is the one you get to work in a kitchen environment like a hospital.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t that why you have training, and a manager to ensure proper steps are being taken?

My manager took her job seriously, and if she came around and noticed you:

A) weren’t wearing gloves B) weren’t keeping to the guidelines by changing gloves at the allotted time C) ESPECIALLY not washing your hands

You’d get a verbal warning, write up for subsequent violations, and then fired for not being able to properly follow these simple guidelines.

I don’t want your bare hands touching my food. Period.

A hospital should be even more strict about these simple guidelines. Seeing you so vehemently against something as simple as gloves on top of washing your hands, makes me so glad I cook at home. Keep on, I guess. Who cares anymore, am I right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand how you don't get it...

Gloves aren't a sign of cleanliness or hygiene and people using their clean hands is much better than people wearing gloves and not cleaning often enough because they don't realize their gloves are dirty. It's that simple. It's even you see cooks wearing gloves that you should be worried.

weren’t keeping to the guidelines by changing gloves at the allotted time

See, from the get go that makes zero sense! Cleaning isn't based on time, it's based on what you manipulated!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why you are having such a hard time grasping such a simple thing as guidelines.

A guideline, in this case, is something to follow, which all employees should do, to prevent any unnecessary contamination. Gloves are an extra precaution, on top of washing your hands properly, that minimizes the risk of contaminating the very food that someone else is going to be putting into their body.

Gloves in a FOOD environment, alongside hair nets, are just a no brainer for someone that will be serving food to another human being. On the daily, I see motherfuckers who can't even be bothered to wash their hands after using the restroom, and you expect me to see someone cooking food without gloves on, and continue to eat that shit???

The allotted time is for when you haven't gotten your gloves dirty, or at the very least not contaminated with other food stuffs. That means that if you get your gloves covered in the food you are prepping, you go and wash your hands and put on a new pair of gloves. Simple as hell, and promotes a healthy cooking environment. There are literally no downsides, just the ones you make up in your head.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Guidelines vary depending on where you live, around here is no gloves and there's a very good justification for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I provided you a lot of reasons why gloves should be worn, and all you can say is this. Poor way to justify your shitty practices. Keep on serving your contaminated food then, you improperly trained fool.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I really hope you're not still in a kitchen.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I feel so bad for those hospital patients, and the staff, that have to eat whatever germ ridden food this person is handling.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it gives a false sense of cleanliness and makes people not wash their hands as often as they should.

To expand in that. If someone wears gloves and touches e.g. raw chicken and then something else it'll contaminate it and anything they'll touch afterwards.

People asking for gloves are usually misguided. As said, due to gloves they'll not charge gloves or wash when needed. And that's pretty often.

Strangely there's some huge craziness where there's loads of comments that ask for gloves and think it'll improve hygiene. While to me gloves indicate a poor hygiene understanding.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

You wear different gloves so there is no cross contamination.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Good for the workers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

When I worked at McDonald’s pretty much everyone wore hats but I will admit I didn’t always wash hands in between gloves with how dry it often made them. I will say that from the article that hat the guy is wearing is a genuine joke and he definitely should be covering that inch long beard

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Observed employees handling raw beef with gloves and then switching gloves without hand washing step in-between,"

I've worked in MacDonald and this one is bullshit. Every time you use the grill you handle raw, frozen, patties with the glove. Of you were you wash the hands every time your skin would fall of after one day.

Also, the point of the glove is to not contaminate the hand. What's the need for washing between uses?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

you might touch the outside of the glove with your hand while don/doffing it, so the washing between glove changes is to prevent cross contamination.

Or, if the gloves break.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Nobody believes that trump is capable of working a shift at mcdonalds. This was just a reaction to Kamala mentioning mcdonalds once, and trump the dancing monkey leaps at the bait like a fool. She is playing him like a cheap fiddle.

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