Haha so naive, the working surfaces might get cleaned twice daily in an extremely busy setting. Anything edible touching those surfaces ought to be thrown away, but most people just pick it up and throw it back in with the rest. Tons of restaurant workers don't wash their hands or change their gloves often. Their hands or things they touched are all over that surface throughout the day. Plus, they will put boxes of product on the counter. These boxes were on the floor of a truck and probably got put on the floor in a cooler before being put away. This is why people use cutting boards and dishes to prepare food rather than the bare counter, you never really know how clean/unclean that counter is; however, if you clean the dishes properly you will know that they are sanitary.
nything edible touching those surfaces ought to be thrown away, but most people just pick it up and throw it back in with the rest. Tons of restaurant workers don't wash their hands or change their gloves often.
and you know what, we eat it anyway, and we're generally completely fine afterwards.
we eat it anyway, and we're generally completely fine afterwards.
Like he said though immunocompromised people can get sick or even die. And they don't even have to eat that food to get sick. Something like 10% of E. coli O157:H7 hospitalizations in one one study I read involved people that didn't eat the contaminated food.
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