Goomba38 wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> I don't understand this. Ice in a restaurant is is made by a
>> machine. Ice is place into glasses via an ice scoop. While I
>> certainly believe too many people don't wash their hands, I
>> sincerely doubt they are grabbing ice with their bare hands to fill
>> glasses.
>
> At my hospital we have a McDonald's (yeah, I know...) and I've watched
> them load ice into the beverage dispenser by the bucket load. Some
> young guy climbs up and dumps huge buckets of it into the top of the
> dispenser.

(Sorry I didn't notice this was cross-posted to begin with.) Anyway, I
guess I wasn't thinking about restaurants with beverage dispensers. I never
worked in a restaurant that required ice to be poured into such a
contraption. But then, I've never worked at McDonald's.

As for the comment from someone on the other ng about ice machines can be
dirty, that's true. But the establishments where I worked completely
drained the ice machines and scrubbed them out at least once a month.
They'd alternate cleaning the machines in order to ensure there was plenty
of ice when the restaurant opened the next day.

Jill