On 2006-10-26, merryb > wrote:

> Just because people have to have a food handler's card to work in a
> restaurant doesn't mean that they apply what they are suppossed to know
> when working...stuff gets left out a lot longer than it should...using
> filthy towels as potholders, dirty fridges, stuff not being properly
> rotated, sinks being used as salad bowls after being used to defrost
> chicken, etc. Believe me, I've seen it, and it happens more than you
> think (or want to know).

You are dead on, MerryB. I've endured a lot of corporate cafeterias
over the years and I've suffered the results of poor sanitation
practices in a couple. These were large companies with multiple
campuses and I got to see the results of different cafeterias at
different times under different sub-contractors and staff. At one,
things became so bad I could no longer eat there, constant intestinal
stress the results. When that company finally dumped that particular
vendor/staff, things turned around for the better immediately. I was
always friendly with the different vendor staffs and became friendly
with one of low level droids that survived the purge of this
particular cafeteria. He told me the horror stories of the previous
regime's sanitation practices. The correlation between their tenure and
my grief was endeniable.

nb