Sanitary

So... I was at work today, as I am every Sunday, enjoying my 5-12 shift at Dunkin Donuts. I've been there three years, so I'm pretty much an expert when it comes to serving costomers their coffee and donuts, occasionally a bagel or sandwich, too. There was a new kid on the job today, and as he was filling the ice bin that holds a crap ton of ice for ice coffee, he started to use his hands to level out the top layer. I started cracking up, because of course you can't pet the ice with your hands! I mean I would like to think we all wash our hands after any dirty task, and I'm sure he wasn't wiping sickening bacteria on the ice, but still. It's like grabbing the donuts with your hand and handing it to a costomer. We take such precautions to NOT touch people's food. It made me think about why Americans trust the fast food industry so much. Now.. not to brag or anything... but our manager has done a really good job with the store and taking control or a store of teenagers and we all learn to keep things sanitary and wear gloves and wash hands... you get it.. but I highly doubt every store is like that.. there's plenty of times im sure it's tempting to pick up something without a glove. What about McDonalds, burger king, wendys? all those healthy food places ya know? There's always teenagers working these places, a lot who are there making minimum wage not giving a crap about who they're handing things out too, so picking a dropped burger bun off the ground might not mean a thing, jsut another whopper out the drive thru window. So why do Americans trust all these teenagers so much?
Maybe we're all just too lazy to make our own food and coffee that concern about what's REALLY touching our food, let alone what's IN the food (the usual argument), goes out the window.
This argument might be incredibly stupid but I have been deep in thought about it.
hmmm.

-rae