What Are They Thinking!?!

I am pretty observant about the circumstances of the food that I'm eating; who prepared it, where it was prepared, are hands washed....you get the idea. I work part-time as a manager in a food establishment and I am always watching my fellow employees and making sure that things are done correctly, and the fact that I recently took the food handlers test has made me even more observant and insistent that things are done right.

Last week while traveling to St. George I stopped at a well known fast food restaurant in Beaver. I watched the workers preparing the food, running the register, and so forth....after eating I went to order a shake for Caitlin, when the young man brought it to me I noticed some foreign-orange-miniscule-object on the rim of the cup. When I pointed it out to him he dumped it out and started again, at which point I took the opportunity to kindly ask him why none of the emplyees were wearing gloves, much to the mortification of Caitlin, Chris, and Chelsea who were sitting at a table nearby. I thought it was a reasonable question?

I was eating at a popular restaurant one day when I saw an employee (from the kitchen) enter the restroom wearing an apron. A few minutes later the employee emerged from the restroom still wearing the apron and went back to the kitchen. Employees aren't supposed to wear their aprons in the restroom.

Friday morning I was shopping at my local grocery store. I went to the butcher block to purchase a rump roast. I love purchasing meat from the butcher block, I feel like I'm in Mayberry or in Sam's Butcher Shop on the "Brady Bunch". The butcher was weighing out the meat (no gloves) and talking to me, suddenly he took his baseball cap off of his head and rubbed his hand vigorously back and forth several times over his crew cut and then put his cap back on. I was shocked. If he's going to do that right in front of a customer, what's he doing when we can't see him? Fortunately he had already put plastic on my roast and he used the other hand to wrap the white paper around it. I ask you, what's a girl to do? I mean do you suggest to a butcher (who has tons of big knives) that he should not rub his head and wrap meat at the same time? Do any of you have any eating out/grocery store horror stories?