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LinkPizza posted...

But not everyone cares about the handling of there food bags since there are people handling the actual food. I'd be more worried about that. Also, if you're going out to get food, you could easily take precaution to get gloves before going there if you think there will be an issue... Even snow gloves or something...

The person preparing the food doesn't come in contact with hundreds of customers. If that dude/dudette is sick, pretty much everyone is screwed, and sadly, if the person handing out the food gets sick, that pretty much means the person making the food will as well eventually. They should at least be wearing gloves though, which might help prevent some people from getting it.

Do your stores not do that already? Most places I've gone to (even before the virus) had different people put the order together and give it to the customer...

The stores have one person make the food, and then another take all the individual ingrediants and put it into bags (fries/burgers etc). That person then takes those bags and hands it to the customer. I propose you have 3 people instead of 2. One makes the food, one prepares it and places it into bags, and the final one is the one who takes cash from people, but she/he also takes those bags (with protection so she doesn't actually touch them (IE in a basket etc) and hands them to the customer. This prevents any cross contamination from customers (at no point are you touching something, that other customers have touched (or that the person who is in contact with many customers has touched).

And yeah, I'm not going to fast food again, I did microwave my food before eating it, which should have killed any virus on the food, but ii's not worth the risk. Still most people are being told it's safe to have delivery or go to fast food etc, but the reality is, just 1 person going to such a place and paying with cash, could infect the person handing out the food right now. That person would be in close proximity all day with the cook/person making the food, and BAM before you know it, everyone who eats there could get infected.

Gloves can help, and of course if they show symptoms they probably would stop workign there, but I mean, it's an easy way to quickly spread the virus tbh, and there are simple/easy precautions to avoid it.

It should be noted that you usually have 3 people (at least) at a fast food place, one is dealing with dine in customers, and often you have another who is clearing tables etc, so having 3 people instead of 2, would not be an extra cost, and it would speed up service for the people in line (so you would end up making more of a profit over all that way. You would also ensure the maximum safety of your customers and your employees (as long as the person dealing with the customers wore gloves/a mask, and didn't give out non-bill change (you can use a basket and tongs to hand out cash and recieve it, touching none of it with your gloves directly. Just put a sign up that change will be rounded to the nearest dollar or ignored if it's less than a dollar, if your not ok with that, don't eat there.

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