Have You Seen How Fast Food Workers Prepare Your Burgers?
By julito
@antonbunot (11093)
Calgary, Alberta
April 2, 2016 2:11pm CST
My wife and I do not eat in Fast Food restaurants very often. If we have to, we go to A&W. Why?
Have you ever noticed how kitchen people in your favorite fast food restaurants prepare/cook your burgers? All of them use gloves. Of course, the reason why they put on sanitary gloves is to keep your burgers clean and germ-free. Wonderful!
One day I was watching two young fast food workers in one of the leading fast food restaurants preparing burgers and other fast foods while waiting for my order. O, they worked fast and they TOUCHED everything in the kitchen aside from the foods they were preparing!
How clean are the burgers we eat?!
Disclaimer: I am not advertising fast food restaurant A&W.
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
2 Apr 16
@story07 What is the point of wearing gloves when they still touch and hold everything in the kitchen?!
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
3 Apr 16
@antonbunot How about when the server prepares the food with the gloves on and then handle the cash and goes back to prepare more foods with the same gloves?
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@MakeMyDollar (129)
• United States
3 Apr 16
This comment is true, you must wear gloves in foods preparation there is no if or maybe in the kitchen
I find that not like at home even from grill or oven you have to wear gloves and clean your areas well, if not you'll lose your customers very soon and then what,...." your boss will not like it" (guessed yet?)
Yes,
I'm a prep/cook myself!
@Cristi_Ichim (3743)
• Bucharest, Romania
2 Apr 16
I am very confused. Why does that not make any sense to me? Am I retarded/idiotic or you have not phrased it right?
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@Cristi_Ichim (3743)
• Bucharest, Romania
2 Apr 16
@antonbunot
"O, they worked fast and they TOUCHED everything in the kitchen aside from the foods they were preparing!"
I went over this more than once but still can't make any sense out of it whatsoever. Help me please.
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
2 Apr 16
@Cristi_Ichim . . Okay, what is the use of wearing gloves when they still touch and hold everything in the kitchen including their noses? Got the point?
. . Okay, what is the use of wearing gloves when they still touch and hold everything in the kitchen including their noses? Got the point?1 person likes this
@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
2 Apr 16
It's good that in popular burger stand near my house, the crew not only wear gloves but they also use tongs when preparing food, since the stand is a small foldable type, you can see exactly what they are doing. Another thing is they wear gowns, aprons and hairnets
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
2 Apr 16
@antonbunot You have a very good point there, the tongs can also be easily sterilized by passing over a flame
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
2 Apr 16
The use of tongs is a good way to prepare burgers and other fast foods. Our hands even if covered with gloves touch and hold everything in the kitchen including dirty rags.
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
2 Apr 16
@louievill I even saw one worker scratching his arms . . then took the burger and put it in a small packet.
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
2 Apr 16
@antonbunot Aaaa...that's disgusting just imagining what they might be doing there!
@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
2 Apr 16
@chemetic O, that is nothing compared to Chinese Buffet (Eat all you can, baby) restaurants. We don't see what the cooks are doing inside the kitchen!
) restaurants. We don't see what the cooks are doing inside the kitchen!@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
2 Apr 16
@cherriefic O, I don't even think about what they are doing in the kitchen!
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
28 Jun 16
Health rules vary from place to place. We are not required to wear gloves to assemble your burger. We do have disposable gloves for raw meat that get thrown out after every run. We have a timer that tells us to wash our hands every thirty minutes. If we accidentally touch fish, lobster or anything that might be contaminated we are supposed to go wash our hands before doing anything else. I wash my hands a lot and I can go through an awful lot of those gloves during the course of a shift.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
28 Jun 16
@antonbunot In Atlantic Canada we serve the McLobster during the summer. The owner of my location is the inventor and the money he got from that creation bought him the franchise.
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
28 Jun 16
@koopharper Wow! I would like to taste that McLobster! Must be expensive, ey! It is not served here in Alberta.
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
28 Jun 16
All Fast food workers should learn from you! But you don't work in a Fast food restaurant as there are no lobsters served in Burger King and MacDo!
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
3 Apr 16
I remember working at Taco Bell and we had to wear gloves back then.
However today, I do not see them wearing them.
I think it should be a practice in all food if possible.
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@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
3 Apr 16
@antonbunot It is hard to prevent any kind of bacteria in food prep..but it must be done..look what happen at Chipotle omg. Now they want to make burgers haha
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Apr 16
Burger preparer at leading fast food restaurants do wear gloves . . but they touch and hold everything in the kitchen other than the burgers they are preparing! Ugh!
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Apr 16
@TiarasOceanView I don't buy burgers or other fast foods in MacDo or Burger King. I drop by our favorite A&W if my wife and I crave for burgers. . 
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Apr 16
@Vjvals Even if they keep changing their gloves if they keep touching and holding dirty things other than the foods they are preparing - - they are filling up the burgers with germs.
@Juliaacv (51193)
• Canada
3 Apr 16
@antonbunot No, the 30 second rule pertains to food still being considered edible after it falls on the floor and sits there for that amount of time.
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Apr 16
@Juliaacv 30-second rule to prepare a burger?! Ugh, too!
@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
5 Apr 16
@Juliaacv What?! Nah, those hungry germs on the floor would be in the burgers in just 2 seconds! That is how germs love burgers!
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
4 Apr 16
@antonbunot No we're not in Spain any more - came home last Tuesday.
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
5 Apr 16
@jaboUK Going to your page to see some new rhymes!
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Apr 16
@jaboUK Are you still in Spain, my friend? Well, I think I am immune to fast food germs already!
fast food germs already!1 person likes this
@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Apr 16
@amadeo . . Good for you, my friend! I drop by at A&W once in a while.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
3 Apr 16
@antonbunot I do not think we have A&W any more they are gone.Do you have them there?
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
5 Apr 16
@amadeo Yup, we have here! We also have Wendy's! Of course, we have Burger King, MacDo . . . We don't have Booger King here though!
@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
8 Apr 16
@Sol_cee . . . The only thing that I could guarantee being 99% clean is what my wife cooks at home.
@KnehKnah (3584)
• Philippines
5 Apr 16
I am sure our burgers are not as clean as they look when served, my dear Julito. I've seen how a crew made my burger. He was wearing gloves all right, but he touched everything including the money I paid for the burger AND the coins he gave me back! Yuck!
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
5 Apr 16
&KenhKnah I heard that popular restaurant called Jollibee is a clean place to eat. I am talking about the restaurant not the foods they serve! . . .
. . .
@vickyrose (2235)
• Cooma, Australia
5 Apr 16
I only use these 'fastfood' for convenience and for Mcdonalds, the toilets are always OK anywhere around the world.
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
5 Apr 16
@vickyrose Ah, okay! Even MacDo's Men's washrooms here are clean!
@Yar_Joey (3271)
• Philippines
9 Apr 16
@antonbunot But how about what you posted here? They touch the burgers so this means your burgers are clean?
@scheng1 (24649)
• Singapore
20 Apr 16
I just had a chance to observe the fast food workers at work yesterday evening.
I was there for an ice cream cone, and I had to wait 5 minutes for it.
There were more than 12 kitchen staff at work.
They had no time to do anything else except their assigned work.
One had to manage the fries, no time else for anything.
I guess that is due to the peak hour, so having a grand total of 20 staff at work means nobody has to leave their assigned work area.
@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
11 Apr 16
I don't try to think of those things anymore because i seldom eat on Fast Foods . I just relish my burger and fries whenever i get to eat them , because anyway , they're fried . 
@carebear29 (31963)
• Wausau, Wisconsin
2 Apr 16
I used to work at McDonald's so I know everything there. LOL
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
2 Apr 16
@carebear29 . . . Tell us more! Please!
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Apr 16
@sallypup Well, I am not sure either about what is actually going on in the kitchens of non-fast-foods restaurants . . especially Chinese buffet restaurants. But I am sure most of them are tired and unhappy. What do we expect from tired and unhappy cooks?!
@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
2 Apr 16
It isn't just a fast food joint which is probably more sanitary due to high volume and heat. Who knows what goes on in any restaurant kitchen and that includes 5 star places. Remember when "glue steaks" were revealed as being served in expensive reataurants?
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@antonbunot (11093)
• Calgary, Alberta
3 Apr 16
@JohnRoberts Glue steaks! O, man, I am imagining what is going on in the kitchens of Chinese buffet restaurants!
@CaseyRoss9966 (4056)
• United States
5 Aug 16
I try not to eat at fast food places because the food is bad for us and in my home town and in my state they do not always wear gloves. Especially at McDonald's they don't wear gloves and I know that the majority of people don't wash their hands when they go to the bathroom even though they are supposed to. If I eat fast food I try to only eat at Chick-Fil-A because the food is high quality, the place is clean, and they always wear gloves.
