Okay, so you don’t have to be the brightest person to work in a shopping mall food court sandwich bar but a little common sense wouldn’t hurt.  My SPOTD today was the employee at “Anytime Sandwiches” in Westfield Shopping Centre Airport West who doesn’t quite understand the concepts of food handling and gloves.

One of the things that annoys me about many food handlers is that they wear latex gloves on one hand as a hygiene measure when preparing food (eg: a sandwich) and then hand over the food, accept the money in their gloved hand, operate the cash register, fumble around in the till, return the money in their gloved hand and then proceed to deal with the next customer’s food - without changing their glove.

The blonde female employee at the sandwich bar took it an extra step though.  Spotting a fly buzzing around in the salad cabinet she reached in with her gloved hand and squashed it against the inside of the glass cabinet.  It was still alive after the first attempt to squash it so she repeated the action.  After catching the carcass she then retracted her hand from the cabinet, flicked the fly onto the floor of the store and immediately began handling food again.  Mmmm… yummy!

At the time we were debating where to eat but that action eliminated that store from the options pretty quickly!  I’m sure other stores were similarly unhygienic but at least we didn’t have to see squashed fly guts being rubbed into the food by a SPOTD!

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