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Subway staff aren't trained to change their gloves after handling money

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,889 ✭✭✭✭The Moldy Gowl


    Do Me Good wrote: »
    But she's touching the food that everyone is eating. If that's the case, why bother using gloves at all?

    Just imagine all the things you have touched before eating or touching food.
    Those gloves are an illusion.

    What about when mammy makes dinner?
    You will be grand, you won't even notice a bit of dirt or the money.


    You are still touching the money in your pocket and then eating the roll with the same hands. Dosent make a blind bit of notice if he touches someone else's money as well.
    You don't know where the money has been and either way, it's not gonna kill you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Does subway even have ketchup? Don't ever remember seeing ketchup in Subway.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    That's not the worst thing about Subway.
    100% of sandwich artists do not know how to make 'The Melt' properly. There is a big clue in the title of the sandwich.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    syklops wrote: »
    Does subway even have ketchup? Don't ever remember seeing ketchup in Subway.

    I've noticed that certain regional varieties in what Subway offers. Some have ketchup, some have coleslaw and one particular place it seemed to be de rigour to put salt and pepper on the finished sub :eek: Friend said he was in one that offered garlic sauce but that's totally far fetched.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 123 ✭✭Do Me Good


    Just imagine all the things you have touched before eating or touching food.
    Those gloves are an illusion.

    What about when mammy makes dinner?
    You will be grand, you won't even notice a bit of dirt or the money.

    You are still touching the money in your pocket and then eating the roll with the same hands. Dosent make a blind bit of notice if he touches someone else's money as well.
    You don't know where the money has been and either way, it's not gonna kill you.
    The kitchen that mammy cooks doesn't have hundreds of people passing through it every day


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mahoganygas


    Hammer89 wrote:
    I'm pretty sure people would still find a way to be offended.


    Screw you! That's offensive.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    I just wish that Subway would flatten out their meatballs. Very hard to eat a meatball marinara without the meatball running away from you as you try and put it in your mouth !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭EazyD


    Do Me Good wrote: »
    The kitchen that mammy cooks doesn't have hundreds of people passing through it every day

    Neither does the counter from which the food comes from. I've worked in a shop/deli and had to do both roles (till and deli). When handling money I would take one glove off and use just the one hand for taking money and giving change, then put that same glove back on when resuming in the deli. There simply wasn't enough time and boxes of gloves to be replacing them for each customer.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 123 ✭✭Do Me Good


    Howaya missus. Welcome to Subway. Wha' can I getcha?

    Gi's one o' dem salty footlong things wi'h mayo and meatballs. I'm gaggin' for one. Been waiting all morning to stuff one o' dem in me gob.

    No problem love. Don' forget to bring a few serviettes with ye now coz that'll be a bit messy, ye know. Nice, but messy.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha! Ye durty, durty baaaastard ye.
    that was funnier than the first!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 540 ✭✭✭GreatDefector


    Do Me Good wrote: »
    "just a very small bit (and gestured) understand... small?"

    On the 12th day of Christmas the O P gave to me .... Patronising on boards dot ie


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 123 ✭✭Do Me Good


    EazyD wrote: »
    Neither does the counter from which the food comes from. I've worked in a shop/deli and had to do both roles (till and deli). When handling money I would take one glove off and use just the one hand for taking money and giving change, then put that same glove back on when resuming in the deli. There simply wasn't enough time and boxes of gloves to be replacing them for each customer.
    Well what she did just didn't look good if you know what I mean.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Do Me Good wrote: »
    Well what she did just didn't look good if you know what I mean.

    :confused: No, no we don't


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    I hate this PC rubbish. Everyone knew what the OP was saying, why so many jump on the PC bandwagon.

    I fly from Kerry to Luton 2 of 3 times a month (with Mr. O'Leary), and it is not possible to understand the safety announcements as at least 90% of staff do not natively speak the same language as the majority of the passengers (PC way of saying foreigners).

    Lets wait until a incident, get some people killed, then someone will be bold enough to make a change.

    Ive never been to subway.

    SB


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,175 ✭✭✭cruizer101


    Got to say the sauce thing wrecks my head too, also when they make the roll then put the sauce on and wrap it up so the sauce is all over the outside.

    Mate asked to get mustard on one before and it was english mustard so very strong and of course it got slopped on like was mayonnaise ruined his roll.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 123 ✭✭Do Me Good


    SlowBlowin wrote: »
    I hate this PC rubbish. Everyone knew what the OP was saying, why so many jump on the PC bandwagon.

    I fly from Kerry to Luton 2 of 3 times a month (with Mr. O'Leary), and it is not possible to understand the safety announcements as at least 90% of staff do not natively speak the same language as the majority of the passengers (PC way of saying foreigners).

    Lets wait until a incident, get some people killed, then someone will be bold enough to make a change.

    Ive never been to subway.

    SB
    PC?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    politically correct. Also, PC or p.c.

    Showing an effort to make broad social and political changes to redress injustices caused by prejudice. It often involves changing or avoiding language that might offend anyone, especially with respect to gender, race, or ethnic background.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mahoganygas


    SlowBlowin wrote:
    I fly from Kerry to Luton 2 of 3 times a month (with Mr. O'Leary), and it is not possible to understand the safety announcements as at least 90% of staff do not natively speak the same language as the majority of the passengers (PC way of saying foreigners).


    Isn't that a pre-recorded safety announcement with an Irish accent?

    All other live announcements are just scratch cards and after shave. Both of which propably won't cause deaths......


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    dont be so sure. Some of those aftershaves are rank.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭SlowBlowin


    Yes there is that terrible plumb english accent recording "..taking offff", but when something happens (turbulence etc), they do not play a recorded message, they speak, generally unintelligibly.

    If you sit by the emergency exits you used to get a detailed explanation you could understand. Now days most often they give you a card and say "read this".

    When there is an incident, someone needs to clearly take control of the passengers (like in the Hudson river landing), this would not happen today.

    SB


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭Minderbinder


    I agree with the OP about the gloves. When they're making sandwiches and using the same gloves to route through the till it is pretty disgusting. I've only noticed this where there is a subway counter in a londis shop and there's only one person there most of the time.

    I haven't seen it in the restaurants.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I haven't seen it in the restaurants.

    La-dee-da :p

    Whatever our thoughts on the gloves, can we all agree that their Southwest sauce is savage?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Actually, their worst offence is putting the cheese on wrong.

    It should be this!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭EazyD


    I agree with the OP about the gloves. When they're making sandwiches and using the same gloves to route through the till it is pretty disgusting. I've only noticed this where there is a subway counter in a londis shop and there's only one person there most of the time.

    I haven't seen it in the restaurants.

    See that mobile phone in your pocket? Pretty much guaranteed that there is as much if not more germs on it than a toilet seat. Doesnt seem to bother people though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    And all the while, they go out of their way to cater to vegetarians - every time I ask for a veggie patty sandwich, they ask me if I want them to change gloves before they start on it.

    PC gone mahahahahd, I tell you!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    McDonalds staff don't even wear gloves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,796 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    I totally agree with the op on the glove issue.

    money is one of the dirtiest things we have. imagine all the people in pubs and clubs that don't was their hands after the toilet and are handling money.

    not only is it disgusting but its against the food hygiene rules .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mahoganygas


    smash wrote:
    McDonalds staff don't even wear gloves.

    Food preparers in the back don't handle money at the front.

    Although the fries station at the side is a bit of a grey area..........


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Food preparers in the back don't handle money at the front.

    Although the fries station at the side is a bit of a grey area..........

    They still go on smoke breaks and use the toilets.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭SteM


    Food preparers in the back don't handle money at the front.

    Although the fries station at the side is a bit of a grey area..........

    I thought it was just their burger meat that was grey?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,488 ✭✭✭mahoganygas


    smash wrote:
    They still go on smoke breaks and use the toilets.


    So does Dylan McGrath and his chefs at the Rustic Stone?


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