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Going to the In-N-Out Burger drive through last night reminded me about how most businesses are doing it wrong and not helping at all with the transmission of the virus, because the staff is not properly educated, or don't have correct procedures put into place.
For instance, In-N-Out Burger will pull up the card reader to where you can reach it from your car and insert the card yourself with no touching between the worker and yourself or the card. Just about every other fast food restaurant with a drive through will grab the card from you to swipe it in the same device.
Gloves seem to make no difference in this particular application, since it is repeatedly reused, the same gloves that is used to handle cash and do everything else.
Walk-in fast food joints like Smashburger on 16th & Bryant usually don't even have staff wearing gloves, will handle cash, cards, and food items without sanitizing hands or washing in between. Last night I picked up an order where the girl demanded to see the order on the phone, and when I showed her the screen, she just reached for my phone and started touching it without any sort of warning or request.
Went to the Square Pie Guys on Mission Street where there seems to be an extremely vigilant guy handling the orders, but doing it all wrong. He will demand you get a fresh pair of gloves (good), but will hand you the pair of gloves using his dirty gloves. I've also seen him spray people's bare hands down with a tiny sprayer bottle which I imagine is isopropyl alcohol, just a very light fine mist which he then instructed them to fan their hands in the air to dry quickly. That's not how alcohol sanitization works.
I delivered in Amazon Flex package, where after I dropped off at the doorstep, rang the doorbell, turned around and headed back to the car, I saw the resident answer the door, spray the box quickly with Lysol, and reached for the box. Pretty sure that's not how Lysol works to my understanding, but I could be wrong.
I've learned in previous lives that a false sense of security is oftentimes much worse than no security at all.
Just a few examples that come to mind immediately, but I'm sure I could go all day if I keep thinking of all the things I've seen the past few weeks.
For instance, In-N-Out Burger will pull up the card reader to where you can reach it from your car and insert the card yourself with no touching between the worker and yourself or the card. Just about every other fast food restaurant with a drive through will grab the card from you to swipe it in the same device.
Gloves seem to make no difference in this particular application, since it is repeatedly reused, the same gloves that is used to handle cash and do everything else.
Walk-in fast food joints like Smashburger on 16th & Bryant usually don't even have staff wearing gloves, will handle cash, cards, and food items without sanitizing hands or washing in between. Last night I picked up an order where the girl demanded to see the order on the phone, and when I showed her the screen, she just reached for my phone and started touching it without any sort of warning or request.
Went to the Square Pie Guys on Mission Street where there seems to be an extremely vigilant guy handling the orders, but doing it all wrong. He will demand you get a fresh pair of gloves (good), but will hand you the pair of gloves using his dirty gloves. I've also seen him spray people's bare hands down with a tiny sprayer bottle which I imagine is isopropyl alcohol, just a very light fine mist which he then instructed them to fan their hands in the air to dry quickly. That's not how alcohol sanitization works.
I delivered in Amazon Flex package, where after I dropped off at the doorstep, rang the doorbell, turned around and headed back to the car, I saw the resident answer the door, spray the box quickly with Lysol, and reached for the box. Pretty sure that's not how Lysol works to my understanding, but I could be wrong.
I've learned in previous lives that a false sense of security is oftentimes much worse than no security at all.
Just a few examples that come to mind immediately, but I'm sure I could go all day if I keep thinking of all the things I've seen the past few weeks.
