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Despite the regulations, I’ve been food poisoned by restaurants around half a dozen times in my life. And despite regulations to the contrary, for the entire 7
by jaredklewis 9y ago
Despite the regulations, I’ve been food poisoned by restaurants around half a dozen times in my life.
And despite regulations to the contrary, for the entire 7 years I lived in Chicago, not a single cab driver ever accepted a credit card (this was a ways back).
Not to say that regulations are bad or that I’m against regulations. Just that they are not magic. Further, due to the centralized enforcement mechanism, most regulations are difficult and expensive to enforce. This can often result in being seldomly enforced.
If the uber-ization of food preparation comes with an uber like rating system, my guess is that the efficacy of that distributed rating system will rival or surpass centralized regulations in preventing food poisoning.
- balls187 9y ago> Despite the regulations, I’ve been food poisoned by restaurants around half a dozen times in my life. Did you wash your hands before you ate?
- balls187 9y agoFor the downvoters, the #1 cause for food bourne illness is people not washing their hands before they eat. Usually if a restaurant is to blamed, there are multiple cases of illness outbreaks.
- sah2ed 9y agoI didn't downvote but I guess your question was a bit condescending since the narrator is likely not some helpless 10-year old still learning personal hygiene.
- balls187 9y agoOver 20 years my dad investigated claims of restaurant food poisoning, and there was a never an outbreak due to negligence; it was always deemed isolated incident attributed to not washing hands.