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I don't see how it's low-risk to have an infected person preparing your food in the kitchen. At least with a grocery store, you can wash off the produce before
by magduf 7y ago
I don't see how it's low-risk to have an infected person preparing your food in the kitchen.
At least with a grocery store, you can wash off the produce before you use it. With a restaurant, there's nothing covering the food at all.
And remember, the chefs in the kitchen are paid peanuts, and have no safety net whatsoever, so there's zero incentive for them to get tested or to stay out of work if they get sick. This is also the case during normal times. Eating out is a good way to catch something in a country where we think it's a great idea to fire cooks and other low-wage workers when they call in sick.
- zaroth 7y agoTake out and delivery is still allowed. So I don’t see how this is a valid critique of why dining rooms are closed.
- magduf 7y agoWhere did I critique why dining rooms are closed? I didn't address that at all; I only addressed eating food prepared in a restaurant by low-wage cooks who could be infected.
- mdavidn 7y agoA large number of unknown people from the general public have been in contact with the dine-in table. Only a handful of kitchen staff are in contact with surfaces involved in preparing takeout. Eating at home is still a better idea for the reasons you state, but takeout is an acceptable if less-ideal alternative.
- magduf 7y agoI'm not disputing the fact about unknown people from the general public being in contact with the table. That's enough of a reason to not dine-in. I'm just pointing out that I have no trust at all that the cooks aren't infected, and they're coming into intimate contact with your food.