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At least the screen is only touced by you. My peril are the touch screen ordering places (practically all fast food places nowadays) where based on their outloo

At least the screen is only touced by you. My peril are the touch screen ordering places (practically all fast food places nowadays) where based on their outlook hygienically challanged persons swipe their fingers up and down for long before you have a chance following them. There is an icecream place opened nearby I had no chance trying because they only have touchscreen order. Guys at the till only serve icecream and all orders must go through the touch screen. They put the icecream into a cone - if you dared to ordered so - and put into the fingers of the customer who just swiped the same finger over a screen swiped by dozens of unknow people before. Oi!

shmeeed 2y ago
I use my knuckle for that, because I'm much less likely to touch my food or face with it later. Same goes for e.g. elevator buttons.
goldsteinq 2y ago
Do you get a freshly-printed paper menu every time? From the hygiene standpoint, remote-ordering from your phone is the best, screens are worse (but at least you can wipe them before use) and paper menus are the worst, since it may be harder to disinfect them.
- adastra22 2y ago
  The people before you have also touched the seat and table, the door handle, breathed the air your breathing, etc.
- capitainenemo 2y ago
  Which is why restaurant menus are often laminated.
  - dylan604 2y ago
    No, they are laminated to protect from spills that damage the menus and require a replacement. The places with laminated menus are not concerned about your health when making the lamination decisions. Otherwise, do you assume by their being laminated that the staff dutifully washes/disinfects them after being collected from each table every time? I can assure you they are not. They are only wiped off when they are spilled upon, and not even that well.
- mihaaly 2y ago
  It was beyond the phone screen based matters you see (which is a great dirt magnet beyond toilet seats actually, like keyboards, coming from the need of constant touch in all and every life situations). I believe you hold paper menu without the need of smearing the matter on your skin all over it you know (or just leave alone on the table if it is one page), unlike touch screens where it is a must ... Also the fast food places stear people towards glass surfaces smearing the cover of their skin all over normally had no menus, just look up and say what you want. Now, you must touch all over like the handle of the public toilet, only more! Different scenario. [1] https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/your-cell-phone-10-times-dirtier-toilet-seat-heres-what-do-about-it https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/your-cell-phone-10-times-dirtier...
DiggyJohnson 2y ago
I don't mean to be too forceful about this, but how is a common touchscreen ordering system any better or worse than the door handle you used to walk in?
- mihaaly 2y ago
  I wouldn't use the entrance door as example due to automatic doors in most places, but lets assume the toilet door handle, that is even more disgusting. I would say that there is no difference! : ) Except not everyone is using the toilet door handle, and not for prolonged time, holding and swiping for long seconds or minutes, no, unlike with a touch screen ordering system, which they swipe around for looong, each of them ordering, making sure all the content of their skin is thorougly applied on the surface, practically everyone does that - except me in case I have the option going to the till and order by speaking (before someone niggle: I stand back and not spraying saliva :) ).

shmeeed 2y ago

I use my knuckle for that, because I'm much less likely to touch my food or face with it later. Same goes for e.g. elevator buttons.

goldsteinq 2y ago

Do you get a freshly-printed paper menu every time? From the hygiene standpoint, remote-ordering from your phone is the best, screens are worse (but at least you can wipe them before use) and paper menus are the worst, since it may be harder to disinfect them.

adastra22 2y ago
The people before you have also touched the seat and table, the door handle, breathed the air your breathing, etc.
capitainenemo 2y ago
Which is why restaurant menus are often laminated.
- dylan604 2y ago
  No, they are laminated to protect from spills that damage the menus and require a replacement. The places with laminated menus are not concerned about your health when making the lamination decisions. Otherwise, do you assume by their being laminated that the staff dutifully washes/disinfects them after being collected from each table every time? I can assure you they are not. They are only wiped off when they are spilled upon, and not even that well.
mihaaly 2y ago
It was beyond the phone screen based matters you see (which is a great dirt magnet beyond toilet seats actually, like keyboards, coming from the need of constant touch in all and every life situations). I believe you hold paper menu without the need of smearing the matter on your skin all over it you know (or just leave alone on the table if it is one page), unlike touch screens where it is a must ... Also the fast food places stear people towards glass surfaces smearing the cover of their skin all over normally had no menus, just look up and say what you want. Now, you must touch all over like the handle of the public toilet, only more! Different scenario. [1] https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/your-cell-phone-10-times-dirtier-toilet-seat-heres-what-do-about-it https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/your-cell-phone-10-times-dirtier...

DiggyJohnson 2y ago

I don't mean to be too forceful about this, but how is a common touchscreen ordering system any better or worse than the door handle you used to walk in?

mihaaly 2y ago
I wouldn't use the entrance door as example due to automatic doors in most places, but lets assume the toilet door handle, that is even more disgusting. I would say that there is no difference! : ) Except not everyone is using the toilet door handle, and not for prolonged time, holding and swiping for long seconds or minutes, no, unlike with a touch screen ordering system, which they swipe around for looong, each of them ordering, making sure all the content of their skin is thorougly applied on the surface, practically everyone does that - except me in case I have the option going to the till and order by speaking (before someone niggle: I stand back and not spraying saliva :) ).