Maybe you've run into this before. This is the first time going to a buffet restaurant and seeing "hand sanitizers" at the beginning of the line and the end. I was impressed, since I was originally going to wash in the restroom before getting in line. I asked if this was company wide and they said no. It was the managers idea. This restaurant has always been very clean and I would guess this is just another step. Have you ever run into this before outside of cruise ships?

How many used the "Hand Sanitizer"?

It's a pump and your hands do touch the pump but then you're washing your hands.

I wouldn't like picking up a cake of soap! Awwk!

I think its a great idea, except Im wondering how many people will actually use the sanitizer?? My guess is very few. When people are in a rush and HUNGRY they won't take the extra 10 seconds to put on the hand sanitizers. Trust me, people who attend buffets often are some of the dirtiest people I have ever met. Why do you think Burger king stopped having salad Bars??? Remember back in the day when Bk had salad bars?? With any buffets you need to hire at least one personn who sits and moniters the people who use the buffet because I've seen people use their hands to grab items, little kids picking their nose than grabbing carrots with their bare hands. ICK! I saw a little kid who had his hands down his pants, take that hand and grab a cinnamon Roll with his bare hand that was down his pants, YEt the mother was such a stupid dingbat she didn't even care! It was then I realized buffets are just a breeding ground for bugs and bacteria.

Eating out is one of those things, you should just do, and not think about it too much.

I remember hearing an interview with the Beatles, a long time ago, where they were talking about being offered sandwiches at the London airport, and they refused, because a couple of them had worked in the kitchen there, and said some of the workers occassionally spit in the sandwiches.

Years ago when I went into a restaurant with my radio station jacket on, I must not have played the cooks request on the radio or something. I believe he spit on my hamburger bun. It was slimy! Needless to say I've never been back!

True Story,
My cousin was graduating High school and after the graduation dinner we all decided to go out to dinner. As we were all sitting down at the table getting ready for our appetizers to come, i left the table to use the bathroom. After I was done relieving my self, i went over to the sink to wash my hands. OH THE HORROR!!!! THERE WAS NO RUNNING WATER, AND NO SOAP to wash my hands. "You have got to be shitting me" I thought to myself. Where are all the employees washing their hands at??????
I could not believe this. As I got back to the table are appetizers had arrived and everyone was munching on crab cakes. I didn't know what to do, I didn't want to say anything because it would ruin our great dinner that everyone was having. So instead of alerting my family I went over to the manager, and at this point was STEAMED!!!!
I told him "look you have no running water or soap in the mens bathroom, that is DISGUSTING and dirty! "If I see this next time I come in, I am calling the health department." I never saw a manager look so scared in his life! Thankgod nobody in my family got sick , but that just goes to show you how MAJOR health care issues are overlooked!

What gets me are self-service places where the same person who takes the money also makes the food. They seldom wash their hands between the two activities unless I ask - and some of them get downright annoyed with me for asking, especially the younger ones. There are a few places I don't even go into any more because of the attitude I've gotten over this issue.

Donut places are the worst, I watched one woman scream at an employee at a Dunkin Donuts because she took the money than picked up her donut with her bare hands. IT amazes me how dumb some people in the food industry are. Money is by far the dirtiest thing on this planet. KGW did a report where they took random dollar bills and cultured them to see what was on them, and guess what they found on them?
Lots of fecal matter and small traces of Cocaine.
Think of how many coke dealers have had your one, five, or twenty dollar bill that is sitting in your wallet.

Do coke dealers even accept $1's and $5's?

And I'd much rather have coke on my bills than poop! All the more reason to use a debit card!

When I worked in a cash-only liquor store and ran the register or counted and bundled the cash at closing, my hands would be filthy! And it sucked because it was a ski town and there were people from all over the world, so I was worried that I'd pick up some disease that was unknown and untreatable in the US and so I washed my hands about 15 times a day. Gross!

One of my favorite "Seinfeld" episodes was called "The Pie". Remember Poppie?

[Jerry and Poppie are in Poppie's restaurant bathroom, Jerry washes his hands while Poppie flushes and gets out of the stall]

POPPIE: Ah, Jerry! Tonight you in for a real treat. I'm personally going to prepare the dinner for you and my [daughter] Audrey.

[Poppie zips up and leaves without washing his hands and Jerry notices]

[Back at the table with Audrey, Jerry can see Poppie in the kitchen with his hands knee deep in the dough, making dinner]

AUDREY: Jerry are you OK?
JERRY: Huh?
AUDREY: Is anything wrong?
JERRY: No nothing.
AUDREY: You look like you've seen a ghost.

[Jerry can't talk, he's staring at Poppie's hands, Poppie smiles and winks at Jerry]

[THE NEXT DAY AT THE RESTAURANT a man in a coat walks in, a Health Inspector, he sees Audrey]

HEALTH INSPECTOR: All right, I'm looking for someone named Poppie.

AUDREY: Uh, who are you?

HEALTH INSPECTOR: Board of health, we've had several complaints.

JERRY: Oh, about the...uh [Jerry pretends to wash his hands]

HEALTH INSPECTOR: Are you Poppie?

POPPIE: I'm Poppie.

HEALTH INSPECTOR: I think you better come with me.

POPPIE: What's the problem? [Poppie leaves with the Inspector]

AUDREY: What do they want with Poppie?

JERRY: Well Poppie's a little SLOPPY.

[Scene Ends]

Since last year, I've seen hand sanitizers. Used in areas were animals are present. Such as the County Fair and the local Humane Society.

Scene: Yale student and Harvard student in men’s room both have just finished relieving themselves.

Yale student says to Harvard student "My good man, at Yale we were taught to wash our hands before leaving the restroom"

Harvard student to Yale student; "Well, at Harvard we were taught not to piss on our fingers"!!!

Bada boom!

Merkin says Do coke dealers even accept $1's and $5's?

Not sure, but I'm sure the cocaine and poop on your money increases when you start getting up to the 50 dollar bills. Hell, If you're carrying around a 50 dollar bill, make sure you handle it with sterile gloves, for your own protection! Just an FYI!

Ha! I haven't had anything bigger than a $1 or a $5 since I had a paycheck! From now on, I'm going to launder all the bills with Oxy-clean.

Love the Poppie! I also love the look on Jerry's face when one of Jerry's exiting girlfriends tells him she's put something of his in the bathroom in the toilet, after he couldn't kiss her anymore because he made her toothbrush(?) fall in the toilet. Or the one where he found the the anti-fungal cream that turned out to be the cat's.

It makes sense that fecal matter traces are found on Bills. Where do coke dealers hide their money, if they are worried about getting caught by the police?
Yes you guessed it, up their rear ends.
I guess the term "dirty money" realy means DIRTY MONEY!!! EEEEWWW! Im going to take a shower.
Later!

Now if only the employee's would use them!!!!!
Having sanitizers and soap and water inside the restroom does no good when people who don't have any sense of hygiene don't wash their hands. After some dude blows a hole in the bottom of the toilet and then grabs the handle to the door and leave. Then after you wash your hands as you should and grab that same handle....what's the point? I ain't a germaphobe but I usually take an extra paper towel and use it to open the door then dispose of it outside of the facilities. Put the hand sanitizer outside the door!!!

The sanitizers are all for show.

They only work against bacteria.

How often do you get sick from bacteria? When was the last time you had e-coli?

Almost never. It's VIRII that make you sick, and the sanitizers do nothing against them. In fact, by encouraging people to "sanitize" instead of actually washing, they may be counterproductive.