Restaurant and Bar Safety ?

[lomotil]

The servers in restaurant and bar are now wearing PPE masks, gloves and in some cases shields which is understable for self-protection and public safety during this pandemic. However the servers do not generally wash, disinfect, or change their gloves between customers or different tables do they ? Soiled gloves, bar rags, and other rags to wipe of tables seem like a great vector to spread pathogens. Health care professionals change or should change PPE between patients but restaurants and bars seem to not be up to adequate infection control measures and do not use hospital grade disinfection when setting up tables and handling food, cutlery etc. between customers.

 

[Toke]

The servers in restaurant and bar are now wearing PPE masks, gloves and in some cases shields which is understable for self-protection and public safety during this pandemic. However the servers do not generally wash, disinfect, or change their gloves between customers or different tables do they ? Soiled gloves, bar rags, and other rags to wipe of tables seem like a great vector to spread pathogens. Health care professionals change or should change PPE between patients but restaurants and bars seem to not be up to adequate infection control measures and do not use hospital grade disinfection when setting up tables and handling food, cutlery etc. between customers.

Gloves shouldn't be worn anyway. As you mentioned, they're not changed often enough so a bottle of hand sanitizer offers a much better safeguard.

 

[Butler1000]

The issue you should be worried about is being indoors and near others not wearing masks. That's how it's being transmitted.

I won't go into a restaurant until there is a vaccine or this mutates down to a flu level.