Illuminatus Primus wrote:Frank Hipper wrote:Often, fast food chains are a cleaner proposition on whole, compared to even more upscale restaurants. Their training regimen is more inclusive, often, than other places.
This of course can't account for necrophiliacs with a taste for chicken carcasses, or petty, vengeful teens giving you a snot burger, but generally speaking, sanitation is given a focus in fast food that simply isn't there in other restaurants.
Explain.
The standardised, regimented routines of operating a fast food joint are normally dictated from the parent corporation to individual franchises. These provide consistancy in product, and in food hygiene. While my personal experience in fast food is limited to a six month stint at a Domino's Pizza 21 years ago, we had itemised cleanup procedures to follow, and tests to pass in order to handle food. I can only assume that other chains have similar prodedures in place.
My personal experience in other types of restaurants is somewhat more extensive. There, you rely on "on the job" training, which can vary from place to place. Hygiene and food quality can be in the hands of owners and management whose primary motivation can be profit. Profit to the detriment of ahem,
freshness.
Also, it can be quite simple to recieve the most rudimentary health inspections and operate with high Health Department ratings.
Next time you're in a MacDonald's or Wendy's, take a good close look at the floor in kitchen. Then do the same in a small time restaurant, no matter what type.
Unless some kid blows his nose in it, I'll trust MacDonalds over
Chez Marmoset any day of the week.