I see Mr. Hamburger got an 85 on their health dept. inspection this week. I'm not surprised. Several weeks ago I was in there and was served by a (nice) young lady with long hair but no hair net, no gloves, and with some kind of a septum piercing, all without wearing a mask.
I know self-expression is all the rage, and what people do to their bodies for attention mostly isn't my concern. But if you're going to be handling or serving food for others, you really have no business running metal through your nose or mouth unless you're going to be wearing a mask. I don't want your snot, your inadvertent drool, or anything else leaking out and onto my food. I don't want you absentmindedly fiddling with your piercing while you're working with my food or the equipment. I don't care how rare or unlikely you think that is; it's more likely than if you don't have those types of piercings.
A few years ago I was at C&J's BBQ where an employee who was scooping out our food had a lip piercing of some sort that was all red and infected-looking around the metal rod. I don't know what they were thinking, but I haven't gone back to that location since.
Business owners - have the sense to require masks for anyone handling food who has those kinds of piercings. I don't want to see them and I don't want to wonder what's gotten onto my food as a result. Mr. Hamburger is one such place I won't visit again because of this, and Urban Table is in the same category.
Oh, and while you're at it, don't forget the gloves.
I know self-expression is all the rage, and what people do to their bodies for attention mostly isn't my concern. But if you're going to be handling or serving food for others, you really have no business running metal through your nose or mouth unless you're going to be wearing a mask. I don't want your snot, your inadvertent drool, or anything else leaking out and onto my food. I don't want you absentmindedly fiddling with your piercing while you're working with my food or the equipment. I don't care how rare or unlikely you think that is; it's more likely than if you don't have those types of piercings.
A few years ago I was at C&J's BBQ where an employee who was scooping out our food had a lip piercing of some sort that was all red and infected-looking around the metal rod. I don't know what they were thinking, but I haven't gone back to that location since.
Business owners - have the sense to require masks for anyone handling food who has those kinds of piercings. I don't want to see them and I don't want to wonder what's gotten onto my food as a result. Mr. Hamburger is one such place I won't visit again because of this, and Urban Table is in the same category.
Oh, and while you're at it, don't forget the gloves.