Posted on 10/10/2023 5:34:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If you’re searching for a deadly infection, look no further than your local fast-food soda fountain.
A survey of the water dispensed from soda fountains in fast food restaurants revealed that a shocking 41% of them were contaminated with coliform bacteria, an indicator of water impurity.
Further analysis showed that the water was contaminated with some of the deadliest “superbug” germs known to science. These include antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Campylobacter jejuni, as well as listeria, salmonella and E. coli.
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I’d stay away from the touch screen menu kiosks, as well.
“I’d stay away from the touch screen menu kiosks, as well.”
Door handles, too. Along with ketchup pouches, napkin dispensers, countertops, tables, chairs, and parking lots.
I can believe it. Long ago I worked in a McDonald’s, and I know what it takes to clean a soda dispenser properly. I can guarantee that almost no convenience-store employees do this, and I’d bet that few restaurant employees do either. I won’t touch a fountain drink from any convenience store.
Opportunistic killers abound. And they ain’t all bacteria.
Thankfully, the sodas from the dispensers are mostly HFCS based. A very easy pass.
Just don’t eat there. Much easier. The employees making the food or drinks should wear gloves, and headgear. The people handling the cash ( Cash got lots of stuff on it, including fecal matter) should wear gloves or wash their hands often.
I used to get food poisoning about every 2 years cause I went to lots of fast food joints. Stopped goin’ there last 8 years.(except for 1 or 2 well known(to me) ones)...no food poisoning since.
Gotta watch the staff...if there are only teenagers in there and they’re laughing and having a good time...ok to get outta’ there.
Culvers people use gloves but don’t change them out after washing trays..handling money..and then handling your food
And those bathroom air dryers. Yeow.
Yeah...they gotta wash the gloves if you don’t change them often..I think those folks are wearing gloves to protect themselves, but they have to consider what’s on those gloves.
A couple of years ago, mid-Covid, I was at a local hamburger joint and a mom passively watched her 8 year old stand in front the soda fountains and cough directly at them.
I opted for a bottled drink and have avoided fountains since.
Its on the insides of the hoses between the soda canisters / water lines and dispensers. No one cleans them regularly, much less replaces the hoses regularly, to avoid this.
Same kind of issue with dentist office water hose lines.
A lady I knew ran a crew that cleaned soda machines. She never got a drink from one, ever. Even hospital ones were filthy.
Eeeeewww.
I’ve seen those fountains where the dispensers and lines were well taken care of, but contamination came from the filters the water dilution was pumped through.
I am sure the teenage employees are cleaning the equipment as well as they do their rooms at home..... 🤢
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