[GeronL]

I am amused at the number of people who don’t seem to know that the water in the toilet tank and the water coming from the sink come from the same pipes.

[Hardraade]

Not from the tank. From the bowl.

[hoosierham]

I once watched restaurant worker carry out two 5 gallon buckets full of ice to the drink machine.She sat both buckets on the floor in front of the machine.You know,the very same place where hundreds of customers shoes trod ever day.She then opened the machine's lid,picked up one bucket at at time ,and dumped the ice into the machine. So far,so good.

THEN the worker picked up one bucket ,dropped it into the other bucket and carried them away.

I doubt anyone even rinsed out the buckets between carries.

When I spoke to the manager,I got a look of incomprehension,as though she could not see a problem.

[JRandomFreeper]

It's not just that.

When I run a kitchen, the ice scoop is kept in a 1/3 pan with bleach water (50PPM) in it.

Doesn't go back, or you reach in with your hands, or a glass? Fired.

Walk into the kitchen and don't first go to the sink and wash? Fired.

Ice machines are dangerous. They are a prime place to grow bacteria.

When I was in a military kitchen, they got emptied and bleached regularly. I couldn't fire anyone... but I could make life miserable.

If I see an ice scoop on top of an ice machine, I won't eat at a restaurant.

I'm a jerk about it, but 20% of a deployment ineffective or degraded with a preventable stomach bug just doesn't suck, it can get you killed.

In the military, in the field, we had daily health inspections by the medical officers. In the commercial world, when I run a kitchen, I do the same inspection.

Some folks love me, some folks hate me. Most don't know and don't care.

/johnny

[jonascord]

I was going to say that she should have also gotten a sample from the the bathroom sink faucet. Very few fast food restaurants use toilet tanks. The popular alternative is those timed auto valves.

[hinckley buzzard]

I invite anyone who takes this juvenile baloney seriously, to take a drink from the toilet rather than ice from the ice machine next time they are in a McDonalds. Then we'll see who really believes this crapola.