213 points

Bonus:

https://www.newsx.com/world/health-violations-at-mcdonalds-location-that-hosted-trump-what-happened/

"Notably, Trump did not wear a hairnet or gloves while serving food, claiming that “my hands are clean already.” This assertion stands in stark contrast to health standards that require food handlers to maintain strict hygiene protocols.

In fact, the McDonald’s location Trump visited has a recent history of health code violations, having failed its last health inspection from Bucks County. The report cited multiple infractions related to employee hygiene, particularly the lack of proper handwashing practices, which are essential for minimizing the risk of foodborne illness."

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127 points

I love how he mocked Harris saying she never worked there or whatever and then does a publicity stunt but can’t even follow the most basic rules of the job. Someone actually working that position would be terminated for health code violation.

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44 points

Or maybe they wouldn’t, given the history of infractions at that location.

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14 points

Wasn’t one excuse he gives for eating at McDonalds is because he knows he won’t be poisoned? Like when he was in the White House, with a fancy ass kitchen staff full of top chefs he’d still rather get McDonald’s.

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34 points

“my hands are clean already”

As someone who ran a restaurant kitchen for 5 years, this is called a lack of standards. Oh I forgot gloves? Meh. That’s a slippery slide that shows you don’t actually care or have standards, and you throw rules by the side when it suits you. That a sign of a shit worker.

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2 points

This is called “someone who doesn’t wash when they go to the bathroom because they say their hands are clean already.” That’s what this is called.

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29 points

I can’t wait until they’re on the news next year because they were shut down because every business Trump touches turns to shit. Like the King Midas of poop. King Poodass.

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8 points

King mierdas. Mierda is spanish for shit.

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19 points

Looks like we have photographic evidence of more health code violations. Who do we contact?

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14 points

The restaurant is closed, so as long as they claim they threw away everything he touched they should be fine.

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24 points

The health inspector has declared anything that is an official act no longer violates the laws of microbiology.

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6 points

I’m kind of a germaphobe and am big on washing hands, but if I were a mcdonalds employee, there’s just no way I’d have gloves on to put out the hamburger patties then take the gloves off, and wash my hands, then put another set of gloves on to do other food prep stuff.

I’m not washing my hands between every glove swap. You don and doff your gloves correctly there’s no reason to.

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5 points

Yeah I’ve watched some of those mcdonald’s shift videos and I cringe at the amount of gloves constantly being used for 3 seconds then thrown away

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3 points

If you’re changing to something that needs a glove change that often, than you’re probably screwing up somewhere. You take money or wipe off counters or handle raw meat, you need to change gloves.

But washing your hands after you take off gloves, before putting another pair of gloves on?

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Thank you for your service.

I can’t thank the presidential candidate for his service though, since there wasn’t any.

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2 points

Ew.

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90 points

“We are not a political organization.”

Well even if I believed you, which I don’t, you will be now. Good job dipshit.

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78 points

Small business??? Bitch you own a fucking McDonald’s get the fuck out of here

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28 points

They technically qualify. All the franchises do. Yes it’s cursed. Especially when it’s time to hand out SBA funds. Remember the pandemic? All the small business money got sucked up by franchises and large money cap/small employee number businesses.

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Poor guy probably got a small million dollar loan for his small McDonalds business!

We all know how much McDonald Trump cares about small businesses…

Also there is this… https://www.newsweek.com/mcdonalds-donald-trump-worked-failed-last-health-inspection-1971998

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5 points

Read the sticker, he doesn’t own a franchise he owns the “DG Empire” what a dork

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1 point

Many are franchises, so yes, it’s technically a small business.

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71 points

Of course they closed the McD for that occasion. DT is not qualified or certified to work with food. Imagine he undercooks something or f-cks up cleaning the salad properly and people fall ill. Of he could have spread some germs, as we don’t know what prevents him from publishing his medical record.

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44 points

Plus he’s a convicted felon so probably not eligible for employment at a McDonalds.

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31 points

If felons weren’t allowed in food service we’d all be going hungry

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6 points

Some felons are working during their incarceration. Not by choice either.

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18 points

They probably also had to sanitize everything and throw out any food his diaper touching hands have touched

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3 points

Plus, the Secret Service needs. Logistically, they had to.

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Well you don’t want food service workers wearing gloves for the most part. Nonsterile gloves protect the wearer much more than anything they’re touching and food should be the opposite of chemically unsafe to touch. Gloves can also undermine a focus on or even specifically discourage regular handwashing which is what actually keeps food and food prep equipment clean / sanitary. Unless you have cuts, sores, warts or some other infection on your hands, gloves are the least helpful solution to keeping food sanitary.

That said, I doubt he washes his hands adequately and the whole hairnet thing is gross AF, especially with that glued-on dead animal he calls hair.

I just get feisty about the gloves thing because I remember during the pandemic when my hospital was struggling to keep gloves in stock for us to handle blood and bodily fluids with, and one day in an urgent care I saw a patient in the waiting room wearing gloves reach up and run his gloved hands through his hair. I almost just screamed at him. They’re not magic clean hand socks you have to use them properly and in the right situations.

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30 points

I went to subway recently (and briefly) and the employee sneezed into their gloved hand before starting my sandwich. Literally no glove change, just grabbed the bread and kept going.

I said never mind and left.

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3 points

Subway is the X.com of sandwiches. Way too many people giving it undue legitimacy.

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3 points

We went to a breakfast place and watched a cook walk into the means room, then back out wearing gloves. We noped out pretty fast

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16 points

I’m right with you on “magic clean hand socks”. In the canteen at my last job the staff would make sandwiches wearing gloves and then take money from customers and ring it up on the till - still wearing the same gloves. Cash is the filthiest thing you could touch in this situation, but they’d go and make the next sandwich after handling it. Yuck.

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4 points

The baker here uses small thin plastic bags instead of gloves. You can get into them far quicker than any glove, you can still grab bread, rolls, and other things with it, but they are a hindrance for using the POS or handling cash, so they remove them for that.

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1 point

Genius.

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8 points

I definitely had my doubts when Subway started having their employees wear those weird loose “definitely not sterile” plastic gloves while making sandiwches.

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23 points

Subway is a little different because it’s often the same person taking cash as making the food. Money is dirty and the register doesn’t get sanitized too often either. The option is wash your hands with soap and water after taking payment or slap on some fresh gloves. Those loose gloves are a faster changeover than properly washing your hands. And they don’t have to be sterile, just clean.

In a McDonalds you have separate folks doing the prepping & cooking vs the ordering and serving. If the person the person touching the food never touches the register, and the person handling the ordering/serving only touches the outside of the packaging, then neither of them have to wash their hands as often.

The problem with rubber gloves in food service is they provide a false sense of security. They make you think you are being sanitary, when the reality is you should wash or change your gloves anytime you touch something that would have necessitated you to wash bare hands.

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2 points

You mean the ordering and serving guy that hands over your ice cream cone with no gloves?

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Well, like you say, it’s all down to proper use.

Don’t bare-hand raw meat, don’t use meated up gloves to touch other things.

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