@shiney I have just read through all the post why am I confused is it about solely about restaurant mangers not hand shaking guests or about germs in general. I was a restaurant manger in two top hotels, and we never shook hands or any other touching ( I wish I could say the same with the minority of some of the guest with a drink down them ) if we could help it but a lot of the guest were regular visitors as I worked in one hotel for 13 years and I used to regularly get hugs and kisses from people I had known for that long. I saw small babies turn into teenagers , people split up, people turn up with people they shouldn't of been with , couple's who other half had died , divorce, groups of retired people starting with 10 or more and drooping down to two and all had died or just wasn't able to get out of the house or home , stars galore I could easily go on. So why is this all about Restaurant Managers, why not hand shaking in general or in hospitals which they still do today even though all the publicity about MRSA and the like. I remember watching Opera Winfrey and she had a whole program devoted to swabs taken from $$ and seats in the Cinema , door handles in shops etc now that was a eye opener with what they come up with I just dont get the thread sorry to say. Spruce
@Spruce Well said The reason I started it as being restaurant managers is that the incident I mentioned right at the start actually happened the other week. I wholeheartedly agree with you about not touching. When I was trained in silver service one of the first rules was 'No touching'. Hugs and kisses are quite common in restaurants where the customers have been going for many years. This is part of the business, and rightly so, but hand shaking should not be instigated by the staff - of any level. There are already international campaigns against hand shaking in general. In America, Obama has started fist bumping http://www.independent.co.uk/news/p...mployee-in-support-of-gay-rights-9602738.html The Aberystwyth University research has suggested that hand shaking should be replaced by fist bumping. I'm not too bothered in a lot of situations but in restaurants I don't shake hands even if the manager offers his. I'm going to be sitting at the table and picking up a bread roll! In most situations you're not going to be touching something and then putting food in your mouth. I wash my hands after going to the loo and at any time when I going to put my hands on food or on my mouth/nose etc. I do a lot of cooking and am continually washing my hands after different operations (as I was trained to in professional kitchens). So restaurant situations come to mind first but I agree it should apply in many other situations. The other week I was in a toilet in a sports centre. someone went to the loo, went to the sink, turned on the tap, didn't wash their hands and turned the tap off! What's that all about? I did say to him "Did you forget the washing bit?" Just got a glare in return.
I'd stretch out my opposite hand, to shake the hand of the waiter which was not contaminated. Sometimes I see people coughing or sneezing near open food counters in the supermarket - which is absolutely disgusting.
I never go near a supermarket salad bar all too often someone is sneezing over it dont think i have ever gone past one when someone hasnt
To be honest I never eat from a buffet , and the same with deli counters , or friends barbecue they never realise though..... well I hope not easy ways to mask it with out being rude. In fact not many places I eat out in ... and they all know in work if I go it has to be good in every aspect otherwise I just dont. No wonder the Queen wears gloves I was the person that changed the mints at the till area to be individually wrapped up, the person that stopped peanuts and the like in the bar area for all and sundry to help them selves too, and introduced individual pots for 1 person and this was over 20 years go , knowing if any food poisoning would reflect badly on the hotel. Its amazing though when it comes to the garden I end up covered in ....... make your own word up and dont think twice about it, but hands are scrubbed clean afterwards. @shiney I appreciate your explanation
I hadn't bothered to bring that up but Princess Anne, now, also does so. When we were just on holiday in Turkey the meals were all buffet. The buffets were spotless, there were plastic shields over them that left enough room for the long handled utensils to be used. Superb food. Re peanuts: the places that we go to now use narrow neck, single flower vases for the nuts. The only way to access the nuts is by picking up the 'vase' and tipping some nuts into your hand. If we go to any barbecues I'm always asked to take over the cooking. I don't mind, and I make sure that everything is kept clean. At work, in the staff room, all the staff had their own cups. They knew that if I saw any of them that were dirty they were binned!
I would not shake his hand. But I would inform him that he just shook hands with a man who sneezed in his hand. BTW, to all women, it is the choice of a women to shake the hand of a man. In fact it is good manners that the man WAITS until the women extends her hand to shake first. If the man extends his hand to shake before the women does, it is not rude but within good manners for the women to ignore his hand.
