I worked briefly for that national sandwich chain that required gloves. It is absolutely not allowed to handle cash or touch anything that isn’t related to the food. In fact, technically, you’re supposed to change gloves in between each sandwich. Now, enforcement of this policy depends on the staff and management, but that is the policy. Properly used gloves aren’t the problem. My staff uses them. Some use them for everything, I usually just use them for stuff that’s ready to eat, such as a salad or finishing/wrapping a sub, ect. We make sure they are changed regularly and anytime you handle something not food preparation related. And an employee is, say handling money with gloves and going back to making food, I doubt that they would be the ones washing their hands after handling cash. I just don’t think it’s a case, like we do too often, where we just throw the whole thing out because some people aren’t doing it right.
