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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ON SUNDAY, I was at Toa Payoh Central buying bread at a bakery.
As I was paying, I noticed that something had dropped on the floor. It was a piece of cake - the cashier's help had accidentally knocked it off a tray. Soon after, a customer picked it up and put it back.
Then a shocking thing happened. Without replacing it with a new piece, the cashier simply packed it for another customer - who seemed not to notice what had happened - and collected the money.
If the staff could ignore hygiene with a throng of patrons in the shop, what might happen when there are no customers?
Did the Geylang Serai food poisoning incident not teach us the importance of hygiene? With the recent outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1), food handlers should actually be more careful about hygiene. Lim Soo Chen (Ms)
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->ON SUNDAY, I was at Toa Payoh Central buying bread at a bakery.
As I was paying, I noticed that something had dropped on the floor. It was a piece of cake - the cashier's help had accidentally knocked it off a tray. Soon after, a customer picked it up and put it back.
Then a shocking thing happened. Without replacing it with a new piece, the cashier simply packed it for another customer - who seemed not to notice what had happened - and collected the money.
If the staff could ignore hygiene with a throng of patrons in the shop, what might happen when there are no customers?
Did the Geylang Serai food poisoning incident not teach us the importance of hygiene? With the recent outbreak of Influenza A (H1N1), food handlers should actually be more careful about hygiene. Lim Soo Chen (Ms)
