The manager of a Wickford takeaway who did not know there was milk in cheese or eggs in mayonnaise was putting customers at risk, a council report has revealed.
*blinks*
Council officers reported the takeaway’s menu contained a statement saying customers should mention allergies to staff, however, when quizzed by officers, the manager did not understand what allergens were in foods.
The report stated: “He was not aware that there were eggs in mayonnaise and burger sauce, he did not know that milk was in cheese, or that gluten was in the pizza bases or pitta bread.
“The consequences of serving food containing an allergen to someone with an allergy could be death, it is serious and staff must be trained in allergen management.”
Well, yes. Was that the only issue discovered?
The report added: “Neither of the wash hand basins had soap, or hygienic hand drying facilities provided. A strainer had been left in the wash hand basin in the kitchen.”
Ah.
Jan Erdinc, deputy manager at Cosmos, said: “It’s all been sorted out and we are waiting to be reinspected and given a new score.
“When the inspectors came there was an issue with the electric and they kept tripping and unfortunately that was on the day they came. But that has all been rewired now.
The idiot manager runs on electricity? That was the issue?
“I can assure you if it was anything that serious they would have closed us down immediately.”
Well, then, you have more faith in the efficiency of the council than the rest of us!
8 comments:
While I'm as happy as the next man to slag off the Uk educational system, one suspects that the person involved in this case was not a product of it. More likely one somewhere closer to the Bosphorus.......
How do you get a job in the food industry if you don't know anything about food?
Our new country's going to be great!
Wth our education system this item comes as no surprise at all. In spite of being retired I was recently offered a job in a shop by the shop owner who saw me do mental arithmetic faster than the young assistant could add up with a calculator. It seems such basic life skills are increasingly hard for employers to find these days.
With modern phones everyone has a calculator to hand but an awareness of numbers and how they work is still needed. This becomes evident when people accidentally key in an extra digit and don't immediately realise that the answer is a whole order of magnitude out.
I would add that it is easy to blame the education system but an awful lot of people are quite thick. I suppose it might be possible to identify the thick ones early and just concentrate on teaching them the basics so that they can at least read, write and count.
"More likely one somewhere closer to the Bosphorus......."
I suspect you're right! The post title was a little tongue in cheek...😉
"How do you get a job in the food industry if you don't know anything about food?"
Same way you get a job in politics when you don't know anything about, well, anything? See David Lammy for an example.
"Our new country's going to be great!"
On the whole, I preferred our old one...
"It seems such basic life skills are increasingly hard for employers to find these days."
Too much reliance on machines to do our thinking for us!
"...and don't immediately realise that the answer is a whole order of magnitude out."
Because we've been taught 'computer is always right'...
"I suppose it might be possible to identify the thick ones early and just concentrate on teaching them the basics so that they can at least read, write and count."
It's eminently possible...but forbidden, because it's 'stigmatising'.
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