Which types of restaurants are required to wear gloves when preparing food?
A. Massachusetts law requires that ALL food handlers wear gloves when handling “cooked or ready-to-eat foods. It does not matter what kind of restaurant, cafeteria, sub shop or bakery it is. This means that anytime someone in a restaurant is making a sandwich, slicing meats, buttering toast, serving a slice of pizza, or handling any food that is not going to be cooked further, THEY SHOULD BE WEARING GLOVES. They should also be CHANGING THOSE GLOVES after touching something unsanitary. So the next time you are in a sub shop and the person making your sandwich is not wearing gloves, or IS NOT CHANGING THEM in between touching the food and touching anything else (refrigerator door, broom handle, money, trash barrel) , they could be contaminating your food with their own germs, or something else unsanitary. You can either refuse that sandwich, walk out, or ask that they make you a new one with clean gloves.
