That last statement was just a false narrative being pushed by personal biases. McDonald’s has some of the strictest health code standards in the world. There’s a reason they’ve made it to the level they have. Because you can count on eating there and NOT getting sick
I was curious about this so I just googled it and Mcdonalds had an ecoli outbreak as recently as 2024 across 14 states. cyclospora in 2018.
Statistically you are probably more likely to get sick from Mcdonalds.
I worked in Japan. The amount of sanitation I had to do to serve something like chicken or oysters was far beyond anything I ever did in the U.S. where I cooked for decades.
so it's a clean noodle being picked up with a serving chopstick flowing down cold clean water in a chute that has been sanitized. What damage is a noodle doing?
I'm servsafe certified and have worked in food safety. All of this is very easy to manage safely. People are being weird and making incorrect assumptions.
If you are truly grossed out by this, you really probably don't want to be eating out at all.
I think they meant any random restaurant in America... And McDonald's was just the most generic one they pulled out of their memory pile for the conversation.
That being said, I agree McDonald's is probably one of the safest (short term) restaurants to eat at. Quality of the food and long term consumption might make me wonder. But I doubt that I'll get a food borne illness from them.
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u/that_name_is_taken 15d ago
How is Japan’s Ministry of Health signing off on this one? This look’s unsanitary.