You must have eaten at a Western fast-food restaurant. Have you noticed how the fries are scattered, there are no utensils available, and anyone can grab the straws?
A clean dining environment, soothing background music, and the wafting warmth... on a cold winter day, the atmosphere in a Western fast-food restaurant is exceptionally cozy. However, it has been discovered in some world-famous Western fast-food chains that certain dining processes lead to frequent contact between customers and germs. Is this truly unavoidable? Or are the establishments not considering the health of their customers?
The first to be affected is the fry. As soon as hot fries are quickly scooped into a paper bag by the staff, the unstable bag falls over on the tray, and the loose fries scatter all over. The tray is covered with a colorful advertisement. Is this paper printed with edible ink? Or has it been sanitized? Actually, this problem could be easily solved with a stable packaging box.
Then there's the problem of eating the fries. The restaurant does not provide any usable utensils, such as toothpicks or small plastic forks, so customers have to eat the fries with their hands. While Western restaurants do have restrooms, they are not spacious, and eating with one's hands is not a common dining habit for most people in China. Some people leave the ends of the fries they've touched, while a very few carefully pick up the fries using a napkin. Most people, especially children, just grab the fries and eat them directly.
The way straws are dispensed is also a problem. In more well-known Western fast-food restaurants, straws are either placed at a fixed location in the dining area or at the checkout counter. If a straw is touched by a contaminated hand, no matter where it is touched, it will inevitably end up in a drink or a person's mouth. Getting a straw at the checkout is even more dangerous, as it means that with one hand having just handled money, the other hand goes to touch the straw. This issue can be completely resolved by the staff inserting the straw when they provide the drink.