Country Buffet

So the hubby and I went out for dinner, just the two of us, after yesterday's meltdown. We picked Country Buffet because we can each get what we want and eat as much as we want. It also allows us to sit down and talk a little.  Not that either of us felt like talking much, we're still kind of broken. I know I'm still feeling broken.

Anyway, from where I was sitting, I could see the salad bar. I watched, in horror, as some elderly gentleman walked up with a plate, scooped salad onto the plate, set the tongs down and proceeded to pick things out of the salad with his fingers and toss them back into the salad bowl. Now, I'm slightly OCD from dealing with my father who is majorly OCD. (Think Monk, and you're about there). So this disgusted me. Add on the fact that I know restaurant employees are required to wash their hands, but this does not apply to the customers. So you have no promise this older gent has washed after his last bathroom visit or not.

When the waiter, if the guys at Country Buffet can be called waiters, came by and asked if everything was alright, I looked at him and shook my head. I didn't expect him to be able to do anything, after all, they cannot control their customers. But, I knew it would make me feel better to tell someone. So I told him what I had just seen.

He asked which bowl of salad, and promptly removed the whole bowl, disappearing back into the kitchen and appearing a few moments later with a different bowl of salad. He came back over and said, and I quote, "We didn't have any more of that kind of salad, but we've replaced the salad there with new salad."

Prompt.

I was stunned, and really, it made me feel good about eating in that place, to know they handle things in such a manner. I was really pleased.

Of course, if they look at it like I did, if someone gets sick off that salad, they can be blamed for poor hygiene codes or something, so it does make sense they would do something. Still, I didn't expect them to do anything and they did, so I was happy.