If you choose to have a foam cup, your cup for your break is your cup for the day. If you throw away your cup, you may purchase another at 50% off menu price
You may also bring in your own cup to use throughout the day. Click the picture for a great cup on Amazon.
Cup Requirements
Food service employees may drink from a closed beverage container with a tight-fitting lid and straw or handle.
This is only allowed if food handlers are careful to prevent contamination of hands, utensils, equipment and food.
A personal beverage must be kept and consumed in a designated area to minimize the possibility of transmitting germs present in saliva that can cause disease.
The lid and handle or straw helps to keep food safe by creating a barrier between hands and your saliva. But if these cups are not properly used, they can contaminate hands and ultimately the food you will be touching.
Avoid touching any part where the mouth contacts the beverage container, otherwise hands need to be washed before touching food or other food contact surfaces. In addition to having a tight-fitting lid and handle or straw, re-usable beverage containers must be in good repair and easily cleanable.
Before using the beverage container in the kitchen or food preparation area be sure to wash, rinse and sanitize the cup between shifts or as soon as the container becomes soiled where hands and surfaces come into contact
Why? - Public Health Reasons
Proper hygienic practices must be followed by food employees in performing assigned duties to minimize the possibility of transmitting disease through food.
Eating or consuming beverages by employees in food preparation areas is prohibited because of the potential of placing the fingers in or about the mouth or nose subsequently contaminating hands, food, clean equipment, utensils and single service articles.
Since excessive heat in some food preparation areas may dehydrate workers and present a medical risk, workers may drink from tightly covered containers with a handle or straw. The beverage container must be carefully handled to prevent contamination of hands and the food preparation areas.
Cup Storage
Cups may only be stored in designated employee drink areas
Cups may never be stored on counters, or in any food prep area of the restaurant, which is pretty much everywhere
If cups are found not in the correct areas, they will be thrown away
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