Dropped Pizza On The Floor

Say a customer orders food at a fast food restaurant like a pizza place and they drop it on the floor by accident it being their fault would they have to pay for another pizza or does the restaurant give another for free.

Dropped pizza on the floor.

Even food that s. With so many meals consumed at home these days there are bound to be mishaps such as a spilled glass of milk or a sandwich dropped on the floor. Wondering if food is still ok to eat after it s been dropped on the floor or anywhere else is a pretty common experience. And it s probably not a new one either.

My nice hot pizza just came out of the oven and i was walking it home and it fell on the cement floor in the street on the bread side so nothing was sticking onto the floor. If i dropped it into a plague pit no i wouldn t pick it up he clarifies. Why you can eat food after it s been dropped on the floor. He and his team dropped slices of bologna and bread onto floors contaminated with salmonella let them sit for varying amounts of time and recorded exactly how many bugs moved from floor to food.

The 5 second rule is just wishful thinking bacteria can attach to food as soon as it hits the floor. And foods with wet surfaces like an apple slice pick up bacteria even more easily than things like a cookie. I think yes because the oven is like 500 degrees and th epizza is that temperature i doubt that bacteria could live on that pizza. When you drop a piece of food on the floor any bacteria living on the floor will adhere to it.

In fact he goes further. And it s probably not a new one either. So if you eat the food you ve dropped you re also eating any bacteria the food picked up. So it s a good time to revisit the age old 5 second rule this isn t the in bounding rule in basketball but a food hygiene standard in some households that states that there is a defined window where it is permissible to pick up food or.

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