Not when you spend a week on the loo, because someone had forgot to wash their hands cos they'd never been on a Food Hygiene course.

Oh! You beat me to it Suzy and much better put than the rather vulgar expression that I had in mind.

its a good thing.... anyone who touches food that is to be sold to the public should have a valid Food Handlers Certificate!

Its a half day course...  and has to be refreshed every year...  and like Suzy says... it teaches the basics... wash your hands... don't put raw meat near cooked meat... etc

I know! And in a zoo of all places!

Here's a link to a Hygiene Course which you can do online in about two hours. It costs £25 plus VAT and the cerificate is sent the next working day. I have no need to take this course so you should check it out first.

See that's the thing, they have their Food Hygiene certificates and health and safety certificates, but these food guys wanted some sort of evidence that they have the ability to make a sandwich.

They are allowed to make tea's, coffee's, hand out slices of cake, feck even warm up sausage roll, but because there's no proper 'chef' to speak of, they can't make sandwiches.

Then may be there have lots of complaints. How close is the kiosk to elephant poop?

No elephants I'm afraid

I don't think its received any complaints, it would have been shut down by now if it had. I'm not even directly involved with the restaurant, but I'm the one getting the complaints over it serving 'no food'.

I know. A restaurant that serves 'no food' is a valid cause for complaint.

...but why me? I haven't done anything wrong, its not my fault....

Think carefully. Have you recently not given up your seat on a bus to an elderly/pregnant person?

If it's not food hygiene certificates required, maybe the restaurant has to be registered with the British Sandwich Association, which once joined, their logo and stickers can be displayed. Utterly ridiculous if this is what is required - this country's authorities are fixated by carrying out health and safety issues to the ultimate. Eventually, everybody will be required to wear padded clothes in case we bump into anything.

Anyway here's a link to more details of the membership 'benefits'.

*shrugs*...   I used to work for a vending company..   the operators (the people that go round and fill up the hot drinks vending machines) had to have food handlers certificates.   

there was an uproar when this first came in...  "why?" they shouted...

So.. me and my boss went round and did spot inspections on the machines.. including water testing.... and took swabs....

we found  e coli in 2 machines and legionella in another one.

and one machine that had this big glob of black jelly hanging from one of the internal coffee spouts.  (that operator was disciplined)....

Needless to say I never use drink vending machines!

Never heard of a sandwich course?

hahahahahaha!

I do love the flimsy associations...

Ewwwww - neither will I from now on

Perhaps they should start calling it a cafe.... it seems a bit much to be calling it a restaurant when it only served sarnies anyway

This is true, it is known as the 'Jaguar Restaurant', but due to the remission all the chefs had to go.

Is that what you meant to say?

....errrrrm....I want to say 'yes', but seeing as you've asked me, I may fear I used the wrong terminology. *feels dumb*

Either way, cut backs, redundancy etc. That's why we have no chefs. (we are a very small, poor zoo )

It would make more sense to use an outside caterer/sandwich supplier and put a cold shelf somewhere. Possibly the kiosk person could sell them?

I'm busy enough, being on the internet using facebook and posting on this forum thank you very much.

That made me chuckle

 btw.....what animals can we see at your small zoo rawky?

I'm going to hazard a wild guess and say this:
There are over 200 animals at Dartmoor Zoological Park: from tiny stick insects to Ben their Brown Bear or Solomon their Lion, all set in over 30 acres of beautiful parkland. Also meercats, complete with webcam, but I think you have to be a member for this.
And I wonder if there could also be some Rawky - Kanga - Roos, but I couldn't see any on their website.

Ben their Brown Bear.....

Solomon their Lion....

as in just ONE of these animals!!  

Oh god that is soooo sad!  

We have a big zoo here... and I am not especially keen on it, even though it claims to be bang into conservation and stuff.   They had a brown bear who was on prozac for the last 5 years of its life!

That's just the hype on their website. Looking at their gallery of photos they have other lions and bears.

phew!!!

I was about to go on another mission!

"They had a brown bear who was on prozac for the last 5 years of its life!"...ref. ditty


Wow, that's really sad  Thanks for the info. El Loro.