I can imagine the pile of gloves that are going to be sold, and now have to be disposed of.
What problem is this is supposed to solve?

It helps liberal do-gooders feel better about themselves. If it saves one child in California, it is worth it.

Rights? We don't need no stink'in rights.

Good point CrescentParkAnon. So this generation worry about a cigarette butt left on the beach not made of plastic, is 99% smaller than any glove. And gloves will fill the landfill for the next 100 years.
Mama Mia. These people

Mr.Recycle - I doubt this has anything to do with Liberal do-gooders, more than likely it has to do with growing the market for rubber gloves and making money - crookedly. Being a Liberal, and a do-gooder as much as possible, I really resent your never-ending posts that always have to take a swipe at Liberals, whom you clearly know nothing about and don't do any research on as regards whatever story you happen to be barfing on at the moment.

The editors here seem to let you get away this, and you constantly do it. Can we please delete any post that takes an unwarranted and insulting tone for no reason against some group other than the poster's own ignorance and rudeness ?

Crescent Park Anon -- Thank you for your post. I'm proud to hold Liberal values.

These constant nonsensical attacks on Liberals are an absurd throwback to Joseph McCarthyism -- Very unAmerican to say the least.

Doubt this is a liberal thing; agree it's a big business thing.

Seems like a difficult law to enforce. I would guess it's difficult to wear gloves while rolling sushi. They are working to reverse the law:

"However, less than two months after the law was enacted, Assemblyman Richard Pan of Sacramento proposed on Monday an emergency legislation, AB 2130 (a.k.a. Retail Food Safety law), that would change the language of the law and reverse it. Pan told KPCC that the original food glove law "was not turning out the way that those of us who helped work on the legislation thought" it would.

If passed, the legislation would go into effect before July 1, and would change the state health code from prohibiting bare hands to touch the food to "minimizing" contact, reported the Sacramento Business Journal and KPCC."

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When are the loons out there going to roost! Stupid idea!

This is just another way for the state to hassle bar owners. Blame the people who drink too much and drive for this one. The state has been gunning for bar owners for eons.

Look at how many Palo Alto restaurants are actually tiny little restaurants with huge bars--it's their way of getting around the laws regarding no bars in Palo Alto.

California bar owners simply have to get around this one way or another....it is a petty and stoopid little law!

"Look at how many Palo Alto restaurants are actually tiny little restaurants with huge bars--it's their way of getting around the laws regarding no bars in Palo Alto."
Which Palo Alto restaurants have huge bars and small eating areas. Please provide a list to back up your claim.
Also provide a link for the law that bars are banned in Palo Alto. And please explain how Antonio's nut house and Scotty's bar ( for example) are open for business?????

Having got a c diff infection after dining at a local restaurant, I totally support the glove law.

Also -- I have NEVER seen a bartender wash their hands before making a drink. And I have actually seen waitstaff in the Ladies Room who have not washed their hands after using the toilet.

Bring on the gloves.

Neighbor- not sure what a"c diff" infection is, but how do you know y.ou got it from a local restaurant? Anyway, the law is DOA and is about to be repealed. Bartenders will also not wash their hands between each drink they prepare.

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Regarding c. Diff:
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"Illness from C. difficile most commonly affects older adults in hospitals or in long-term care facilities and typically occurs after use of antibiotic medications."

You probably had something else. But tell us how you knew it was C. Diff and how you know it came from the restaurant

Your government in action. What, did the glove manufacturers lobby our representatives and lavish $$$ to get this law passed?
Also, for those who loves gloves...I heard they take their dirty hands and use them to put the gloves on, thereby contaminating the gloves.
It is true money is dirty; why can't a food or bar establishment have one person designated to handle all the money.
There will be zillions of these gloves in our landfill soon.

About the Liberal comment. Mr. Recycle's point may have merit if the ones voting this and over crazy ideas are in fact liberals. Case solved.

Antonio's Nuthouse has a taco/burrito business inside. Scotty' s has a few tables for food. Remember left at Albuqurque? Blue Chalk Cafe? NoLa's? Lavande? The Patio? All have/had itty bitty restaurantsand large, noisy bars. Miyake gave a new definition to "sushi bar".

Why hassle people, neighbor?

Got to wonder if there is any evidence that people are getting sick from food prepared by bartenders--such as from olives or cherries dropped into drinks?

If not--what's the beef?

Got to wonder if someone on high is not going to recognize that bartenders are breathing within twenty-four inches of the drinks they are preparing. So maybe it's time to require them to wear a mask in order to reduce the possibility of the transfer of any number of contagious diseases.

Maybe it's time to replace the bar tenders with machines that read credit cards, dispensing mixed drinks without any human contact?

Getting a drink and not having to tip would be nice.

"Maybe it's time to replace the bar tenders with machines that read credit cards, dispensing mixed drinks without any human contact?

Getting a drink and not having to tip would be nice."

You're on to something here. There are machines that can cook and serve fast food now. Hopefully this will be next ;)

@CrescentParkAnon - The state is run, top to bottom, by liberals. At best they run a nanny state, at worst, they are corrupt and on the rubber glove payroll. Take your pick.

Stop this irrational and uneducated "liberal" attacks. They are total nonsense and seem quite totalitarian. Basically, derogatory use of the term reeks of Joseph McCarthy.

I am proud to be a liberal.

> Liberals ..

Liberals are people who believe they know what is better for other people than other do for themselves .. they have a propensity to want to control other peoples’ lives—like ordering them to stop using the word “Liberals”.

> reeks of McCarthyism

During Joe McCarthy’s like time, the “Communism”, a cancer on the human race, grew in strength so that it controlled the lives, and fortunes, of about 25% of the world’s population. It’s stated goal was worldwide domination. By the 1970s, about 100M had been killed, or died because of, “Communism”.

Sen. McCarthy did not want to see that happen here. Perhaps the Senator crossed a couple of lines trying to root out Communists from places like Hollywood—but compared to the millions the Communists killed forcing their system of total control on the peoples of Russia (FSU), Eastern Europe, China, Vietnam and North Korea—the Senator’s methods seem almost church-like in retrospect.

Well, the gloves have definitely come off for this discussion :) :) :) .

Having worked in resturants in my past, the best way to keep things clean is to only work with food, frequently wash your hands, keep your hands away from your face, wash hands after the rest room (a "should be" no-brainer)don't go near the dishwashing area without washing hands afterward and don't cough on anything. All these things should be taught in culinary school and/or be taught to the staff daily by the chef or the manager of the restaurant. In some states staff have to take and pass a food handling class before they are allowed to go to work in a kitchen or a dining room. I recall a study being done where bare hands and gloved hands were tested for contamination. In some cases the gloved hands were worse. They don't get changed every time you touch something other than food (taking money at a cash register for example) and they hold on to "stuff" just or more than a bare hand - there are microscopic pores in the glove that gather and hang on to food bits and germs. Maybe wearing gloves and washing your hands with gloves on every 30 seconds might make things sanitary? I doubt it. Basic safe food handling and training is what makes the most difference. When you cook and eat at home are you wearing gloves or washing your hands all the time after handling things? Go ahead, cough and wipe your nose and then go make that salad!

Wendy says "Go ahead, cough and wipe your nose and then go make that salad!" She can do that with her salad at home, but not with my salad at a restaurant.

I am really amazed at the low quality of interactions posted in this Time Square Post. It is hard to believe that the writers are educated adults living in our very cultural city of Palo Alto. Every time I open this, I know I will find bickering and sarcasm. No matter what the topic is. Its getting tirening.

Dear Neighbor -

I was facetiously refering to cooking at home. I guess that was a bit hard to understand. The whole paragraph above that facetious comment about cooking at home (perhaps you wear gloves when making your salads at home) was about training, good restaurant standards and how thorough the guidence is by chefs and managers. Because truth be told, dirty hands and dirty gloves are the same thing. Dirty gloves do not prevent anything more from being transmitted than dirty hands. As I stated, gloved hands may look like things are cleaner but in fact, if the gloves are allowed to get dirty with lack of good food handling practices, they are no cleaner and may be worse and dirtier. Gloves can give everyone a false sense of cleanlines if not used properly. It is actually easier to keep one's bare hands cleaner. Hope that clears up my facetious statement.

No such word as Palo Atltan or Mountain Viewen or Sacramentoen.
And
What is "Tirening"?

We have bars here? I thought it was all chain restaurants and places where you can exchange a 20 for 3 ounces of wine. Where are there bars? I want to go there.

This glove thing has soooooo much opposition to it as well as voluntary non-compliance, thatI cannot imagine that it will not be repealed fairly soon.

It is simply impractical, expensive, and causes one more non-biodegradable waste problem.