Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) argued this week that restaurants should be able to opt out of health department regulations that require employees to wash their hands after using the bathroom.
On Monday, the freshman senator ended his talk at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) with a story to illustrate his philosophy on government regulations.
I was having this discussion with someone, and we were at a Starbucks in my district, and we were talking about certain regulations where I felt like maybe you should allow businesses to opt out, Tillis recalled. Let an industry or business opt out as long as they indicate through proper disclosure, through advertising, through employment, literature, whatever else. Theres this level of regulations that maybe theyre on the books, but maybe you can make a market-based decision as to whether or not they should apply to you.
Tillis said that at about that time, a Starbucks employee came out of one of the restrooms.
Dont you believe that this regulation that requires this gentlemen to wash his hands before he serves your food is important? Tillis was asked by the person at his table.
I think its one I can illustrate the point, Tillis told the women. I said, I dont have any problem with Starbucks if they choose to opt out of this policy as long as the post a sign that says We dont require our employees to wash their hands after leaving the restrooms. The market will take care of that.
Thats probably one where every business that did that would go out of business, he added. But I think its good to illustrate the point that thats the sort of mentality that we need to have to reduce the regulatory burden on this country.
Were one of the most regulated nations in the history of the planet, and I think if we go about it in a common sense way that that solves a lot of problems. It makes these other big problems that were talking about imminently more easy to solve.
Not wash hands after using the bathroom???? EEWW... just EEEW!!
The Spoon.....
A lesson on how consultants can make a difference in an organization.
Last week, we took some friends to a new restaurant, 'Steve's Place,' & noticed that the waiter who took our order had a spoon in his shirt pocket.
It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought our water & utensils, I observed that he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket.
Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter came back to serve our soup, I inquired, 'Why the spoon?'
'Well, he explained, 'the restaurant's owner hired Andersen Consulting to revamp all of our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour.
If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen & save 15 man-hours per shift.'
As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon & he replaced it with his spare. 'I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now. I was impressed, & then noticed that there was a string hanging out of the fly.
Looking around, I saw that all of the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies. So, before he walked off, I asked the waiter, Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string hanging from your fly?'
'Oh,certainly!' Then he lowered his voice. 'Not everyone is so observant. That consulting firm I mentioned also taught us how to save time in the restroom.
By tying this string to the tip of our you-know-what, we can pull it out without touching it & eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39%.'
I asked quietly, 'After you get it out, how do you put your 'you-know what' back in your pants?' 'Well,' he whispered, 'I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon.'
GOP hit piece, from the loony left. Shall we examine context, or should we just blast away?
From the article:
Dont you believe that this regulation that requires this gentlemen to wash his hands before he serves your food is important? Tillis was asked by the person at his table.
I think its one I can illustrate the point, Tillis told the women. I said, I dont have any problem with Starbucks if they choose to opt out of this policy as long as the post a sign that says We dont require our employees to wash their hands after leaving the restrooms. The market will take care of that.
So, for all of you who are interested in context, what the Senator is saying is that you can opt out if you want, but you'll have to put up a sign, essentially saying that your employees are pigs, which would probably prompt many people to refrain from frequenting the establishment.
The truth was so obvious.
Why ya gotta hate?
I've heard that one before....YUCK!
"Looney Tunes" is right!!
which would probably prompt many people to refrain from frequenting the establishment
It would me!!
If you opt out, and than have to put up a sign saying you opted out, isn't that just as much regulation as before?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Sounds like a more circuitous route to an equivalent conclusion. It took us more than 30 years to learn that "yes means yes" is a clearer message than "no means no".
If I had a restaurant, I'd require all my employees to wash their hands, regardless of the regulations.
When I go into a women's wash room,I want to see a sign that says..."All employees must wash hands before returning to work."
God point, I would like to see the no spitting in the food also!
It's just NASTY!!
So, isn't the regulation that they are opting out of replaced by a regulation to post a sign mentioning that they are opting out of the regulation....??? Stupid on the very face of it.
Don't worry Jwc2blue I got it and laughed out loudwhen I readyour quip.
HA HA HA HA!!
LOL !!!
I'm sure there are employees that fail to wash their hands after using the bathroom.....ICK!!
Please tip your waitress.
If she falls over, help her up.
ROFLOL!!
I think he needed a sarc tag.
His comment was taken out of context to say the least.