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Originally Posted by Villages PL
This information comes from Annie's Mailbox, a regular column in the Daily Sun.
Annie said there was a study done about a year ago, at New York University, and it was found that dollar bills that were tested contained 3,000 different forms of bacteria. Some could cause the following:
1) gastric-ulcers
2) pneumonia
3) food poisoning
4) staph infections
5) acne
Also, there was fungi, plant pathogens, DNA from animals, and even minute amounts of diphtheria and anthrax.
I don't have a link to the study and I'm not looking for one because I think it's common sense that dollar bills naturally contain lots of different kinds of bacteria.
Is it safe to put tips on the table in restaurants? The waiters then pick up the tips with their bare hands and continue serving customers.
The health department is fussy about how the kitchen is kept, it must be just so, but don't they have anything to say about the filthy money situation?
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I always give a cash tip to insure against the server having to share.
I pay for the meal with a debit ccrd and handover the tip when I get my card back
I can't be worried about germs - there are so many transactions during the day it would be silly. I do use hand sanitizer often