yes some drool or a couple of Sneezes goes great with a salad... Always loved watching people pick
and eat toppings..

I sometimes have stopped and watched people doing weird things at salad bars , sometimes it can be like a gross reality show. I never cook but I eat a lot of salad , it’s just as easy to get different packaged or non packaged salad mix and add some other vegetables.I have a little tip so you don’t end up with some leftover, I just eat it all day , I grab a handful of greens even in the morning , when I come home I grab some and eat it , you don’t just have to have a regular salad , you can eat it all day

Ohiobuckeye
 

I’m from Ohio too. Personally the stores in Florida that do have salad bars I don’t eat out of them because I’ve seen people cough while getting a salad & sneezing. So naw, no way I would eat at one, restaurants are bad enough. I do at Texas Roadhouse because they’re ice cold so that’s telling me it comes straight from the Frig. yea I know someone could cough or sneeze on it but I guessing it gets to my table as soon as it comes from the Frig. Store salads sit at counters all day, yuk!

Some years back in a Golden Corral, watching a child use his hand to hold back corn whilst tipping his full plate sideways to drain off the mixed juice into the soup turned me off of all those types of things forever.

Good luck on your quest and if it ever tastes a bit funny, you'll know why.

Please this is NOT the North. This is Florida.

Its all in your head
 

Interesting people freak over salad bars but not about the Chinese Buffets which are very popular. I have eaten at both my entire life and never got sick.

This paranoia is not backed up by government health agencies.

The salad bar is actually much cleaner as no one touches your dishes or silverware.

Do you really think that servers dutifully wash their hands before they set a table or bring out your food after they have bussed a table, coughed into their hands or touched their face?


Per the CDC 2015

The most common cause identified was related to improper cooking with “poor temperature control”, “insufficient time or temperature while cooking or heating”, “improper holding temperatures”, “eating contaminated raw, undercooked or under processed foods”; ‘cross contamination’ or ‘inadequate food preparation causing proliferation of the pathogen’.

I could only find one lawsuit based on a salad bar:

The Milwaukee Health Department has implicated Sizzler as the source of the E. coli outbreak and has narrowed the likely food that contained the deadly bacteria to improperly washed watermelon served from the restaurant's salad bar that likely was cross-contaminated with uncooked ground beef. He tested positive for the deadly bacteria and was hospitalized for five days.

Have you heard of Covid? People spread things by touching and with salad bars they touch everything.

And you know what feeds at a trough!

No salad bar - best news I heard today

Can't understand why anyone would eat that garbage.

Touching rarely, if ever, spreads covid...

And bacteria