Something gross, I think.

[LakeArenal]

So... We have many open air restaurants that can be open with social distancing and masks until food arrives.

We wash our hands before entering. Thinks like ribs and burgers get messy right? When people leave they use sanitary wipes to wash the tables and the chair seat.

Not once have I ever seen them wipe off the salt and pepper shakers?

Am I being to fearful? I see the greasy hands salting food and leave them.

I have started carrying wipes for them.
Sometimes they seem pretty gross.

[Blue Owl]

1. Every restaurant I have been to has switched to the little disposable S&P packets

With no shakers, bottles, or other items on the table; and disposable paper menus...

[Nevilledog]

2. They should be cleaned. You're just being smart, not overly careful.

[Tipperary]

3. I have always been grossed out by things like that.

I never thought of myself as a germaphobe, but I guess I have always been one.

[LisaL]

4. I didn't use salt and pepper shakers at restaurants even before covid.

Seriously, bring your own little salt and pepper packets.

[LakeArenal]

6. Good idea.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. Even before the pandemic, I always worried about the salt/pepper shakers, the

condiment holders and the soy sauce bottle. The get wiped off once a day, if that.

[LakeArenal]

7. If that.... exactly.

[CottonBear]

8. My family & I haven't eaten out since February 2020.

We’re not going to eat out for the foreseeable future.

[LakeArenal]

12. Only the open air restaurants can be open.

[lame54]

9. Stay home

[LakeArenal]

14. Our reg place where I ask to clean shakers, is struggling.

Two hard working folks. A few of us risk dining to keep them in business. We love Marco and Carla like family.

[Heartstrings]

10. You have every right to be concerned....

Everything on that table should be replaced with freshly sanitized condiments between diners, or at the very least, have the condiments on the table sanitized after every customer.

[Miigwech]

11. Not wrong to think about your safety

I will not go to a dine in place because salt shakers are is not the only surface to worry about. The plate, glasses, flatware have been touched. Do the wait staff wash hands and sanitize menus, credit card holders or after busing dirty plates? You get the picture, too risky now.

[LakeArenal]

13. Ahhh menus too!!!