Our canteen was swabbed today. Store swab (aka internal - oo-err!) rather than an outside agency, but always nerve-wracking.
So we had a frenzy of cleaning.
We try to clean as we go, but are constantly so busy, it's easy to miss things.
Customers need to be able to rely on our hygeine being 100%, but if there are two people behind the counter and one is checking the rotisserie chickens for temperature you can bet the call will ring out, "Excuse me? Are you serving?" by the next customer to pitch up. They even get antsy if you take the time to wipe down the cheese station after serving unpasteurised cheese. As far as they're concerned they're only buying ham, so why should they wait?
Anyway we squeezed in as thorough a clean as we could despite it being constant, with what felt like occasional coach parties of customers arriving together.
Only to find the managers had to abandon their swabbing plans... because the store as so busy
So in a way it was all wasted effort because by this morning any evidence of our frenzy will be negated.