IFSEA Food Manager Exam Prep

Category - IFSEA Food Manager Practice Test

As a supervisor of a hospital cafeteria, how would you handle a line chef who presents to work with a sore throat and a fever?
  1. Allow them to work, but keep them away from food.
  2. Put them in the kitchen and don’t allow them to have contact with the customers
  3. Tell them to tough it out and do what they normally do anyway
  4. Send them home
Explanation
Answer: D - As a supervisor of a hospital cafeteria, you should send your line chef home when they present to work with a sore throat and fever. As a hospital cafeteria, you are automatically serving a high risk population; therefore the employee should be sent home as the consumers involved may have lowered or compromised immune systems. As a sore throat and fever are possible signs of influenza, which is a highly contagious virus, you could risk spreading the virus to the hospital patients either through direct contact with the food products or the patients.
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