Would it bug you to be served by a barefoot waiter/waitress?

Question

Would it bug you to be served by a barefoot waiter/waitress?

Answer 1

yea

Answer 2

If it were an outside setting, such as a bistro on the beach, no.  A nice dress up restautant, yes.

Answer 3

Um...yes on a normal day, unless it was like on a beach. But in any other restaurant its not normal...and its unsanitary...

Answer 4

yeah it would thay should be in full uniform including socks & shoes. No socks, No shoes, No service ;)

Answer 5

I'm a little more concerned about the safety of the waiter/waitress. Glasses break, you can drop stuff, especially hot or sharp stuff. It just seems more logical to wear shoes when you're running around in a restaurant all day... right?

(I don't particularly like other people's feet, either... just saying.)

Answer 6

depends on the restaurant. if I were at a steakhouse, yeah. A pub, no...

and..uh...what condition are her feet?

Answer 7

the restaurant was on the beach and..no problems at all .. :P and then waiters use hands to serve foods ;)

Answer 8

um... i guess not D:

Answer 9

yeah no one wants to watch someone serve them in bare foot. smelly feet n that

Answer 10

not if she was bare everywhere.

Answer 11

Not at all. I'm always barefoot myself. Bare feet are not gross or dangerous; germs do not jump up onto the food from the bare sole any more than from the sole of a shoe, or from the bare skin on top of a bare foot any more than from the bare skin showing in a sandal. For those concerned about foot odor, do you also object to sandals? Do they have air-tight sandals where you live? Bare feet don't smell unless you just took off closed shoes, which is where foot odor develops.

Injury isn't that likely, feet get very tough very quickly. I've not worked as a waitress but I've walked barefoot for eleven years, always and everywhere, indoors and outdoors, and I've never had a cut. The one thing about kitchens is that if a lot of stuff is dropped it could be slippery, and bare feet on food spills can be slippery indeed... but many of the fashionable, leather-soled shoes with heels I often see waitresses wear would be at least as bad or worse (because you would feel it only when you started to slip rather than feeling the mushy food underneath right away, and even a semi-high heel would increase the chance of a twisted ankle rather than just a bit of a slip). If I were going for safety against slipping, I'd say require rubber-soled footwear, not just single out bare feet as a no-no.

OSHA doesn't require footwear for all employees, see source. Customers aren't covered by OSHA at all and there are NO Health Department laws requiring footwear for customers either.

Answer 12

I fully agree with Sheriam!

Going or working barefoot in an Restaurant isn’t illegal, nor forbidden, nor weird!

Of course at work, 1 should have clean and somehow aesthetic looking feet!

I am running a very elegant Restaurant in Switzerland and don’t wear shoes there at all!

Except from a very conservative Club member complaint, I never had a problem so far!

If your general appearance & dress code is accepted, people get use to it and don’t care!

Safety, as said by Sheriam is definitely “NO ISSUS” for an experienced barefooter!!!!!

Answer 13

Yes, I would not dine at this type of place and I would tell the owner manager everyone I could why and how disgusting that is.....what person would be so rude to even do such thing..disturbing...

Answer 14

Yes it  would bug me, If they can't put shoes on, what else are not doing in the kitchen