In a flu season, some places become the front line against germs. Churches, schools, and offices are a flow of people. Some of them are spreading the flu virus. Restaurants add shared flatware, drinking glasses, and table tops to the challenge.
“I’m a little bit neurotic,” Chip Joyner, owner of The Real Chow Baby, said. “From the time I walk into any place, I don’t touch the door handles.” He is a self-proclaimed germaphobe. “Anything that people touch has to be sanitized.”
Customers at the stir fry restaurant on Ponce de Leon in Atlanta say it’s exactly what they want from a restaurant owner in the middle of a flu epidemic. “They’re aware of what’s going on and they are trying to prevent other people from getting sick, customer Jose Moreira said.
“People say, Excuse me! I got a bent fork,” Joyner laughed, holding up a specially designed “touchless” fork.