Poll: Hotel Drinking Glasses

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Be sure to watch the video: The Hidden Truth Behind Hotel Drinking Glasses

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First published December 2007

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The videos don't work. The register feature is lame.

I worked at a very well known hotel casino in NJ. Believe me this is true about the drinking glasses and coffee pots. We were told to spray bleach in the cups and coffee pots because we never had clean glasses. Needless to say I quit. Could not work at a place like that.

Only in a America would we waste time on drinking gasses. Yes it is horrible to see this as in America. What you should do is live a little, go to a third world country were they wash the dishes in the back ally and then put them on a rack to dry. Oh the rack is outside also. Go to a local dinning place in Malaysia, where there isn't a $10000 dish machine, there is a $3 dishwasher. America needs to get a reality check. America lots of reality shows that are a bunch of BS. So they washed your glass in the sink, you do it at home. if you do not have an electric dishwasher at home, are you doing the dishes right? Rinse the dishes, wash in a 160 degree soapy water, rinse again in 180 degree water then rinse again in 110 degree water with a sanitizing solution. If not, use the drinking glass in the hotel, you get food poisoning at home before anywhere else.

I had a similar experience at a property owned and operated by a major US-based hotel in Vancouver. I set up my own little sting when I realized they had not replaced my coffee cup after my first use (it was noticeably chipped). Each of the four subsequent days I was a guest of the hotel I would dirty the cup and leave it on the nightstand. On one occasion I even left the cup with a shoepolish rag submerged in dirty water. At the end of each day I would come back to the room and see the same cup wiped down and put back in place with the coffee service. The hotel assured me that they have procedures in place to prevent this but I now have confirmation that this was likely not an isolated event.

This video does not surprise me at all. I used to drive a limousine as a second job and we "washed" the champagne glasses in between runs with windex and a paper towel. I'll never drink champagne in a limo! I've also seen bartenders in busy bars wipe out dirty glasses with just a towel and reuse them.