The Germiest Spot In A Restaurant Is Likely Lurking Right Beneath Your Nose

Going out to eat should be a treat, but we never know how clean the restaurant’s ice dispenser is or if the person preparing our food has washed their hands recently – and that can mean trouble.

Even though germs are everywhere and most of them are harmless, some of them can make us sick. So if there are simple strategies to stay safer when we’re dining out, why not use them?

That’s why Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, hosts of HuffPost’s Am I Doing It Wrong? podcast, asked microbiologist Jason Tetro, aka The Germ Guy, to brief us on what might be lurking at our tables and in the kitchens of even the fanciest restaurants.

Listen to the full episode by clicking here.

During our chat, we learned what to avoid when we’re ordering from the bar, the dirty truth about the “five-second rule” and the number one germiest part of the restaurant.

A few years ago, “I was going around to different places in the city, and I was looking for the germiest items, and when I would go into restaurants, it was always the menus,” Tetro told........

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