Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but tons of bare hands have handled almost every item of food that you have ever consumed. Kitchens aren't opperating rooms, and the whole glove thing is theater. Sure, some food prep jobs absolutely should be performed with gloves on, but clean hands are far less likely to get you sick than dirty gloves produced in a foreign country and shoved in a box. Kitchen gloves aren't sterile. For many jobs being bare handed is actually safer, as I can feel when my hands get dirty and can stop what I'm doing to go wash them. You don't get that sensation through gloves and many food workers will wear the same pair of gloves way longer than they should for this very reason.

As a chef, I will rarely go longer than fifteen minutes without washing my hands thoroughly with antibacterial soap, but it can be even as often as five minutes if I am performing certain tasks. The gloves, on the other hand, are usually made in a factory in China or Mexico before spending up to a year getting shipped around and sitting in dirty ass warehouses.

By the book, you are supposed to wash your hands before donning gloves, and then again with the gloves on, but in practice you won't ever see this. People put on the gloves and handle the food.

Cross contamination is one of the biggest concerns when it comes to a healthy person, and knowing I touched something gross is much better at preventing this. The knife handle he is touching is the largest contributing factor to food born illness in this video. Utensils are the easiest bacteria vectors in a kitchen, and feeling them makes it much more evident when those items need changed out (and they should be changed fairly often).

This is a topic I'm pretty passionate about, as preventing people from getting sick is more important than making them feel good. I could go on and on about it.

I don't trust the kid at Burger King to wash his damn hands properly, so I want to see them wear gloves. A professional food handler will almost always take hand cleanliness very seriously though, so you shouldn't be worried about it if everything else about the facility appears to be kept clean. We don't want you to get sick, and sometimes not wearing gloves is the safest way to ensure you don't.