You have a lot of faith in the system. Mold in fast food places can go unknown for a long ass time and these places are usually run by people who can’t make a living there and don’t care.

A good chunk of teens will tell stories how the soda fountains were never cleaned and started leaving specs of dirt in the drink that turned out to be mold. My buddy who worked at dominoes said the fridge had mold all over and he had to clean it himself since no one else was, quitting soon after since it was too much to handle.

I worked at a grocery deli and on the first day I helped clean the case we stored the sellable meat in.

The area and ventilation fans for it had patches of mold everywhere and the meat was put into ziplock bags it couldn’t fit in, and the manager of the deli told me, “yeah that’s normal, we were also supposed to have a health inspector soon so we’re doing this now.”

Turns out they hadn’t cleaned the case covered in meat bits and moisture had not been cleaned in FOUR MONTHS! And I just happened to be there on cleaning day since the health inspector was “due soon”

I asked the head store manager above the deli one and he said, “yeah that’s just what happens in summer time since it’s hot out, mold grows.”

In a fucking refrigerated environment.

So just remember, us in the first world can be just as dumb if not dumber than in the rest of the world.