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Judgment & ambiguity · When to escalate

Over two days, three kitchen staff have gone home with vomiting and diarrhea, and you can't tell yet whether it's a stomach bug making the rounds or something from your own food. When does this stop being an internal staffing problem and become something you must report and possibly close over?

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The moment there's a cluster of GI symptoms among food handlers, this stops being ordinary staffing — that pattern is the classic signature of a norovirus-type exposure, and my duty shifts from scheduling to containment.…

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