I have seen the same crap going on where I used to work. Out of all the other dishwashers I have worked with (perhaps more than 50), I and only one other used to make a practice of washing their hands with SOAP and water before handling clean dishes. I have seen clean dishes being run out on a dirty cart, people smoking cancer sticks with the ashtray just above where the clean dishes came out of the machine, and people failing to wash after using the bathroom and then handling clean dishes. Never did anyone get written up or fired when I notified the managers that this was going on.
That is one more reason why I almost never eat out. Besides the monosodium glutamate they put in food without the customers knowing about it, the dishes are almost never handled properly. You have about a 4% chance that the dishwasher who handled the dishes used soap and water before handling them after handling dirty dishes (I always used soap and water for personal health reasons). And the servers rarely wash their hands after clearing dirty tables and before bringing out your food--I filled all the soap dispensers one night, had the next night off (a Saturday, which is busy), and checked the level of the soap in the dispensers before I came on that Sunday night. They were down less than 1 millimeter, everywhere--indicating that this practice of not washing one's hands with soap and water before handling your food is widespread.