An important correction of fact here: it is not possible for kitchen workers to transmit HIV through food preparation. Even if an untreated HIV-positive person with significant viral load bled into a salad from a cut finger, for example, no risk of HIV transmission would be present.

This is an old myth from the 1980s and '90s that should finally be put to rest. You can't get HIV through casual contact, not even when blood is present.

In the entire history of the pandemic, no such transmission has ever been documented. Epidemiologists and virologists tell us we don't need to worry about that kind of transmission.