The next time you go to a salad bar – take your own tongs. The dirtiest spots in a restaurant...

Restaurants are public places so it may come as no surprise that they’ve got public germs...

Unfortunately, those germs are on items we can’t avoid. Here are the dirtiest spots you’ll be hard pressed NOT to touch:

1. Your seat

2. The menus

3. Lemon wedges

4. Salt and pepper shakers

5. The table

6. The rim of your glass

7. Bathroom door handles

8. Bathroom faucets

9. Ketchup bottles

10. The salad bar thongs

If that grosses you out, don’t feel bad. You probably picked up even more germs at the gas station. The handles of gas pumps were found to be some of the filthiest things out there.