I am a very well trained piece of shit.

But I am not allowed to clean the upper part of the icemachine ( where all the slime happens) because of liabillity. I do my best to keep it clean but not all of it is possible so while its one of the cleanest icemachines I have ever seen its still dirty.

And I work in a very upscale cocktailbar in a very well regulated country.

I can't imagine this to not be the case. Every bartender I know is tweaked out of their mind. Even the ones who see bartending as an art.

I'm not knocking their skill set. But they'll be a rare breed if they think about bartending AND food safety at a high level enough to think about the cleanliness of ice.