Just curious if anyone knows, has worked for, or work next to a restaurant that should be on Kitchen Nightmares. Don't name names or locations or anything, just the issues you've seen.
The reason I ask this is because of the restaurant next door to one of our store's just surprises me that it's still open. To some extent it's small town politics. The own knows people who are connected to people, who know more people. The part time health inspector shows up like clock work twice a year for a visual inspection, other than that you never see the person. If she finds a problem it's very easy to get out of it. For example one of our food coolers on a visit wasn't running up to par, it started having issues the day the health inspector showed up. It was waiting for repair. She noticed it, we told her we were waiting for repair, she wrote it up on her report, but never returned to check to make sure that we got it fixed.
So anyway the restaurant I know has a leaking roof it leaks everywhere, but it also leaks into one of there cooler, the exhaust fans at the back of the building are covered in grease that has not been cleaned off since I've been there. I mean it drips off the vents at times and ends up in the grease pile on the ground below. There's been numerous grease or sewer backup in which they didn't close for. People sleep overnight in the restaurant. There's a common room in the back. We throw old displays back there because it's really nasty back there. It's somewhat open to the enviorment, rain water ends up there, they push the mop water off their floors into this room, the ceiling is cracking, paint is peeling, etc. Needless to say they've been starting to store food there "to cool" but there's also the bread crumbs that they make that have been back there to days on end, which has really grossed us out, because honestly I'd store food in my basement before this room.
On top of that I mean we both have some of the same problems. We've got a bug problem at times, we've got the leaking roof. We spray for the bugs, and we fix and repair as we can, but we're surviving and making money, where as this restaurant is near closed. So I can only guess that they don't spray, or repair the stuff the customers can't see.
The reason I ask this is because of the restaurant next door to one of our store's just surprises me that it's still open. To some extent it's small town politics. The own knows people who are connected to people, who know more people. The part time health inspector shows up like clock work twice a year for a visual inspection, other than that you never see the person. If she finds a problem it's very easy to get out of it. For example one of our food coolers on a visit wasn't running up to par, it started having issues the day the health inspector showed up. It was waiting for repair. She noticed it, we told her we were waiting for repair, she wrote it up on her report, but never returned to check to make sure that we got it fixed.
So anyway the restaurant I know has a leaking roof it leaks everywhere, but it also leaks into one of there cooler, the exhaust fans at the back of the building are covered in grease that has not been cleaned off since I've been there. I mean it drips off the vents at times and ends up in the grease pile on the ground below. There's been numerous grease or sewer backup in which they didn't close for. People sleep overnight in the restaurant. There's a common room in the back. We throw old displays back there because it's really nasty back there. It's somewhat open to the enviorment, rain water ends up there, they push the mop water off their floors into this room, the ceiling is cracking, paint is peeling, etc. Needless to say they've been starting to store food there "to cool" but there's also the bread crumbs that they make that have been back there to days on end, which has really grossed us out, because honestly I'd store food in my basement before this room.
On top of that I mean we both have some of the same problems. We've got a bug problem at times, we've got the leaking roof. We spray for the bugs, and we fix and repair as we can, but we're surviving and making money, where as this restaurant is near closed. So I can only guess that they don't spray, or repair the stuff the customers can't see.
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