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Fancy food isn’t safe food: Ritz-Carlton edition
Jen Chung of The Gothamist writes that if you’re spending $14 on soup or $10 on a side of spinach (let’s not get into the $47 veal chop), you’d probably hope that the restaurant would have a New York...
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Hot New York pizzeria Don Antonio closed by health dept
A new New York pizzeria, Don Antonio, has already been shuttered by the Dept. of Health. Eater reports a tipster spotted the yellow sign on the door yesterday, and when an Eater operative went by to...
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Popular NYC kosher restaurant Taam-Tov shut down by health department
Taam-Tov, the popular Diamond District kosher eatery, was shut down by the New York City Health Department after inspectors found a glut of violations Oct. 11. DNA info reports the Russian-kosher joint...
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Glaser’s Bake Shop in NYC closed after city inspection shows ‘severe vermin...
Health inspectors have shuttered a beloved century-old German bakery in New York City after spotting a “severe vermin infestation” during a surprise visit Friday. Glaser’s Bake Shop, which previously...
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NYC Salmonella cases rise in 2012 despite restaurant letter grades
Restaurant inspection grades do not reduce rates of foodborne illness – not in any scientifically credible and measurable manner. Publicly available grades, like the A, B, C of LA and New York City, or...
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NYC letter grades on plates? They’re flying off shelves but city wants an 8% cut
Church, mafia, university: everyone takes a cut, and there are fewer people to actually create (some will rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen). According to the Daily Mail, a popular...
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Wendy’s meltdown in NYC?
An astute reader from Manhattan (New York, not Kansas) notes that a Wendy’s restaurant in at 335 Fifth Ave, in the shadow of the Empire State Building, was closed back in mid-Sept. He writes: “What...
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Fancy food isn’t safe food: Ritz-Carlton edition
Jen Chung of The Gothamist writes that if you’re spending $14 on soup or $10 on a side of spinach (let’s not get into the $47 veal chop), you’d probably hope that the restaurant would have a New York...
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Hot New York pizzeria Don Antonio closed by health dept
A new New York pizzeria, Don Antonio, has already been shuttered by the Dept. of Health. Eater reports a tipster spotted the yellow sign on the door yesterday, and when an Eater operative went by to...
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Everyone’s got a camera: NYC-market-worker-boot-on-fish edition
Ciara McCarthy of Patch reports a Chinatown fish market has become the latest Internet sensation. A video filmed by a customer shows a worker climbing on a tray of fish, apparently to reach an...
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How should restaurants be inspected in Italy?
The purpose of this study was to elaborate a checklist with an inspection scoring system at national level in order to assess compliance with sanitary hygiene requirements of food services. The...
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Fancy food isn’t safe food: Ritz-Carlton edition
Jen Chung of The Gothamist writes that if you’re spending $14 on soup or $10 on a side of spinach (let’s not get into the $47 veal chop), you’d probably hope that the restaurant would have a New York...
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Hot New York pizzeria Don Antonio closed by health dept
A new New York pizzeria, Don Antonio, has already been shuttered by the Dept. of Health. Eater reports a tipster spotted the yellow sign on the door yesterday, and when an Eater operative went by to...
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