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June 4, 2009
unsanitary restaurants
There seem to be several new restaurants opening every month here in Bk, especially in fort green, where I live. I love to eat in different restaurants and will try pretty much anything. But I have issues with unsanitary restaurants.
Recently, some friends and I went to Habana Outpost for drinks and a bite to eat, I had my drink but refused to order from their truck like kitchen because, just watching them work, I can only image how they work behind the scenes. In fact, I glad I didn't eat there because my friend had stomach cramps for three days.
So, out of curiosity I did a search on the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene website. and WOW! what a consistent record of unsanitary practices they have. apparently the fines and being shut down by the city doesn't detour the owners Sean Meenan and Lopeti Etu from neglecting the basic rule of owning a restaurant, practice safe hygiene! what's more offending they are selling this as a environmentally restaurant.
According to the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE'S last 3 inspections Habana outpost received 164 sanitary violations. This is outrageous and dangerous!
THIS IS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHS WEBSITE
HABANA OUTPOST
757 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN 11217
718-858-9500
05/19/2009
757 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN 11217
Inspection Date: 05/19/2009
Violation points: 94
Establishment Closed by DOHMH. Violations were cited in the following area(s) and those requiring immediate action were addressed.
Sanitary Violations 1.Evidence of rats or live rats present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
Sanitary Violations
1.)Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained.
2.)Plumbing not properly installed or maintained; anti-siphonage or backflow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly.
• Improper personal hygiene practices and poor food-worker health.
• Improper hand washing and bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods.
• Improper cooking, holding, and re-heating temperatures.
• Cross-contamination of food and food equipment.
• Food from unapproved sources.
Food Service Establishment Inspections:
Bureau of Food Safety and Community Sanitation (BFSCS) Public Health Sanitarians (PHS) conduct unannounced annual inspections of food service establishments (FSEs). During inspections, PHS's evaluate a FSE's conditions and practices and identify risk factors for food-borne illnesses. These risk factors include:
• Improper personal hygiene practices and poor food-worker health.
Improper hand washing and bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods.
Improper cooking, holding, and re-heating temperatures.
•Cross-contamination of food and food equipment.
•Food from unapproved sources.
Sanitary Violations 1.)Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained.
2.)Food contact surface not properly maintained.
3.)No facility available to wash, rinse, and sanitize utensils and/or equipment not provided.
I hope for our community well being, they cleaned all the rats out of there.
Places like this should not be allowed to remain open nor be accepted by our community, they are a disaster waiting to happen. I guess it is a good thing they have a medical center not far on Dekalb to pump out stomachs.
Comments
Yeah, we got already. Are you going to be posting this exact message every 12 hours so that it can be listed close to the top of the page in the forum section? For the love of science, I hope not. We get it already.
Posted by: CookieCutterBrownstone at June 4, 2009 9:02 AM
www.onehansonplace.com scooped this story in a hurry
Posted by: ltjbukem73 at June 4, 2009 9:07 AM
Are you going to look up violations for every restaurant that you go to now? If so, I doubt you'll be eating out ever again. Look up FDA allowances for what's in the peanut butter you buy at the market.
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Posted by: daveinbedstuy at June 4, 2009 9:18 AM
Do you own a neighboring restaurant or do you live nearby and are tired of the crowds. Yawn.
Posted by: Putnamdenizen at June 4, 2009 10:02 AM
Finally, someone has decided to write about all these unclean restaurants in our borough, trying to make a quick dollar while ignoring our state sanitary laws. There are several small chinese restaurants in the slope that on a slow day, you can see the cooks smoking and playing in their noses outside.
Posted by: sacallis11217 at June 4, 2009 10:48 AM
you do not have to order from their truck.
Just get a clean hamburger or taco from outside your bun
or a hotdog from the vendors on the street
or even better move to a clean mountain filled spot
where you can grow your own crops
and watch episodes of law and order on dvd
far far away from this nasty city
Posted by: dutchman at June 4, 2009 9:36 PM
Seems like we allowed our standards to drop a little bit too much or we are just so used to eating garbage we can't tell the difference.
Apparently, the state of New York think this is of concern, otherwise they wouldn't be so strict on their health code. I have many friends of mine who opened restaurants and they are the first to admit that they are strict on enforcing sanitary laws.
A few weeks ago, I ate at a small chinese restaurant on fulton and oxford, I think. It was next to Cakeman Raven (best red velvet cake I tasted yet) anyway, when I opened the lunch container and shuffled around with my fork, I found rat feces. Went back to show them and ask for my money back. They didn't argue with me, she just looked at me and quietly gave my money back.
Maybe this bratte character ought to do a little more research into all these restaurants here in our area, some kind of a rating like they do in california... Or was just on the Habana?
comme meme, 164 violations c'est beaucoup.
Posted by: cbrennan at June 5, 2009 11:55 AM
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