While a Poultry Inspector, (Off Duty) stood right there watching Popeye's unload boxes of chick off this truck and placed them directly onto the ground, they were clearly violating the law and here's evidence.
You cannot unload products directly onto the ground. They must be on a pallet of some sort. The Off Duty Inspector went inside to say something to the Manager and the Manager couldn't care less.
So when you're heading out to dinner this weekend, know one of the local restaurants aren't following the law and if you chip one of your teeth, it's probably from a stone in the parking lot!
Sir:
ReplyDeleteIs it OK to put a bag of groceries on the ground, porch, sidewalk, etc. when you open your house door, or must you have "a pallet of some sort." What if its a brown paper (not plastic) bag?
Please ask that "poultry inspector."
Can you explain how a stone in the parking lot (it looks like an asphalt surface, too) would get inside that very substantial packaging -- and please don't tell us that you know because you once ran a restaurant and put your chicken boxes on the ground.
And: don't we have more important concerns than this "problem"?
That's all well & good but be more worried about the conditions inside of the resturant...if the public REALLY knew how bad it was they would think twice....trust me I know,as a past employer of KFC.
ReplyDeleteNow I see why "GA" bemoans the "nanny state" -- this rule is a prime example. What's really importand is how the product is stored and handled in the building.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom of the box on the parking lot for a few seconds (or even 2-3 minutes) will not harm anyone, but lack of good cooling, vermin, etc. in the building will.
I see management of Popeye's follows the Blog. You should have fixed the situation yesterday when TWO Inspectors confronted you and you blew them off. It's a tough market but I'm sure you'll find a job at that Burger King next to Lowes. You may have to learn their language.
ReplyDelete----or a splinter from a pallet if you do follow the law
ReplyDeletecato owns the north one-don't know about south-the south one was so nasty the last time i was there, i just walked out. the last time i was in the north one, it looked all clean-but they need to turn the music down. couldn't hardly talk to the clerk.
ReplyDelete9:49 --
ReplyDeleteWho/what is "cato"?
Joe:
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think any of thses comments are by a manager at this place -- none of them suggests that its perfect. The theme is that you are making a mountain of a molehill.
Let's set the "stone" aside (since some people don't understand the point that you are trying to make) and replace it with another issue...It's obviously daytime and the (probably) refrigerated boxes are being placed onto the asphalt. Isn't asphalt known to be "hotter than the sun" in the summer during the daytime?! (Um,I don't actually mean that it's hotter than the sun.)
ReplyDeleteAint that the drug dealing Popeyes?
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ReplyDeleteDo you really think that the contact with the asphalt for a few seconds is going to have any effect -- isn't the cardboard case a good insulator???
8:05...I admire your candor. I was always an English chicken man, but needed a bucket for dinner when they were closed. Your old employer left me begging for death on my bathroom floor a few years back. That was when I just started rotoing my own chickens at home...Neither of my worst experiences with cheap tequila or Southern Comfort/Sambuca can even come close to that memory.
ReplyDeleteHealth department regulations are as follows. All foods must be kept at least six inches off of the floor. I would take that as at least six inches off of a parking lot as well.
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand why they unloaded it from the side door when most trucks have hydraulic lifts on the back.
the only ppl keeping the slopeyes in business is the old baysinger trailer park across rt 13 there. and we all know the population of that.i would rather eat barries version of a river mounds bar the slopeyes bird.
ReplyDeleteSoCo AND Sambuca together?No wonder you were puking
ReplyDeleteWhat the hell is the fuss all about. If the boxes were unloaded unto a pallet, how could the guy with the two wheel cart ever pick them up?
ReplyDeleteIf they were unloaded directly to the cart, then you would be complaining about that. An insulated, cold, card board shipping box will not be bothered by setting on the asphalt drive for 60 seconds.
As for the conditions in the restaurant, just tell Joe and he'll get on it immediately.
Enough already with this picky sh*t and let's get back to bashing Obama.
Totmom I was thinking the same thing hahaha it's never the alcohol
ReplyDeleteYou have to be very careful in this heat, I don't care how many restaurants you've owned. What might not hurt you or I could make the elderly, infant or someone with a weak immune system very sick.
ReplyDeleteI got some eggs delivered last week, I stuck a couple with a thermometer and they were 48º, moist proteins grow bacteria the quickest. Last summer we sent back every refrigerated item twice from a major food service supplier. Everything, eggs, cheese, meats, crab meat was all in the danger zone and they were refused.
I know at some stops they have to have the door open a long time, however the food must remain at a safe temperature.
You have to be very careful in this heat, I don't care how many restaurants you owned. I got some eggs delivered last week, I stuck a couple with a thermometer and they were 48º, moist proteins grow bacteria the quickest. What might not hurt you or I could make the elderly, infants or people with a weak immune system very sick. Check HACCP Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points.
ReplyDeleteLast summer we sent back every refrigerated item twice from a major food service supplier. Everything, eggs, cheese, meats, crab meat was all in the danger zone and they were refused. Had to do the same last week with some eggs.
I know at some stops they have to have the door open a long time, however the food must remain at a safe temperature.
Great point!And unbeknownst to many people,cold cuts like salami,cheeses,etc are dangerous to unborn babies when ingested by pregnant women-carries listeria.
ReplyDeleteIn order to keep refrigerated foods at the perfect temperature during deliveries, the store would need a sealed loading dock that opens directly into the store's coolers. Yeah, like that going to happen.
ReplyDeletePersonal grocery shopping habits poison more people than fast food restaurants ever will.
You buy lunch meats, fish, eggs and dairy products; put them in your car at one store and then go to 4 more places.
The other day I went to Walmart, parked beside a car with groceries in the back seat. 40 minutes later the car was still there and so were the groceries. Did I mention the windows were rolled up and it was 92 outside!
And I'll bet that if we checked your home frigs, most of you would fail the temperature and health standards needed for keeping food healthy!
One of the reasons our products were in the danger zone was because the driver had to move some of our products into the sun while he unloaded a delivery at another restaurant.
ReplyDeleteKnowing that we needed a couple products on that truck, I sent another employee to the restaurant where they were unloading to pick those few things up and that person saw our products sitting in the sun. This was flat out temperature abuse.
If everything had been loaded correctly and each order wrapped in shrink wrap, the temperature abuse may not have occurred.
As an italian I cook with chicken all the time. It does not hurt Chicken to rest on hot asphalt for a few minutes or so, because buy the time you cook it you won't be able to tell which pieces they were anyway.
ReplyDeleteSigned Sal Manila