Northern California restaurant informs customers about cockroach infestation
Published October 31, 2012
Associated Press
MILL VALLEY, Calif. – A Northern California eatery is giving its customers information that most restaurants go to great lengths to cover up.
Cafe del Soul in Marin County has posted a sign near its front door acknowledging that it's infested with German cockroaches.
The organic restaurant has also reported itself to the county environmental health services department and will be closed on Wednesday so a pest control company can go to work.
Manager Sandro De Oliveira told the Marin Independent Journal the cafe's owner wanted to be honest with customers. The newspaper reports that the restaurant also wanted to put pressure on the building owner to take action against the pests.
The cafe is in a strip mall that includes other tenants.
County officials say they will send an inspector
Cafe del Soul in Marin County has posted a sign near its front door acknowledging that it's infested with German cockroaches.
The organic restaurant has also reported itself to the county environmental health services department and will be closed on Wednesday so a pest control company can go to work.
Manager Sandro De Oliveira told the Marin Independent Journal the cafe's owner wanted to be honest with customers. The newspaper reports that the restaurant also wanted to put pressure on the building owner to take action against the pests.
The cafe is in a strip mall that includes other tenants.
County officials say they will send an inspector
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Reminds of a place we stopped at off US 70 near Wheeling, WV. We had seen the billboard along the road and found a nice little Italian restaurant, obviously newly opened, in a small town. They even had a good beer selection - I order a pint of nut-brown. We give our order to the nice waitress and sit and chat a while. Very nice looking Caesar salads come out. We are eating and talking and I happen to look down at my salad. There in the center, uncovered by my last bite, is a grasshopper, laying on its side. Nicely crusted with grated Parmesan. Now, grasshoppers don't have an ick factor with me. Bugs in general don't. There are a few, like roaches, that I'm not friends with if they come in the house, but other than that we're good. And this guy was perfectly placed, and so nicely rolled in Parmesan. I started to giggle. Waved the waitress over and quietly suggested she take the salad back. Her eyes got big and she swooped it away with a "I certainly will" and disappeared into the kitchen. My giggles are building and I keep seeing the cheese-dusted grasshopper laying so neatly in the center of the salad and every time I do the giggles get worse. I'm not upset with the restaurant - it's a nice place, clean and new. It backs up to a grassy hillside. I figure Grasshopper came hopping out of that grass, in through the back door, and into the lettuce, probably when the fridge door was open. The cold killed it and a busy kitchen putting out salads quickly just missed seeing it when they were tossing the ingredients. So I'm trying to be quiet. Which makes the giggles worse. A horrified manager comes out and starts apologizing like mad. I keep reassuring him that it's OK, I'm not upset. While laughing. And the manager starts getting aggravated. I guess he didn't think I was taking a horrifying situation seriously enough.
We had two very nice meals, gratis. I haven't been out that way since then, but I would be curious as to whether the place is still there. I'd stop by again.
Honesty, what a NOVEL concept! And I actually know where that place is, but I've never eaten there :-)
ReplyDeleteYou might want to wait until the complex itself gets cleaned up.
DeleteHonesty. I agree with OldNFO, its a concept that most business models are seriously lacking in. However, when its found...I can respect that. The fact that the restaurant came out and told its customers there's a problem, they're acknowledging it, reported the problem to the inspectors, and are voluntarily closing to have it taken care of, that's a restaurant I'd visit at least once. But whether I cared for their food, I WILL respect their honesty.
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah. I'd go eat there just because they did that. After treatment.
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