Hyde Park restaurant shut over failed refrigerator, lack of hot water, bugs

Between having fruit flies/"a cooler on the fritz" and something more severe, like infestations of cockroaches/rodents and a complete inability to store food at the right temperature.

Running a restaurant is hard work but that does not excuse having unsafe conditions. And ISD really only shuts a place down if it's really bad, as the Mayor's Food Court shows.

This is people's livelihood.

Then they should get their act together. My right not to get food poisoning trumps their "livelihood", and if they can't handle that, they should find another line of work.

Not everyone knows about the city's website. I also see no problem with exposing people/businesses for the work they're not doing. In this case, keeping a clean kitchen.

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Thank you Adam!

Someone ruined it for all of those other establishments in violation. Thanks for the tip about the mayor's site! ; )

then they should be doing their damn jobs. I work part time in food service and there is no reason why people can't clean and keep food properly.

I realize the public needs to know about the conditions and hazards of where they choose to dine.

Alright, then you're happy that Adam informed people about the potentially deadly conditions at this one?

The city does have a site where you can see all violations for any establishment in the city, so do you have to broadcast it and make it worse?

The city has a website...so, there's no reason to tell people what the city's website says. That's not exactly consistent. If you said that he's being inconsistent by selectively only posting a few things and not all of them...oh, wait, I see you're getting to that...

Not one place in this city hasnt had rodents, fruitflies or a expensive cooler on the fritz. This is people's livelihood.

And you're still wrong. Plenty of places operate without infestations, fritzy equipment, etc. They have their own methods of inspection as well as the city's and they NEVER appear on the ISD reports. In fact, the large majority probably never appear with a citation let alone a complete lack of hot water, improper temperature storage, and rodent droppings throughout the kitchen.

People's livelihoods stop where my possible death from botulism begins. Ok, actually, it stops well before that fortunately. If people wanted to keep their livelihood, then they should have done so before it reached the point where their kitchen has such major violations. Otherwise, why should we keep slumlords from renting out single-access sub-standard 1000 sq ft basement apartments to 10 immigrants? That's just effecting the slumlord's livelihood, man...who cares if their tenants would likely die in a fire. Also, their livelihood in this situation isn't unrecoverable. Fix the problems and reinspect them and they can go back to their livelihood. People still flock to Kupel's Bagels these days even though Adam posted about their "too many to count" mouse droppings on the raw dough back in 2012.

They don't deserve to operate a place like this, it should be clearly known so someone doesn't contact a major illness from a disgusting place like this. Restaurants like this is why Hyde Park has a bad reputation, and why we can't keep For Sale/Rent signs out of the windows.