Health Department cites Top Chef Contestant’s Burger Joint
2008-09-26 06:45:06 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Food News)
Queens, New York (CaymanMama.com) — A former season 4 Top Chef competitor’s burger joint has violated health codes that may shut his beloved restaurant down for good. According to a report by E! Online, Spike Mendelsohn’s Washington, D.C. burger joint, ironically named Good Stuff Eatery which opened this year, was slapped with citations for health code violations.
The District’s Department of Health cited the restaurateur’s burger joint for what has been called several “critical” errors which include storing beef in an alley behind the Capitol Hill café. Mendelsohn has denied any wrongdoing in the missteps and told D.C.’s WTOP news radio, “I know how to run a restaurant, and I know how to keep it clean. You can come right here and you can eat off the floor. I don’t run anything unhealthy.”
During a health inspection on Sept. 4, a report was issued that cited the an unsatisfactory storage technique, a surprising lack of hand-washing facilities available to restaurant employees, not properly sanitizing cutting boards and other surfaces and not separating and protecting food.
After initially denying having been cited whatsoever, Mendelsohn told WTOP, “Anything that’s in my alley is not there for more than five or seven minutes. It was meat that had just been delivered.” Incidentally, the Department of Health is keenly aware of the delivery processes of local restaurants and keeps notes and reports as to the unloading procedures. They found potatoes in the alley on September 5th.
On a more positive note, health department visits held on the 12th and 15th found corrections of the cited violations and no additional new violations.
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