We alerted customers about the mice. But today's discovery didn't affect the line that did continue to snake out the door.Eyewitness news heard about the mice from a passerby who saw 6 or 7 of them and called the news station. The cameras arrived with plenty of time to shoot footage of the rodents frolicking around the store. ]]> ABC7 Reports:"It doesn't look like it was on the food, just on the floor," said one of customers. "But it is still gross."
We talked to a former manager of Pinkberry, who wanted us to hide his identity, says this problem is much more than a few mice.Pinkberry promises to sanitize their restaurants and have had no health department violations since they opened about 6 months ago. Pinkberry has 3 New York locations and 16 locations in the Los Angeles area."I saw them in broad daylight in Koreatown ... a mouse ran right into the store," said "Jim."
He showed us photos of mice droppings covering food storage bins at the 82nd Street shop. He says when workers complained to supervisors, they were told to put down traps and clean up.
"They were asked to clean with bleach to cover the mouse area ... it was a huge problem and they just couldn't handle it," he said.
Ew! —MEGHANN MARCO
Mice on the loose in frozen yogurt store [ABC7 New York]
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You should be more worried about HUMAN excrement, saliva, mucus, and hair. eccchhhh.
]]>All the mice came over when they started tearing down walls. After they finished renovating the mice left and went back to the original stores. It's very possible to keep a place clean/rodent free. It just takes hardwork which is more abundant when you have a stake in the place versus being a minimum wage drone.
]]>As for food prep surfaces... I would recommend they just wash them in the morning before opening for business.... problem solved.
The Taco Bell was a bit worse... they had let things get a little too far gone...
If they were killing them and throwing 'em in the yogurt... now that would be gross.
]]>man, i want pinkberry now.
]]>My only request is that I never EVER see it. If I never see it, then I can pretend it doesnt exist, once I do, it's over the facade is ruined, almost like a spouse who know's they're being cheated on but doesnt want to know.
Dont Jerry Springer me eating establishments!
]]>Heck, I remember making coleslaw in a huge restaurant in the south. Some new employees freaked when they realized the cabbage was cut first into HUGE garbage cans(but always clean). Straights freak about the least things.
Couple mice won't kill ya... Taco bell one was bad though..
]]>I have never had Pinkberry & I read that they had legal issues in California because it is not really yogurt and cannot refer to it as such.
I have worked in restaurants here in NYC and my brother owns some. If you saw half of the things that went on in the kitchen, even in expensive ones, you would learn not to care either.
]]>This is nowhere near as bad as the swarm of rats frolicking about the NY Taco Bell a few months back.
What is it about America where everyone thinks restaurants need to be sanitized to the level of a hospital?
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