"Not only did they not do anything, the problems seemed to get worse," [Tim Hadac, spokesman for the Chicago Department of Public Health] said. "It was a surprising and disappointing lack of adherence to basic food safety regulation... We stopped counting fruit flies when they hit 200."The inspectors also found:]]>
The food court and an adjoining Starbucks will remain closed until Macy's figures out how to kill the fruit flies. A cleaning service has been hired to help. The food court is expected to reopen later today.
City closes Macy's food court [Chicago Tribune]
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Now some guy killed himself at this Macy's. They really want MF back in Chicago.
]]>I wish they would post all the food inspection reports in the newspaper then I bet things would clear up FAST! A few months back I reported one of our local grocery stores to the health department. There were mouse droppings all over the area where the bacon and packaged deli meats were, you could clearly see them on the packages as you walked by. I happened to catch the inspector on his cellphone when he was in town that day, out doing his inspections.He said he would defintely check it out. 2 weeks later I went back in to the same store and noticed the problem hadn't been cleared up.
How bad do things actually have to be before a place is shut down?????
]]>Hahahaha! NO! They weren't! That's why they have to go!!!
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Easy peasy.
1) Remove ALL the trash.
2) Put any food into sealed containers. Likely you should just throw out any fruit or veggies that don't live in the fridge. Keep one piece of fruit.
3) Clean all the surfaces with something as least as toxic as Windex.
4) Put the one piece of fruit, sliced open, in a pan in the oven.
5) Leave the oven door open overnight.
6) When you get up, close the oven and bake for about 15 minutes.
Trust me. One week's vacation + one forgotten banana = clouds of fruit flies. This works.
If I only had a dollar for every time I've said that...
]]>I say they got gnats that at striving on the moisture of the leaking sink and clogged floor drain. Mean Chicago gnats are not going to like being called fruit flies.
]]>I thought that salad I ate there last week was a little bit too crunchy.
]]>I didn't think anyone went to the State Street store anyway.
]]>Wonder if the fruit flies are wearing tiny, all-black outfits?
]]>Considering they had 2 backed-up drains, this sounds more like a drain fly infestation, than fruit flies.
We had the same problem in my apartment after our kitchen drain kept clogging up. You basically have to get rid of or contain all their food sources, clear out the drains, wash everything down very thoroughly, make sure you don't leave out any dirty dishes, and pour bleach or vinegar down the drain everyday. That should kill them!
Now some moronic animal-right activist is probably going to try and have the food-court declared a "sanctuary" for the endangered and previoulsy unknown "Macy fruit fly".
]]>Clearly this should be interpreted as a Biblical plague. Shop at Macy's and Jesus'll be pissed.
]]>Man, fruit flies are the worst (actually, that'd be rats and roaches, I presume).
My finacee and I were house sititng for two weeks, apparently we didnt leave the trash covered and returned last night to find that we had little hous sitters of our own.
1. Remove the food source.
2. Investigate to see if there breeding.
3. Set traps, in 24 hours you shoudl be good to go again.
Our mall is infested with garden cricket carcasses. They mate and die shortly after. Fruit flies seem to be immortal though.
]]>Hmm, how to kill fruit flies, how about throwing out all that rotten food!?
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