by INFORUM
How safe is the food you’re eating?
September 3, 2011 at 7:00 pm in INFORUM
Restaurant inspection results run the gamut; 23 cited for at least
half a dozen critical violations in 2010-11
FARGO After working in the buffet capital of the world, former Las Vegas chef Derek Kinoshita is admittedly “very anal” about food safety. Continue Reading
I quit working at a place a few years back cause it was SO NASTY – I’m surprised they’re not on there.
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Now we know why Casa Ramos is closing.
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Not surprising about the Coral. When I lived in the south they along with the Waffle House were two of the nastiest places for finding unwelcome objects in your food.
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Why did you list just these two? There must have been other ones with violations. It doesn’t seem fair. I think they should have been cited and it is going to hard on their business.
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Did you read the article or look at the chart.. One of the two I listed was the worst offender. Why wouldn’t I talk about the one 9 Critical and 33 non-critical violations within 5 inspections.
If you are getting more than one critical violation per inspection, you have something wrong going on in your restaurant. And quite honestly it makes my stomach churn because I’ve eaten there.
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I sure wish the Royal Fork would have held out longer. The Golden Corral’s food is horrible. Now that the Royal Fork is gone we don’t have a good place the get a variety of food at one place.
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Gee, Im kind of glad we still have Royal Fork here in Minot. I like the Golden Corral(Bismarck) but then no restaurant is perfect either. Eat at your own risk!!!
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Whoa apparently everyone at the Drunken Noodle is drunk.
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For whatever reason my parents think that Golden Coral is fine dining and is the destination of choice when coming to Fargo. However, after my last visit which included a restroom complete with feces-covered walls, I vowed to never set foot in that place again. The inspection results only validated what I had already assumed.
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Mav, I don’t think he was talking to you. I believe he was directing his questions at the author. And what chart? Is it not listed on the mobile site?
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If you can’t read PDF’s on your mobile you may not be able to see the link. But there is a several page break down of which establishment, how many inspections, how many critical violations, how many non-critical violations. For anyone that doesn’t know a critical violation is something that could make the public ill such as food kept at an incorrect temperature.
As for who he was talking to.. The only assumption I could make is that he was talking to me, because he directly replied to my post.. If he wasn’t talking to me.. no harm no foul.
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There’s a link to a full PDF chart under “More” next to the article showing all the rankings and results. Maybe it doesn’t show on the mobile app?
There’s also a full page rundown of them all in the paper copy of the Forum today.
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Sorry, I don’t see direct replies either on mobile. They’re all at the same bracket. I’ll have to check out the charts on my computer.
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All of Concordia’s are on the Moorhead chart. They did very well.
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It does not surprise me that Kinoshita is hard core about food safety after working in Las Vegas. Before anyone makes jokes about kitchens in Las Vegas you should know that Clark County is real hardcore. There are kitchens in Grand Forks that would be closed on the spot if they were Las Vegas. A quick list of types of restaurants closed in Las Vegas include:
IHOP
McDonalds
Sonic
Dominoes
These were closed on the spot. The Golden Feed Trough would have been closed on the spot in Las Vegas unlike Fargo.
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I’m disappointed in Area Voices. Where are all of the people against government involvement and socialism? I can’t believe the socialist “health department” thinks they can come in and rate restaurants on perceived cleanliness. Where’s the call for less regulation??? If a restaurant wants to be dirtier than the one down the street the “free market” will take care of it. Don’t use my tax dollars to tell me where I’m less likely to get sick! The Tea Party should be all over this!
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If I’m reading the article and viewing the documents correctly, I don’t recall any health departments shutting down any establishments in Fargo. My guess is the free market is going to use their wallets to severely impact the viability of certain establishments though. Your voice, as part of the free market is helping spread the word.
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Yes. As we all know, when one form of regulation is good for society, all regulation must also be good for society.
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Fargo Forum,,, PLEASE stop putting the most disgusting pictures in rotation at the top of the page of your website. Everytime I visitied your site the other day I had to look at that stomach churning picture of the bug in the salad. Finally I just stopped clicking over and got my news at another local website.
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what does triple commas mean? super elipses!?
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In some restaurants around the world that bug could be on the menu.
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If you want to puke, go to a fast food restaurant in California. Absolutely filthy not to mention the rudest employees ever.
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