Restaurant fined for car park food prep
A Canberra restaurant has been closed and its owner fined $1500 after it was discovered that food was being prepared in the car park behind the restaurant.
The owner of the Tak Kee Roast Inn, Kin Wah Wong, was convicted in the ACT Magistrates Court of three food safety offences relating to food preparation on dirty premises (including a dirty chopping block and rusty knife), and defrosting and food preparation in the car park without protection from contamination.
The court was told that the violations were discovered by a health inspector looking down from the balcony of the backpackers above the restaurant, to see restaurant employees defrosting meat and chopping vegetables below.
On inspection, the restaurant was found to have filthy conditions throughout, including rotting food and rubbish, dirty surfaces and improperly stored food, including a tub of meat on the floor and barbecued ducks hanging on the back of a door.
Obviously this Restaurant Owner got the name Wong from day one!
Tak Kee Roast Inn? No! ……………..Better “TACKY ROAST INN” or even better……
“TAKE THE ROAST IN” I hope they come down on him like a “Tun o’ Bwiks”!
Don’t tell the Polies though, this might help to clean out a bit more “filth” from
the National Capital. There is always something good comes out of the worst
situations.