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Has an establishment you frequent ever been closed down over food/hygiene safety?

  • 08-03-2021 4:41pm
    #1
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,406 ✭✭✭✭


    To my knowledge it's never happened to a restaurant/takeaway I have been to (it has locally to places I haven't been) but just reading this article...

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/rodent-droppings-among-breaches-found-by-food-safety-watchdog-1.4504431?mode=amp

    it does kind of make me ponder on takeaways (which is all we can do right now).

    If it did happen it would probably put me off restaurants/takeaways for a while. There has been some pretty shocking cases in the past on hygiene.

    As an aside any stories or bad experiences around restuarants/takeaways to share (without naming)? This will probably put me off takeaways permanently but work away :D

    P.S I believe these places are named publically. Perhaps a mod can clarify whether it's ok to name those that were shut down?


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  • #2
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,291 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    There was an Indian in Tralee that was closed down. I was quite surprised by it, the food was always good and I never had any problems. It opened back up again shortly after.

    Kebab shop in Letterkenny as well. The one across the road which had vastly inferior kebabs somehow managed to stay open


  • #3
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,692 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    A chinese across from my house, rats in the kitchen :mad:


  • #4
    helimachoptor
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 21,692 Mod ✭✭✭✭helimachoptor


    tbh used to work in a super market, dont ever go near a salad bar


  • #5
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,424 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    helimachoptor wrote: »
    A chinese across from my house, rats in the kitchen :mad:

    What are they gonna do?!

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • #6
    The Inbetween is mine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,705 ✭✭✭The Inbetween is mine


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    What are they gonna do?!

    The cooking? Haven't we all seen Ratatouille?


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  • #7
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Very popular chipper - repeatedly done for dogfood in the burgers.
    ie the only thing in the burger was dogfood.

    I used dee que’es down the road - pre covid - for chips out of the place - happy drunks from the pub falling over their feet trying to wrap their mouths around the burgers.

    Never quite felt the same about their chips after their second conviction :0

    Still open - now delivers.
    woof.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I used to live in Terenure, and would very occasionally visit Gino's Chipper. Closed numerous times over the years for breaches of food hygiene, and now permanently closed I believe. You would also be guaranteed to encounter some domestic issue happening in behind the counter - usually a drunk man screaming at his wife. Depressing place. The food was awful as well, but it was the only chipper in Terenure, and sometimes you just need a battered sausage and curried chips.


  • #9
    GT89
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭GT89


    My local Chinese has been closed down a number times. To be fair they haven't been closed down for quite some time so they must have improved a bit the place still looks a bit ropey. Not sure why food establishments don't display a food hygiene rating on the door like in the UK.


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