Health Inspectors Find 13 Health Code Violations at Resort in Palm Beach - Polidicks

[quote]Just days before the state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach private club, Florida restaurant inspectors found potentially dangerous raw fish and cited the club for storing food in two broken down coolers. Inspectors found 13 violations at the fancy club’s kitchen, according to recently published reports — a record for an institution that charges $200,000 in initiation fees. Three of the violations were deemed “high priority,” meaning that they could allow the presence of illness-causing bacteria on plates served in the dining room. According to their latest visit to the club Jan. 26, state inspectors decided Mar-a-Lago’s kitchen did meet the minimum standards. But they had a field day with elements that could give members of the high-class club and foreign dignitaries some pause: ▪ Fish designed to be served raw or undercooked, the inspection report reads, had not undergone proper parasite destruction. Kitchen staffers were ordered to cook the fish immediately or throw it out. ▪ In two of the club’s coolers, inspectors found that raw meats that should be stored at 41 degrees were much too warm and potentially dangerous: chicken was 49 degrees, duck clocked in a 50 degrees and raw beef was 50 degrees. The winner? Ham at 57 degrees. ▪ The club was cited for not maintaining the coolers in proper working order and was ordered to have them emptied immediately and repaired. The other violations weren’t so serious. Water at the sink where employees wash their hands was too cold to sanitize hands. And Mar-a-Lago was also written up for keeping rusted shelves inside walk-in coolers.[/quote] [url=http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/restaurants/article144261894.html]Miami Herald[/url]

How much of a cheapskate does one have to be to not even fix the fridges at such an expensive place?

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;52098230]How much of a cheapskate does one have to be to not even fix the fridges at such an expensive place?[/QUOTE] You'd be surprised how far somebody will go to save themselves a few bucks even when they have all the money in the world.

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;52098230]How much of a cheapskate does one have to be to not even fix the fridges at such an expensive place?[/QUOTE] Never underestimate the capacity of a person to cheap out if it saves them a couple bucks.

Trump is just as cheap as Mr.Krabs but none of the quirky character elements that make Mr.Krabs interesting or funny. £5 Trump would serve the nasty patty to his club members if he had the chance.

[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52098392]Trump is just as cheap as Mr.Krabs but none of the quirky character elements that make Mr.Krabs interesting or funny. £5 Trump would serve the nasty patty to his club members if he had the chance.[/QUOTE] I highly doubt Trump is involved in the day to day running of the place. This is a case of a mid level manager not doing their job.

Having worked in more than a few kitchens in my life, I say you'd be hard pressed to find one that doesn't skimp somewhere. Some of these regulations can be immensely difficult to obtain 100% compliance with. This is not to say Mar-a-Lago should be exempt--I have very little doubt they are fully capable of complying. This is not excusable.

[QUOTE=sgman91;52098457]I highly doubt Trump is involved in the day to day running of the place. This is a case of a mid level manager not doing their job.[/QUOTE] If the man eats from his own kitchen he'd be a fool not to know what goes on in there. Though I suppose you're right that may be giving Trump too much credit in the intelligence department.

[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52099196]If the man eats from his own kitchen he'd be a fool not to know what goes on in there. Though I suppose you're right that may be giving Trump too much credit in the intelligence department.[/QUOTE] the man also runs/ran? like 5 million other places, i'm sure this is really just caused by some manager somewhere didn't give a shit about certain problems. you've gotta remember, having trumps name on something doesn't mean he really has total ownership over it, it just means he gave the place his brand, and that's pretty much where the relationship begins and ends. he's also, you know, been running for president for the last 2 years so i'm sure the health inspector was the last thing on his mind lmao. you're giving trump waaaay too much credit in terms of being able to run all those businesses without a hitch :v: it's like being surprised that when you go to guy fieri's restaurant, you're surprised to find he actually isn't there like 90% of the time.

As someone who works in the service industry, "fancy" restaurants tend to have far more lax food safety standards and cleanliness than chains. I work at a family-owned restaurant right now and while you won't get food poisoning, it's not a clean place. I worked at a fast-food deli chain in the past and it was obsessive with making sure everything was stored at the right temperature and everything was clean. Mid-range fast-food places are cleaner than fancy restaurants, every time. Doesn't surprise me at all that Mar-a-Lago has problems with cleanliness. Most smaller-scale restaurants that don't have standardized routines for cleaning and maintaining shit probably do. Still embarrassing for somewhere that's supposed to be that high-class.

[QUOTE=.Isak.;52118184]As someone who works in the service industry, "fancy" restaurants tend to have far more lax food safety standards and cleanliness than chains. I work at a family-owned restaurant right now and while you won't get food poisoning, it's not a clean place. I worked at a fast-food deli chain in the past and it was obsessive with making sure everything was stored at the right temperature and everything was clean. Mid-range fast-food places are cleaner than fancy restaurants, every time. Doesn't surprise me at all that Mar-a-Lago has problems with cleanliness. Most smaller-scale restaurants that don't have standardized routines for cleaning and maintaining shit probably do. Still embarrassing for somewhere that's supposed to be that high-class.[/QUOTE] It depends. I worked at a taco chain where the guy who worked mornings apparantley didn't know or didn't care about cleaning all the spilled taco meat behind the stove before he left (meaning there would be piles of dried taco meat by the time I got there in the afternoon, which naturally lead to roaches living in the wall behind the stove), and the manager himself didn't know how to properly clean the cookware as was evident when he tried to show me how to "do dishes faster" where he washed while I was supposed to rinse/sanitize. I ended up throwing at least half of his "clean" dishes right back into the wash tub because they still had obvious chunks of stuff still on them. Then while I was working for a local HVAC contractor, we did a fair bit of work in the kitchen area of a local restaurant in particular that was absolutely [I]disgusting[/I] in the back. Fly shit all over the walls, roaches, mice, you name it they had it (and if they didn't have it they would likely have it in short order). This was on top of some of their employees handling raw food materials bare-handed. There was also another restaurant known as "Kripple Kreek" that was closed down due to health violations, even though the sign outside the now closed-down building says "retired". :v:

Mmmm 14C ham. Sounds delicious.

[QUOTE=sgman91;52098457]I highly doubt Trump is involved in the day to day running of the place. This is a case of a mid level manager not doing their job.[/QUOTE] on the other hand trump has a known history of micromanaging everything to the point of telling his middle managers not to spend money.

[QUOTE=Zero-Point;52119182]It depends. I worked at a taco chain where the guy who worked mornings apparantley didn't know or didn't care about cleaning all the spilled taco meat behind the stove before he left (meaning there would be piles of dried taco meat by the time I got there in the afternoon, which naturally lead to roaches living in the wall behind the stove), and the manager himself didn't know how to properly clean the cookware as was evident when he tried to show me how to "do dishes faster" where he washed while I was supposed to rinse/sanitize. I ended up throwing at least half of his "clean" dishes right back into the wash tub because they still had obvious chunks of stuff still on them. Then while I was working for a local HVAC contractor, we did a fair bit of work in the kitchen area of a local restaurant in particular that was absolutely [I]disgusting[/I] in the back. Fly shit all over the walls, roaches, mice, you name it they had it (and if they didn't have it they would likely have it in short order). This was on top of some of their employees handling raw food materials bare-handed. There was also another restaurant known as "Kripple Kreek" that was closed down due to health violations, even though the sign outside the now closed-down building says "retired". :v:[/QUOTE] That's why I said "mid-range." I've heard horror stories about a lot of fast food places, franchised-out ones in particular. Corporate-owned and operated mid-range delis and fast food places are [I]usually[/I] better maintained than small, family-owned non-chains. Especially fancy ones that aren't in major cities.

[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;52098230]How much of a cheapskate does one have to be to not even fix the fridges at such an expensive place?[/QUOTE] Oh they'll have the money now. Every weekend except for one Trump has been there, security detail, presidential press, other cabinet leaders and world leaders and THEIR security detail/press/assistants, and they all stay and eat there on tax dollars, which are going straight into Trump's pocket Why else would he go there every single weekend, he's using the presidency as a front to draw in business