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Want to know how detailed a city health inspection of Our Town's restaurants can become? Tribune reporter Monica Eng recently followed two Public Health Inspectors around as they scared the hell out of unsuspecting restaurant owners with spot inspections. How detailed are the inspectors?
"(They) employ a 44-item checklist that combines guidelines from the Illinois Department of Public Health and local city ordinances. It's a meat grinder of a survey, the kind of thing that could make you look at your home kitchen and wince. In fact, in their combined 16 years of inspections, (the inspectors) said they have never found a place in full compliance. Not even the finest restaurants in town."
Eng also describes the rotation system that keeps inspectors working in a set district for a whole year, common inspection infractions and the verbal and physical threats levied at inspectors by restaurant owners. Health Department spokesman Tim Hadac once told us of some similar stories, so it's completely believable. [Tribune]
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Do you know what the "upscale" Polish Restaurant is? All the ones I've been to are the same. Gaudy Crystal light fixtures, varnished oak, and pictures of Pope JP II. Staropolska, Jolly Inn, Theresa II are all average, but still clean and presentable.
And describing a defensive Polish business owner is about as generic as explaining a car is a 4-wheeled automobile.