Georgia Huddle House receives a 71 on inspection; cited for onion doorstop

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I like to scan the restaurant inspection and investigation reports we gather through the news for anything that’s a bit weird. We’ve had bean soaking in a plastic-lined horse trough covered with plywood, goat slaughtering in the kitchen and now using vegetables as doorstops.Unknown-9

According to WFXI, in addition to risky practices like improper storage temperatures and cold holding a Douglas Georgia Huddle House was using onions to hold open the door on the dry storage room.

It’s unclear whether it was a bag of onions, or just a couple stuck under the door.

 

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.