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Inspection Cites Restaurant For Keeping Bread In Bathroom (Checkers)
WFTV News ^ | 4-29-08

Posted on 04/30/2008 7:37:37 AM PDT by rawhide

SANFORD, Fla. -- Eyewitness News discovered a popular Sanford fast food restaurant that's accused of storing food on the floor inside the men's restroom. The food that was left on the floor in the restroom was just one of several critical violations health inspectors found at a Checkers location in Sanford.

Employees at the Checkers store on South French Avenue at West 15th Street apparently decided it was okay to store buns for their hamburgers inside a not-so-clean men's room.

Tuesday, it appeared they had changed the policy, but not before racking up a dozen health code violations.

"The bread was stacked sky high to the ceiling, plus it was only about 12 inches from the men's commode," said former customer Willie Jones.

Checker's goes through a lot of hamburger buns at its drive-thru restaurants. It's hard to even think about what might happen to those buns in a tiny, smelly and dirty bathroom. One customer told Eyewitness News he didn't like the manager's reaction to his complaint about the bread box-bathroom stall combination.

"'You got the bread in the men's restroom.' She got angry with me. She got T'd off and she locked the door," Jones said.

Health officials didn't settle for that solution, forcing the store to throw away all of it.Unfortunately, they don't know how long the Sanford Checkers kept both bread and cups in a bathroom that was quickly cleaned as Eyewitness News arrived Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: bread; checkers; fastfood; restroom

1 posted on 04/30/2008 7:37:38 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Disgusting. (And Checkers [not Sanford] is my favorite local Fast Food Burger place.)


2 posted on 04/30/2008 7:43:41 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: rawhide
'You got the bread in the men's restroom"

Wasn't that a Squirrel Nut Zipper's song?

3 posted on 04/30/2008 7:43:43 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

One time at Golden Corral one of the waitresses took a bread basket into the public women’s room to gossip with a coworker. I was so upset, that was my favorite part of the restaurant....the hot rolls.

Not anymore. The manager was a friend so I did let him know.


4 posted on 04/30/2008 7:48:54 AM PDT by proudtobeanamerican1 (Media -)
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To: rawhide
said former customer Willie Jones

Classic

5 posted on 04/30/2008 7:58:32 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Here they come boys! As thick as grass, and as black as thunder!)
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To: rawhide

“The bread was stacked sky high to the ceiling, plus it was only about 12 inches from the men’s commode,”

That’s gonna cause problems for those with wide stances.


6 posted on 04/30/2008 8:00:37 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Carbon is the fifth most abundant element on the planet.)
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To: rawhide

The manager’s probably a McCain voter....


7 posted on 04/30/2008 8:11:00 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Thread Police. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: rawhide

It was left there as TP in this VERY high-class joint.


8 posted on 04/30/2008 8:12:07 AM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: rawhide
After reading this article, I keep thinking of the restaurant chain out west: "In-N-Out Burger".
9 posted on 04/30/2008 8:12:31 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide; All

eeeewwwwwwww....

(were the rolls soggy?)


10 posted on 04/30/2008 9:10:09 AM PDT by rlmorel (Clinging bitterly to Guns and God in Massachusetts...:)
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To: rawhide

Now that this is on Drudge i don’t imagine this restaurant will be around for much longer.


11 posted on 04/30/2008 10:12:13 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie
..too bad, the Checkers near me is very clean, friendly & fast, I like that.

Also, I notice they don't use microwaves, I think that helps w/taste, they use purple onions too.

I don't get that, "Quick, where's the bathroom feeling..", that I get from Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy's , etc.

12 posted on 04/30/2008 10:21:55 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: norraad

I know that feeling! :)

I never heard of Checkers. I’m from the Boston area, None around here.


13 posted on 04/30/2008 10:37:22 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie
There an interesting franchise, many minority owned, it's basically a modified doublewide plopped down on half or less the land most burger joints have.

Always a very quick drive through, much faster than any other I experienced, even during busy times (they manage to open two lanes, brilliant!).

14 posted on 04/30/2008 11:12:01 AM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: mowowie

This same company owns Rally’s Hamburger chain.


15 posted on 04/30/2008 11:18:54 AM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide
Update:

Witnesses told the TV station that hamburger buns were routinely stacked "sky high" in the dirty, smelly men's room at the restaurant.

I just telephoned the Checker's restaurant tonight, and asked if they were still open? "Till 3AM and please come by and see us", the guy responded.

16 posted on 04/30/2008 7:31:53 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide

Rally’s?

I gotta get out more often....:)


17 posted on 05/01/2008 8:14:37 AM PDT by mowowie
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