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Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
>> I was doing a search for someone and ran across this rant by a
>> former employee (no, it wasn't me!). Talk about waiter rants...
>>
>> "I am a former employee of Mortimer's, and I would like to take this
>> chance to warn anyone who might think of dining there about the
>> godawful unsanitary conditions there. Some examples:

>
>> That's enough to put me off a place. But I probably wouldn't have
>> read it if I hadn't been looking something else up.
>>
>> Jill

>
> What we don't know is if any of this is true. Disgruntled employees
> tend to "get even" with management, often in childish ways. In
> industry, they call OSHA and complain about safety violations. OSHA
> must respond and they usually know when the complainer is serious and
> when they are being spiteful. The restaurant review host should do
> some checking too.
> The reviewer may have been fired over his drug use. Or he got caught
> banging the owner's wife. Or he was drinking up the profits at the
> bar. We just don't know.



Excellent points, Ed! I'll take slow service or poor service or bad food
reviews by patrons into consideration.

Jill