Bad idea: using air conditioned hotel room for food storage
Pennsylvania state inspectors said the Holiday Inn on Greenfield Road, east of Lancaster, was using a guest room to store perishable food because a refrigerator in the restaurant had stopped working.
Bill Chirdon, Director of Food Safety for the State Agriculture Department said,
“Yes. We did have an unusual situation."
The agency got a tip last week from an employee at the Holiday Inn on Greenfield Road, just off Route 30, east of Lancaster.
The employee said perishable food from the restaurant was being stored in a guest room because a commercial refrigerator broke.
Chirdon said that means the food was stored at around 65 degrees, not nearly cold enough to be safe.
He said the commercial refrigerator at the hotel was repaired and the poorly stored food was thrown out. He said follow-up inspections will be done.
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I live in Toronto,Ontario (Canada). Two months ago my wife and got sick on the way home from a hotel in niagara falls. Six hours before getting sick we had a big meal at the hotel. I wish we would have read this article before eating at the hotel. I guess hotel food is eater beware.
Regards,
David Mc