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  • British diner threatened to use knife on pub staff over 'below par' sandwich

    Posted: August 24th, 2011 - 8:44pm by Doug Powell

    A diner threatened to return to an English pub armed with a knife after being served a "below par" beef and onion sandwich, a court has heard.

    Clive Davies, 54, left the White Horse pub in Cambridge and showed employees at a nearby grocery store a seven-inch blade he said he planned to use on the staff who had served him the unsatisfactory sandwich, the Cambridge News reported today.

    Employees at the store called police and Davies, who has a previous conviction for manslaughter, was apprehended in another local pub, the Lion and Lamb.

    He pleaded guilty to threatening and abusive language, possessing a bladed article in a public place, and possession of cannabis.

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  • Don’t go to work if you’re sick – Cardiff pub edition

    Posted: April 3rd, 2010 - 1:15pm by Doug Powell

    In April 2007, 135 patrons of the Ffynnon Wen pub in Cardiff, Wales, became sick with norovirus.

    Public health types have just published a report, concluding that sick staff likely had returned to work too soon after being ill and were still infectious, unintentionally contaminating customers’ food.

    Don’t go to work if you’re sick.

    Simon Royal, one of the food poisoning victims, is not happy. He plans to sue Marston’s Inns and Taverns, the company that owns the Ffynnon Wen in Thornhill, Cardiff, and criticized local council for taking so long to publish a full report into the outbreak.

    The official report has recommended the council does not take legal action against the pub or the manager because of “insufficient evidence collected during the investigation.”

    Investigators discovered two staff members who had suffered from a stomach bug could have returned to work within 48 hours and before they were fully symptom-free, in contravention of the company’s fitness-to-work policy.

    Policies are nice, but only if they are enforced.

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