Bad idea: running a restaurant without water, people get sick, owners fined $15,000

Posted: April 11th, 2009 - 11:11am by Doug Powell

Two co-owners of the Yaman Restaurant, a St. Catharines, Ontario, restaurant linked to a 2007 E. coli outbreak, were fined $7,500 each for selling food that made customers sick.

The problems started when Asaad and Daoud continued to run their business on May 19, 2007, despite the fact water to the restaurant was cut off due to a water-main break.

The restaurant was shut down by the region that month after several people got sick, but reopened with a clean bill of health in August that year.

The owners also pleaded guilty on March 4 to failing to provide hot and cold running water in the food-preparation area of the restaurant.
 

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Categories: Restaurant Inspection
Tags: Fined, Ontario, St. Catherines, Water, Yaman Restaurant

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Anonymous says:

Water is a key element in the restaurant field. With them knowing that there was no water then they should have locked the doors. I think the fine was too small

Posted on April 6th, 2011 - 10:40pm

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