Sunday, January 1, 2012

The Sarcasm Report v.146 (Musical Tribute)

January 1, 2012
Family's teriyaki restaurant is feelin' the love

"Opening a restaurant is like having a baby; it's a big commitment," said Soo Yim.

Closing a restaurant is like having a nearly endless supply of babies; it's a big commitment.

LA County Department of Public Health - Weekly Restaurant Closures

BACIAMI, 139 1/2 N LARCHMONT BLVD, LOS ANGELES, CA, 90004

  • Date Closed: September 14, 2011
  • Date Reopened: September 16, 2011
  • Reason for Closure:
  • Vermin Harborage
    Vermin infestation
    Vermin infestation

  • Date Closed: November 30, 2011
  • Date Reopened: December 02, 2011
  • Reason for Closure:
  • Vermin Harborage
    Vermin infestation

Z GARDEN, 2350 PICO BLVD, SANTA MONICA, CA, 90405

  • Date Closed: September 26, 2011
  • Date Reopened: September 28, 2011
  • Reason for Closure:
  • Vermin infestation

  • Date Closed: September 29, 2011
  • Date Reopened: October 12, 2011
  • Reason for Closure:
  • Vermin Harborage
    Vermin infestation

Behold the combined power of public records and the Internet.

5 comments:

fried said...

Reminds me of a Chinese joint called Ollies on Broadway near me on the West Side of Manhattan. Place was upscale in design and packed. One day,the health inspectors had enough...and they raided the place and chased out the diners in mid-lunch. Owner must have paid off though...he reopened the place under a new corporate name, different decor and menu...and it's packed again. Violations included vermin, broken refrigeration, broken employee lavatories, wage violations, immigration problems.
No jail time, no banning from the industry.
Gotta love the restaurant biz.

Stagflationary Mark said...

fried,

Amazing story.

The best I can offer from personal experience is a restaurant in the Seattle Chinatown-International District that felt the men's restroom was a good place to store cardboard boxes (contents unknown).

You may find this hard to believe, but I have not been back there. ;)

Fritz_O said...

"...Manhattan...One day,the health inspectors had enough...and they raided the place and chased out the diners..."

As I was reading your story my mind was working about three words ahead of the text and I swore that the word 'rats' was going to be where 'diners' ended up being.

I think it was the word 'Manhattan' that put me in that mindset!


DISCLAIMER: Fried, no offense is intended, I am merely making a probably weak dig at the Wall Street bankster crowd. If you're in the financial industry, sorry.

fried said...

Fritz,
now worries, i live here and we got plenty of rats...four and two legged.

Stagflationary Mark said...

Fritz_O & fried,

Plenty of rats here as well. In fact, I just checked the traps in my crawlspace again today. No takers in December. Hurray!