Thursday, March 01, 2007

kentucky fried what?

It seems the rat-infested KFC might not have been such a fluke after
all. Yum! Brands, the owner of KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, etc., has
preemptively shut down all restaurants owned by the rat-infested
franchisee following a day of further failed inspections at other New
York City locations. From WABC:

After a day of reinspections yesterday, the company
that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut decided to close all its ADF
Companies franchises that have not yet been inspected by the Health
Department.

"These few franchise units, operated by ADF in New York, obviously
do not meet our strict restaurant standards based on health inspection
reports," said Emil Brolick, President U.S. Brands, Yum! Brands, Inc.



"They will remain closed until we are absolutely certain they will
operate at our high standards. We apologize to our customers and are
taking every action, with the assistance of external sanitation
experts, to get to the bottom of this. We are redoubling our efforts to
inspect every restaurant and are reinforcing all our restaurant
cleaning and sanitation procedures," Brolick said.


Yum! didn't say how many restaurants were preemptively closed, but the
franchisee operates 20 locations in New York City alone, and "runs
nearly 400 franchise restaurants across the U.S. They are the
second-largest Pizza Hut-franchise operator in the country." That's
comforting

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