Monday, July 21, 2008 |
No Rats In Angel Stadium, But Maybe It's The Timing
Since then, inspectors have issued 23 more vermin violations at the stadium, none of them major. Of those, eight involved flies, seven involved live or dead cockroaches, six involved mostly old rodent droppings, one involved ants and one involved a live cricket.Here's an amazing graf:The most serious violation involving vermin since last August wasn't even logged as a vermin violation. Last month, inspectors discovered a fly in a bottle of whiskey at the Angels Homeplate Club. They filed it under "Improper Food Storage" – a major violation -- and had the bottle thrown out.
In all, stadium food stands have racked up 152 health-code violations since January – all but two of them minor. The causes range from sticky floors to broken freezers to guacamole left out a little too long.
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"Our program is in place and we're very satisfied with our maintenance," said Tim Mead, the Angels' vice president of communications. "Is the (rodent) issue behind us? Yes. Absolutely. But that doesn't mean we stop looking for ways to better our systems, better our programs."
The food contractor for stadium restaurants, Aramark, now requires its managers to do a nightly cleaning inspection before they leave. The company also has started doing two "deep cleans" of stadium food venues every year – scouring "every nook and cranny," spokesman David Freireich said.I used to work at Mickey D's, and we scoured the place every frickin' day after close. They weren't doing this before?
Part of the reason the most recent inspections may have turned up fewer violations is because of the Angels' schedule:
Last year, inspectors wrote up more than 400 violations at the stadium between January and mid-July. But the sharp decrease in violations this year is at least partly because of the timing of those inspections.Finally, the stadium has adopted a pair of cats from the nearby county animal shelter used as mousers, one of whom is named Angel Eyes. "Maybe that's helped," Angels' VP of communication Tim Mead said.Inspectors visited stadium food venues 59 times last year between April and mid-July – when the Angels were actually playing ball there. This year, there have been only 25 inspections since the home opener in early April, records show.
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 |
Angels To Change Cleaning Schedules
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Saturday, August 04, 2007 |
Oh, Rats: Angel Stadium Cited For Vermin Violations
Discarded peanut shells, the remnants of hot dog buns, sticky ice cream wrappers and nachos coated with tangerine-colored cheese carpet the stands of Angel Stadium – about 15 tons of garbage on average per game, according to stadium officials.The Angels say the problem started in 2005 with heavy rains that encouraged rats to multiply. The park has much worse numbers than Petco Park or Dodger Stadium.The refuse can sit out for more than 12 hours before it is collected, a time lag that may help account for the 118 vermin violations that county officials logged at stadium kiosks and restaurants over the last 2 ½ years.
Of those reports, 33 represent "major" violations, in which "rodent activity" was observed by health inspectors in a "critical area" of 18 stadium food venues.
"It should be zero. A restaurant is closed down for these kinds of things," said Richard Sanchez, the director of environmental health for the county Health Care Agency.
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