Why All Restaurants Should Have Fly Killers: Fly Found in Soup

We all know the jokes starting Waiter, theres a fly in my soup. It wasn’t funny, however, for Andrea Svensson, to whom it actually happened in an expensive restaurant in Gothenburg, Sweden. Svensson was on a date with her long term boyfriend and fianc who had splashed out on a romantic evening – but the night took a wrong turn when her starter was served with the floating insect. “I feel sick just talking about it,” said Miss Svensson, 27 years old. “I would have swallowed the filthy insect if my boyfriend hadn’t seen it. The couple, outraged, immediately called the waiter over to complain. To make matters worse, the waiter who came to see them actually took it as a joke and walked away, grinning knowingly! “You might think it’s hilarious, but at the time we weren’t laughing. said boyfriend David. “It really killed our appetite – hygiene is really important to me, especially at these prices. When they didnt take us seriously it just made me more upset.” In the end they had to get hold of the manager of the restaurant, who, upon seeing the insect apologised and offered the couple dinner at no charge. It was too little too late for the couple, however, who couldn’t bear to stick around and sample the main course.

Joking aside, any restaurant knows how big a health and safety nightmare this situation could be. The hot summer weather naturally attracts insects, especially in a food preparation area, and installing a low cost electric fly killer is an absolute must in any commercial kitchen. This particular restaurant however, not being used to hot days in the Swedish climate, didnt have one. “It’s a warning to us that we need to do something about it,” said the head chef later. “This has never happened here before and we need to make sure it never does.”. We do take hygiene very seriously in our kitchens, and actually have an air purifier already to trap airborne viruses, as well as air conditioners throughout the restaurant.” Hopefully there are other restauranteurs following this story who will heed the warning. Reputations have been shredded in the past on incidents such as these. Even worse than the damage to reputation is the prospect of a visit from the dreaded health inspector, which can in extreme cases get the business temporarily closed down.

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