A judge lost his temper in Manhattan last month and fined seven downtown restaurant owners $775 because their glasses were dirty. During the month, 87 New York City restaurateurs got summonses for dirty dishesthe Health Department's last resort when all attempts to win proprietors and influence dishwashers failed.
Not Alcohol. Some of the most expensive restaurants had bacteria counts as high as 4,800 to a cup (test is made by swabbing out a utensil with wet sterile cotton and culturing the swab). The maximum the law allows is 100. One drug store had 86,000 bacteria to a cupno surprise to customers who...
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