Which Stadium Food Vendor Had Most Health Violations?

ESPN has collated the sanitary inspection records for food vendors across America, and the results may shock you. In our area, this includes the most recent Health Department inspection results for vendors at Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, Madison Square Garden, and Nassau Coliseum. Care to place a bet on which one was cleanest and which was grossest?

All three major stadiums in NYC were bested for cleanliness by Nassau Coliseum, which scored a perfect 0% with "no critical or major violations." So now Islanders fans only have to worry about their mental health! The worst offender by far was Madison Square Garden, where 61% of the vendors had "critical violations." At one stand, inspectors found "53 mouse excreta" (38 on top of a metal box underneath the cash registers in the front food-prep/service area and 15 on top of a carbonated-beverage dispensing unit). But at least the shitty food at Knicks' games matches the shitty playing.

Second best in NYC was Citi Field, where 45% of the vendors had critical violations. Their worst offense was for bad chicken, when inspectors found that 20 pounds of grilled chicken registered at 70 degrees in a refrigerator, about 30 degrees warmer than allowed. Yankee Stadium was scored slightly worse, with 48% of the vendors racking up critical violations. Infractions included five hot dogs registering at 91 degrees in a hot-holding unit when they were supposed to be no cooler than 140. Inspectors also made a vendor pour out a bottle of Chivas Regal whiskey containing dead fruit flies.

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By John Del Signore in Food on July 26, 2010 3:39 PM

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grakmarsh

It is really glad topic about food vendor.I am entirely glad with this and must say that,I have worked at a few food places. For the most part they were all on the up and up. A couple of them did some shady things. Spoiled chicken. Wash it off and fry it. No one know the difference.

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John L

"At one stand, inspectors found "53 mouse excreta" (38 on top of a metal box underneath the cash registers in the front food-prep/service area and 15 on top of a carbonated-beverage dispensing unit)."

Damn, that is so disgusting! You would think that with the overcharging they do they'd at least keep it clean.

whitecastlerock

ESPN-the same network that turned a blind eye to players juicing.

jaycjay

"Their worst offense was for bad chicken"

The report doesn't say the chicken was "bad" or spoiled. It says it being kept at a temperature warmer than regulations allow. In practice, though, there's not likely to have been anything wrong with it.

But it is one of the "worst" offenses listed, I guess. Most of them are pretty insignificant. "Employees caught drinking or eating while they were working," "not having a food-safety-certified supervisor present," "scraping food debris from a spatula using the trash bin and then trying to continue using the same spatula" (which had touched nothing but food), "handling lemons, limes and oranges with their bare hands while placing them on beverage glasses" (what bartender doesn't do that?), etc.

jpeditor

"The report doesn't say the chicken was "bad" or spoiled. It says it being kept at a temperature warmer than regulations allow. In practice, though, there's not likely to have been anything wrong with it."

I hope you don't work in food service.

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