Cafe Garema feels the banhammer

GardeningGirl said :

1. Does that imply there is a return visit to see if the problem/s have been fixed?

It would appear so. The process seems to be 1- get an improvement order 2- fail to rectify issue in improvement order get a prohibition order.

So on the one hand it was clever to hang the notice up so everyone could know exactly what the problem was, but on the other it does make them look a bit slack given that they had two weeks notice to do something.

davo101 said :

Someone had stuck up on the next window a copy of the inspection report. From my very quick read I thought it was interesting that:

1. The date of the inspection was the 16th but the closure was effective from the 30th–so you do seem to get some sort of warning that there is a problem.

2. They were failed for not having splash backs installed.

3. They also failed because of cockroach infestation, but there was a note indicating that the cafe was constantly baiting but it was still a problem. Anyone what to bet that cockroaches don’t just hang out in one kitchen and that all of the eating establishments in that building probably need to start an ant-roach campaign?

1. Does that imply there is a return visit to see if the problem/s have been fixed?

2. So what was there, something not hardwearing and cleanable I assume? That should be taken care of before a food outlet opens for business on day one!

3. I have some sympathy. In an old building shared with other businesses including other food outlets the building owner should be required to have a proper plan.

Well I don’t think these red notices are doing much to dissuade customer from returning.

Gus’s was open again today, I walked past this morning well before lunch (on the way back from one of Canberra’s best coffee places I might add).

A few people outside, a few people ordering at the counter inside, and heaps of tables inside taken.

Guess I shouldn’t be surprised, for a place that so consistently is said to have bad coffee and overpriced food, if people we’re flocking in before, why would a health prohibition notice put them off?

JazzyJess said :

Where the heck is it? A quick Google search proved futile.

Next to Essen.

Furry Jesus said :

I work in Civic, walk through Garema Place every day, but I’ve never noticed this cafe by name. Where is it?

Where the heck is it? A quick Google search proved futile.

davo101 said :

Anyone what to bet that cockroaches don’t just hang out in one kitchen and that all of the eating establishments in that building probably need to start an ant-roach campaign?

Negative externality >>>>> cockroach tax.

Someone had stuck up on the next window a copy of the inspection report. From my very quick read I thought it was interesting that:

1. The date of the inspection was the 16th but the closure was effective from the 30th–so you do seem to get some sort of warning that there is a problem.

2. They were failed for not having splash backs installed.

3. They also failed because of cockroach infestation, but there was a note indicating that the cafe was constantly baiting but it was still a problem. Anyone what to bet that cockroaches don’t just hang out in one kitchen and that all of the eating establishments in that building probably need to start an ant-roach campaign?

I wonder if by chance Silo passed an inspection days before their problems, and the inspectors got burnt by that and are now dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s on every inspection they do as a reaction to that?

Seriously doubt there is a conspiracy afoot…

…maybe instead of being complacent about the state of the work areas, these eateries could just try… cleaning a bit more often?

You know, like they are supposed to?

Of course, I feel sorry for the kitchenhands in these places, they are probably never given enough time to clean properly in any case… who wants to pay for staff to spend their time on something so irrlevant to putting plates in front of people??

I helped a colleague strip out a “greasy spoon” type takeaway somewhere in south Canberra about 20 years ago. The last tenants had been evicted and the owner of a shop nearby quipped that after they left, cockroaches carrying suitcases were seen to be leaving also. The deep fryers were still full of putrid cooking oil and a large dead rat was floating in one. In my younger days I worked in a takeaway in a NSW country town. The owner used to bath his infants in the sink every night and then use the same water to “wash” the cooking and serving implements.
“What the eyes doesn’t see, the stomach doesn’t know about”