Fine for serving food on a wooden board
Years ago, a steakhouse in England was fined £50,000 because no fewer than fourteen guests contracted food poisoning there. The reason? The food was served on wooden boards. Quite apart from the fact that wooden boards are a source of bacteria, we say anyway: get rid of them, we want plates!
At some point over the past few years, it was decided that plates weren’t hip enough for serving food on. Wooden boards, on the other hand, are – a stubborn trend that we just can’t seem to get rid of. It’s not for nothing that the (painfully hilarious) website WeWantPlates has been campaigning for years for the revival of the old familiar plate. And that’s a good thing too; keeping a wooden board clean is no easy task. (Tip from Yvette van Boven: this is the best way to clean your wooden cutting board).
Wooden boards: get rid of them!
Back to that steakhouse in England. After an inspection by the British food authority, it turned out that the wooden boards on which the restaurant served food were not being cleaned properly. In addition, the chefs apparently weren’t washing their hands before cooking, ughhh gross.
The restaurant received a warning for its poor hygiene, but when the inspectors returned, the boards were still absolutely filthy: they had indefinable pink and black stains on them, which clearly hadn’t come from the food being served. Because the restaurant had put its guests at risk, it was fined £50,000. Finally, proof that this restaurant-board business in the hospitality industry had to stop.
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