I'm not going to have a chance to post tomorrow since I'll be at a conference all day, so I thought I would give you two for one today. That's nearly unheard of in today's economy!
So what are we looking at? Well this is also what lurks under your fridge, except that instead of dozens and dozens of water bugs under a residential fridge, here we have a restaurant walk in fridge with pounds and pounds of, well, whatever this is. There's a clearer picture below:
Needless to say, this restaurant was having a major fly infestation.
"But we clean and clean and clean."
"Did you ever dig under this walk in fridge?"
"Oh, we didn't know stuff went under there."
Not just stuff, my children, but years worth of decaying organic matter that smells like a sewer system in a fourth world country.
The restaurant staff was literally, by that I mean literally, standing around us with their jaws hanging open as we dug out this smut with our screw drivers.
Needless to say, the fly problem got a lot better by the very next day.
So what can we conclude about this?
1) Even if you think you know, you do not know, until you do know.
2) Admit that you need a fresh set of eyes every now and again to check your place out. Teach your staff to clean using third eye vision, the mind's eye. Learn that your problems aren't just the ones you can see.
3) The earth is alive. Water and organic matter are essential to life. If you have water and organic matter in a kitchen, it's going to be full of living creatures, some that you can see, and some that you can't. Are you okay with that?
Ew York City will be wrapping up a long week on Friday. But Sunday's coming.
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