Fenway Park Food Stands Fail City Health Inspections
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Food Stands At Fenway Park
Fail City Health Inspections |
Fenway Park's food stands, operated by Aramark, "flunked city health inspections on more than a dozen health and safety measurements on Red Sox opening day April 8, from storing food at unsafe temperatures to failing to clean food preparation counters," according to a front-page piece by John Drake of the BOSTON GLOBE. City inspectors discovered the violations, which were "significant enough to pose a risk of food poisoning for patrons, even though they had virtually the same set of problems in an examination more than a week earlier and demanded corrective action." Aramark's response to the city's findings was "so slow that the city threatened at a municipal court hearing to shut down Fenway Park's food stands if the problems were not fixed." Nineteen home games passed before the concession stands "finally passed a city health inspection on May 16." Red Sox officials said that Aramark did not inform the team of violations when they occurred, and that the team "did not learn of the numerous health and safety issues until it was informed by the Globe yesterday.” Red Sox COO Mike Dee: “We have made it clear to Aramark that we want to be informed immediately when any issues related to the Division of Health occur from this point going forward.” A team official added that the team’s agreement with Aramark "requires such notification.” Drake writes the inspection reports "paint an unsettling portrait of the Fenway dining experience.”
ARAMARK RESPONSE: Red Sox and Aramark officials “pointed out that the first health inspection occurred while the park was undergoing major renovations and that Opening Day inspection came when the park still was fixing kinks with its equipment.” Aramark Northeast Regional VP Rich Roper: “The building was still under construction at the time, and I did not know that was going to be an actual inspection. I asked them if they could come back. We tried our best in the nine days before they came back for the next inspection. We got to a lot of the things; some of the things we didn’t get to. At no time were any of those things hazardous to anyone’s health” (BOSTON GLOBE, 6/12).
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