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From: Ed P <esp@snet.n>
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Subject: Re: Dinner Tonight, 1/31/2025
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:52:55 -0500
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On 2/10/2025 9:13 PM, songbird wrote:
> Jill McQuown wrote:
>> On 2/8/2025 8:50 PM, songbird wrote:
>>> Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> ...chinese food place making eggrolls...
>>>> I'm curious: how exactly do you know they're making them from scratch?
>>>> Do you have a view of the kitchen?
>>>
>>>     within the last few months i've been in their kitchen
>>> when they've been making them.  we'd ordered a large
>>> takeout meal for a family gathering and had to pick it up
>>> when they were still getting ready to open.  we went in
>>> the door and nobody was at the front desk as usual so we
>>> had to walk back to the kitchen and get the order.  they
>>> were there working around a large food prep table piled
>>> full of eggroll innards.
>>>
>>>     so, yes, i'd say it very likely they are still making
>>> their own since the flavor and blend of ingredients has
>>> not changed in the recent months (i've eat several dozen
>>> of their eggrolls in the past six months).  when you've
>>> been eating these for about fifty years you kinda know
>>> what they're like.
>>>
>>>
>>>     songbird
>>
>> WOW.  Thanks for that first-hand observation.  You do realize customers
>> are not usually allowed in the kitchen of restaurants due to insurance
>> liability issues.  You lucked out on that one.
> 
>    when you are on first name basis with the people who own
> and run the place and you've been going there 50+ years and
> it is the same family...  it makes a lot of difference.
> there's zero liability issue.  just like any other person
> who goes there to pick up or deliver whatever.  besides i
> wasn't touching anything and i wasn't lingering.  i was in
> there perhaps all of 10 seconds but you can see a lot.
> 
> 
>    songbird

They may do it under those circumstances, but they may be in violation 
of the local health code.  Yes, if the code prohibits there is liability.

Some have a dress code.  No open shoes, must wear a hat.

A  local family place may be lax, not sure I'd want to dine there if too 
lax.