Posted on 08/10/2013 4:11:29 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Maggots found in Atlanta airport sandwich, food inspections enhanced
ATLANTA — Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport officials tell Channel 2 Action News they are enhancing the way they inspect restaurants inside the airport after a man showed Channel 2 Action News a sandwich he purchased from an airport vendor had maggots.
The passenger told Channel 2's Amy Napier Viteri he bought a sandwich at an airport restaurant Wednesday morning. When he opened it he said he was stunned to find maggots on it.
Joel Woloshuk says he got out his phone and recorded video of the bugs crawling on his focaccia sandwich after boarding a flight to Miami for work Wednesday morning.
The video shows maggots crawling in and on the food he bought at the Café Intermezzo franchise location inside Terminal B at Hartsfield-Jackson.
"What I thought was parmesan and the parmesan began to move," Woloshuk told Viteri.
Woloshuk kept the sandwich and showed Channel 2 Action News the maggots when he got back to Atlanta Wednesday night.
He said he called the restaurant and asked to meet with a manager but no one was available that night.
"This is not wilted tomato; this isn't a moldy piece of bread. These are maggots," Woloshuk said.
Viteri reached out to Café Intermezzo and spoke with its president by phone, who said they truly regret the isolated incident occurred.
In a statement he said the problem "could not have been generated on our premises."
He said the problem started at its bread supplier with whom it has cut ties.
"All products from the vendor were removed. Not a single crumb or slice of bread from the vendor remains in the facility," the statement said.
That supplier told Viteri by phone it doesn't believe the problem started in its facility, which a Department of Agriculture inspector visited late last week.
The bakery said at this point it's still supplying other airport vendors. In a statement, the airport told Channel 2 Action News it's "awaiting results of the investigation to determine further action."
Woloshuk said a restaurant manager offered him a refund, which he declined. He said he just wants to be sure this won't happen to anyone else.
"My intent is my fellow traveler. I'm in this airport weekly and it makes me pretty angry," Woloshuk said.
Cafe Intermezzo and airport officials told Viteri they take food safety and cleanliness very seriously.
The Department of Aviation does its own inspections of concessions monthly and an airport spokesperson told Viteri starting Friday, it's giving managers of every airport restaurant ultra violet inspection lights so they can independently inspect food shipments.
The Department of Aviation will also start touring food suppliers in the metro area and report any violations to the corresponding authority.
The Clayton County Board of Health told Viteri Tuesday it found no citable violation at the franchise location when they inspected it Friday based on the complaint.
I say that after the can has been emptied by the truck and there is water in the bottom and stinky maggots
maybe they aren’t maggots maybe they are are stink worms, but whatever they are there is nothing like that smell I have ever smelled before, thank God. btw, the trash is in trash bags.........
must have been organic which is loaded with insects and insect bodies as opposed to non organic which is loaded with insecticide.. Take your pick
Cafe Intermezzo is very upscale. Awesome places, I recommend highly. I know one of the owners, she lives near me, and I know her via social and political channels.
The airport deal is really more of a branding / menu / advisory thing, but they don’t control the actual day-to-day management of the airport store. I don’t know, but would bet serious money, that those operations are by a majority ownership, minority partner so that the racial make-up of the operation is politically appropriate for an airport franchisee.
Watching ATL airport graft over the years has been an interesting thing.
For me, I wouldn’t think twice about visiting either the Midtown or Perimeter stores.
Watch out at ATL ping, and see my previous post regarding Cafe Intermezzo.
Add your favorite stories about ATL graft to the the thread.
The fact that Bill Campbell fired Angela Gittens, who had been recognized by her peers as the best airport CEO in the country in the previous year, says about all you need to know about Atlanta mayors using ATL as a source of graft.
One story to illustrate the fallout from the above:
Press Release - Federal Jury Finds City of Atlanta, Clear Channel and Barbara Fouch Conspirators in Multi-Million Dollar Bid-Rigging Case
http://www.hpllegal.com/press-releases/136-press-release-federal-jury-finds-city-of-atlanta-clear-channel-and-barbara-fouch-conspirators-in-multi-million-dollar-bid-rigging-case
An excerpt:
“In a taped deposition, former airport general manager Angela Gittens testified that Mayor Bill Campbell instructed her not to bid the airport advertising contract because he didn’t want to hurt his “friend,” Barbara Fouch.”
I wasn’t aware of that, but Believable!
It is controlled by the City of Atlanta, and not a state airport authority, to help you understand why your statement is so. And see my previous posts.
Ping. See post 1 & 2, then my posts starting with 63.
That makes sense. Its a jobs program and the customer service shows.
Yah, right, he just had them handy, added them to his sandwich in a cramped seat, then complained. And incidentally didn’t take so much as a replacement sandwich.
Atlanta area .... 8<)
I REALLY didn’t want to read this: Traveling 200-220 days a year through Hartsfield.
Yikes! That’s a *lot* of travel!
SOAP AND WATER is your answer...the maggots do not smell....the gaqrbage, the water drainings, the leaky bag, the lack og clenliness is what smeel.....they use maggots to treat infections in the medical profession.....there is no garbage smell, no rancid water....no nothing........MAGGOTS DO NOT HAVE A DISTINCT ODOR....their atmosphere does......wash your garbage can.-----thouroughly.
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