Only in California..
County pulls plug on free coffee, doughnuts at Camarillo store
Ty Brann likes the neighborly feel of his local hardware store. The fourth-generation Ventura County resident and small business owner has been going to the B & B Do it Center on Mobile Avenue in Camarillo for many years. His company, Kastle Kare, does pest control, landscaping and plant care, and he’s a B & B regular.
So when he learned the county had told B & B it could no longer put out its usual box of doughnuts and coffee pot for the morning customers, Brann was taken aback.
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An anonymous customer complaint to the county brought health inspectors to the store, who determined its tradition of more than 15 years of offering coffee and doughnuts to customers violated food-handling regulations.
“We’ve been doing this since we bought the place 15 years ago and the previous owner was doing it, too,” said Randy Collins, 42, co-owner with his parents of B & B. “We simply weren’t aware we were causing a problem.”
Inspectors told Collins that unless he was willing to install stainless-steel sinks with hot and cold water and have a prep kitchen to handle the food, he was violating the law.
Hey, there’s an idea for the Fort Wayne Health Department!
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Maybe they could add some good Pharma to the doughnuts and get by with that.
It was probably because the complaintants were arriving AFTER all of the doughnuts were gone for the day. This was their way of getting back at the store. "If I can't have a doughnut, nobody else will either!"
The specifics of this story aside, I personally feel that "anonymous complaint" is something that needs to go. If you really are a donut nazi you should be brave enough to wear it.