Chapter 159 Thirteen Spices was closed down
The Thirteen Spices Hot Pot Restaurant was not far from Yuqin Huafu, and it took no more than ten minutes to walk there. However, she did not go back there, but took a taxi directly back to Shengshi Haoting.
The next day, all major news television stations and online media reported that the Thirteen Spices Hotpot Restaurant had been closed down.
The General Administration of Industry and Commerce of City B found the banned ingredient papaverine in the hot pot base collected from the Thirteen Spices Hot Pot branch on Qili Street in XC District, causing an uproar in the entire catering industry of City B.
Not only that, but the spread of the popular food broadcaster’s broadcast sparked a huge amount of discussion online, and even made it into the top ten of the national hot search list.
The impact far exceeded Tang Qi's original plan, but she was happy to see such a result.
The Thirteen Spices Hotpot Restaurant is a famous hotpot restaurant brand in City B. It has been exactly four years since its establishment. From a small shop of less than 100 square meters, it has developed into a chain restaurant company with more than ten branches. It has been rated as the City B's annual outstanding catering brand for three consecutive years.
As a result, such a huge scandal broke out, not only did the B city government lose face, but the XC District Industrial and Commercial Bureau was also humiliated.
They went to this store twice last year to investigate and collect evidence, and finally confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the store. They also issued a special notice.
The exposure of the hidden dangers of the Shisanxiang hotpot restaurant has attracted great criticism from the Xicheng Catering Workers' Union, and it has also questioned whether the XC District Industrial and Commercial Bureau has accepted bribes in the past few years and intentionally protected Shisanxiang.
In short, the Thirteen Spices Hotpot has completely lost its popularity, and all its branches have been closed down.
The situation at Shisanxiang's head office was also not peaceful. Someone reported that Shisanxiang Catering Company had committed serious tax evasion. The financial statements, vouchers, account book materials, and computer hosts were taken back by the tax bureau for investigation.
In just a few days, the thirteen-spice hotpot, which was once popular throughout the city, has become a topic of conversation among people after dinner.
This led to a rectification hurricane in the entire catering industry in City B.
All catering industries, including but not limited to snack bars, street stalls, fast food, barbecue, milk tea, etc., are subject to strict inspection, and countless stores have been ordered to rectify and closed down.
Some are happy, some are sad.
Tao Siqi complained to Tang Qi on WeChat, "If I had known that the boss of Shisanxiang was so wicked, I would never have eaten there. Oh, what should I do? The four of us just ate there two days ago. Will there be any problem with our health? Zhang Ke was so scared that he wanted to go to the hospital for a checkup. 】
Tang Qi comforted them, "The content of papaverine in the hot pot base is extremely low. We eat the cooked food and do not drink the soup base. The amount of papaverine we ingest is so slight that it can be ignored and can be quickly metabolized and excreted from the body. Don't worry."
Otherwise, she wouldn't have brought Tao Siqi and the other three to eat there.
When Tao Siqi was eating chicken, she always mentioned Thirteen Spices. She thought that after this incident, there would never be Thirteen Spices hotpot again, so she wanted to let the three of them have one more meal to put an end to the idea.
Speaking of which, it was thanks to Tao Siqi's repeated mention that she remembered that the Thirteen Spices Hotpot Restaurant was opened by Yang Xiaoqing's family.
At noon that day, she passed by the Thirteen Spices Hot Pot Restaurant and on a whim, she went in to have a meal. As a result, the intelligent computer Xiaoba discovered that there was something wrong with the base of the pot.
After dinner that day, she returned to Yuqin Huafu and looked up Thirteen Spices Hotpot on the Internet. She found out that on average, the restaurant was reported and investigated every year, but it always ended up being safe and sound.
Xiao Ba said there was something wrong with the bottom of the pot, so there must be something wrong. Did the Industrial and Commercial Bureau really not find anything, or did they cover it up? After careful consideration, she tended to think that the Industrial and Commercial Bureau really did not find any problems.
Adding prohibited item poppy shell powder to the bottom of the pot is not simply illegal operation, it is the crime of selling drugs. There are more than a dozen chain stores of Thirteen Spices Hotpot, with sales reaching tens of millions.
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The people at the Industrial and Commercial Bureau don't have the guts to cover up for him.
As for not being able to detect the prohibited substances at the bottom of the pot, Tang Qi looked up some information...
(End of this chapter)