Chapter 181
Su Yuanzheng brought several comrades into the kitchen. It was five o'clock in the afternoon and there were already some diners in the restaurant. Everyone was a little confused by this sudden situation.
Someone asked: "Food hygiene? Did someone get poisoned?"
After these words were spoken, everyone looked at the food in their hands, unsure whether they should continue eating.
Su Miao said, "Just now, the uncle from the Food Inspection Bureau said that they would check all the restaurants that the reported patients had eaten at within two days. It sounds like a pretty wide range. Besides, it hasn't been confirmed yet that the cause was caused by food from restaurants outside. Everyone, don't panic. The food hygiene in our house is up to standard."
As the boss's daughter, her explanation was not very convincing. After all, everyone can speak for themselves.
At critical moments, we still have to rely on the trust of neighbors and old customers accumulated over time.
Uncle Lin said, "In my opinion, Su Ji doesn't need to be checked. I've been eating at their restaurant for as long as it's been open. It's cleaner than what I cook myself. I even eat leftovers at home. Su Ji sells out everything by 7 o'clock every day. Many people can't even get enough to eat, let alone have any leftovers."
Aunt Wu also said, "I'm old and wake up early, so I go for a walk every day. Su Dazhuang... Oh! No! It's Xiao Su who goes to buy the goods himself every day. Sometimes I ask him to help me buy things at the morning market. The goods he buys are all the freshest, and many neighbors can see them!"
Although some old customers didn't say anything, they picked up their spoons again and started eating with big mouthfuls. This was the best trust, and the doubts in the store disappeared immediately.
The law enforcement officers carefully checked both kitchens and took samples before leaving. As they left, they said to Su Yuanzheng, "We've been checking all day today, and your home's sanitation is the best. However, we still need to take samples for testing according to regulations."
Su Yuanzheng said politely, "Of course it is. You comrades are working so hard to serve the people."
Who doesn't like to be complimented? Several law enforcement officers left with smiles on their faces and headed towards Huang Ji.
Su Miao asked his father to bend down and chirped a cricket beside his ear for a while.
Su Yuanzheng stood up and said to the diners, "The comrades from the Food Supervision Bureau are here to conduct an inspection according to regulations. It's our responsibility to cooperate with the investigation. I'm sorry to interrupt your meal. How about this? I'll give everyone here a braised egg as an apology."
"Oh! Xiao Su, why are you so polite?"
"That's right! We don't know you yet. Everyone just said that the food you cook is fresher than ours. If there are problems at other restaurants, there's no way yours will have any problems!"
Everyone spoke politely, but they didn't slow down at all as they carried the plates to beat the braised eggs. These dozen or so braised eggs made the diners' favorable impression of Su Ji rise rapidly.
I originally thought that the matter was over, but two days later, Huang Ji put up a seal to suspend business for rectification. Everyone rushed to inquire about the situation and found out that there was a problem with his sausage rice.
In the past two days, nearly ten diners developed symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea after eating. Such a concentrated situation was quickly reported, which led to the inspection the day before yesterday.
A total of ten restaurants were investigated, and the problem was finally found in Huang Ji’s sausages.
Afterwards, they followed the clues and found the Lai Fu Sausage Processing Factory. Just as Su Miao guessed, it was just a family workshop opened in a small yard in the suburbs. As for the license shown to Boss Huang, it was fake.
Their family’s skill in making sausages is inherited from their ancestors. They used to be well-known in the village, and people around liked to buy them.
But when it came to Manager Jiang, it narrowed his path.
The spring breeze of reform is blowing everywhere. In the past two years, new factories have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. Manager Jiang can no longer sit still. He is not satisfied with just doing retail business and also wants to increase production and become a supplier.
But there are more than one delicious sausages on the market. In order to increase competitiveness, he came up with ways to reduce costs and pricing.
There are several small private pig farms on the outskirts of the city, which usually sell directly to meat processing plants.
However, daily livestock losses are inevitable in the breeding industry, and pork factories cannot accept some diseased pork. Most of the time, they burn and bury them immediately to ensure that other pigs are not infected.
Manager Jiang contacted them and bought the pigs at a quarter of the normal price.
A pig is so big that even a quarter of it would be a huge sum of money, which is better than burning it directly. The money-grubbers reached an agreement on long-term cooperation.
Manager Jiang uses a mixture of dead pigs and some bad parts of fresh pork to make sausages, so he can price them much lower than the market price.
Generally speaking, as long as the pig does not die from an infectious disease and is steamed at high temperature, if it is not eaten for a long time, some minor adverse reactions will be ignored, and people will just think that they are just feeling unwell.
But the day before yesterday, Manager Jiang had to go to the east of the city to discuss business, so he was lazy and didn't buy fresh pork for a day. So the sausages that day were all made from sick pork.
The pig died overnight, and the weather was so hot that it was a little bad when I made sausages the next day, but I couldn't taste the difference after adding spices.
In this way, people got sick from eating the food, and the fact that sausages were made from dead pigs was exposed and even reported in the newspapers.
Back to Huang Ji, although they can be considered victims to a certain extent, the rice was sold by them after all.
They were greedy for small profits and did not do a good job of controlling food quality. They were ordered to suspend business and rectify the situation, fined 1,000 yuan, and make corresponding compensation to the diners who became sick.
Later, the seal indicating the business was closed for rectification was removed and replaced with a sign saying the shop is for rent. The ground under the big tree was as bustling as ever.
"Hey! Do you know Huang Ji Huang?"
"Who wouldn't know? I heard they lost a lot of money and went bankrupt."
"It's not that they closed down, they just moved to another place. Think about it, they've ruined so many people, even if they keep it open, no one will dare to eat there anymore. It would be better to move farther away and open it under a different name."
"It's such a shame! Those sausages are really delicious. I've bought them so many times. Who knew they were made from dead pigs? Ugh! I feel like throwing up just thinking about it! I'll probably be afraid of sausages from now on."
"Oh, that's unnecessary. Didn't you see it in the newspaper? This is an isolated case. The government will tighten regulations on food hygiene in the future. Not every store is so unscrupulous. Look at Su Ji. They even tried to sell sausages to them, but they had a conscience and didn't buy anything. They're still doing well now."
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When Su Yuanzheng heard this, he was once again glad that he hesitated at the time and listened to his daughter's words. Otherwise, the store he had opened with great difficulty would be in danger. He had to be more cautious in this regard in the future.
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