Restaurants Filthy, nasty, disgusting [Archives:2002/17/Health]

BY MOHAMMED BIN SALLAM
YEMEN TIMES STAFF
We read and perhaps heard a lot about the clean environment, protection consumption societies, municipal, tourism and other nomenclatures which are dealt in details by the media and therefore, we haven’t seen any change at all. These restaurants suggest modernity and elegance and therefore, they haven’t been monitored or supervised by the concerned bodies. I have visited some of these restaurant and discovered that they are infected with so many diseases. The striking thing is that flies shares customers their meals.
What adds fuel to the water is that waiters themselves are not submitted to any medical checkups and they are not aware of their appearance. All these can be clearly seen in the capital, Sana’a.
Majority of the local restaurants are haunted by foreigners and strangers who have the desire to know much about these restaurants, the services they offer and ways to cook different Yemeni recipes . This is what we see with our own eyes ( waiters, food, table). We don’t know what is going on behind the scenes, (cooks, cooking, washing dishes and the like).
The majority of those who visit these restaurants are from villages and not permanent residents of cities. They of course are not able to eat in magnificent restaurants, so they have to go to such poor restaurants, where there is no interest or good services. It is deplorable to see several people infected of several diseases and the concerned bodies should held accountable and those who remiss in their duties should be punished.



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