Ah, Rats!

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
Joshua Brustein, an editor at Gotham Gazette and E. Charles Hunt, executive vice president of the New York City Chapters of the New York State Restaurant Association, discuss restaurant health inspections and the recent spate of closings in the wake of the rat sightings at a Greenwich Village fast food restaurant. We also heard from Michael Frank, manager of John's Pizzeria and Charles Milite, co-owner of Union Square's Coffee Shop.

The Gotham Gazette article rounding up recent restaurant news
NYC Dept. of Health restaurant inspection results

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