Le 2014-02-05 15:44, Le_Forgeron a écrit :
> Le 05/02/2014 21:00, Stephen nous fit lire :
>> On 05/02/2014 2:39 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> Don't get me started on them...
>>
>> If it weren't serious it would be funny.
>>
>> I've read of a restaurant that was closed because their microwave had
>> the On/Off switch in English. Another was a report of a Chinese
>> Restaurant that was closed because the Chinese name, in ideograms, was
>> above the name in French.
>>
>> I don't know if the stories are true but I read it on the BBC website.
>> If that helps.
>>
> It might have been the reasons given by the owners... Notice, both were
> restaurants... Most usual reason to close a restaurant, by authority, is
> dangerous hygiene:
> * freezing unsold cooked food (to save for another day)
> * using/storing out-of-date food
> * fungus
> * not respecting forward-walk or cold-chain
> * reported and confirmed illness due to contamination
> * infestation by various colonies (rodent, cockroach, ... )
>
> But let not forget another reason: bankrupt, due to lack of customers,
> flying away waiters and waitresses due to unpaid over-hours, and most
> interesting: taxes.

On that topic, the provincial government instituted new rules for 
restaurants and reporting sales, to cut down on tax evation, as mulitple 
restaurants would "forget" to report sales paid in cash, or had modified 
POS terminals that did not register all sales.

Mysteriously - by pure coincidence, I'm sure - many restaurants closed 
in the weeks following this law being enacted, including very popular, 
trendy restaurants.


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