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Applebee’s Restaurants in Valley Need Good Scrubbing; Nearly Half Failed Recent Health Inspections

  More than one rotten Applebee's restaurant is spoiling the bunch. Health inspection reports show that some Applebee's facilities are clean, with well-trained employees. But we're troubled by health inspections reports on many of the chain's Phoenix-area eateries. Maricopa County restaurant inspection reports show that 10 of 22 Applebee's in the...
By Ray SternJanuary 6, 2011
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More than one rotten Applebee’s restaurant is spoiling the bunch.

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Ten more were rated only “silver,” which really isn’t that great, either, (though we noticed a few of the silvers had recent gold ratings.) Only two Applebee’s received a “gold” rating on their most recent inspection: 13756 West Bell Road in Surprise and 2501 West Happy Valley Road in Phoenix. We’re guessing the district manager for Arizona lives in the north Valley area.

Scanning through the most poorly rated locations turns up more than a few of the type of violations we find vomit-inducing, such as mice poop, filthy drink-dispenser nozzles and the failure of employees to wash hands.

Seems like a bit of company-wide training is needed.

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Ray Stern is the former news editor of Phoenix New Times. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He’s won numerous awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club’s Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.

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