Yankee Stadium is a haven of luxurious promoting and massive cash. If a baseball park married a high-end shopping center, Yankee Stadium can be the spoiled-rich offspring. However at 79.1 p.c of the stalls, bars, and different retailers serving meals throughout video games, a minimum of one high-level violation of meals security requirements was dedicated over a two yr interval. And Yankee Stadium is not even the worst sports activities venue for meals security in America, in response to a brand new evaluation from ESPN’s Outdoors the Traces of well being inspection stories at 111 sports activities venues all through the USA.
Inspecting 4 skilled leagues—the MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL—and 16,000 stories filed in 2016 and 2017, ESPN’s evaluation confirmed that venues are gross as shit. After combing by meals security inspection stories revamped the two-year interval, ESPN discovered that at 28 p.c of sports activities venues within the nation, a minimum of half the meals stalls had high-level violations. Meals security violations can unfold food-borne sicknesses.
Excessive-level violations included, per the report:
Rooster, shrimp and sushi festering at harmful temperatures that may breed micro organism; workers wiping their faces with their arms after which dealing with meals for patrons; cooks sweating over meals; beef blood dripping on a shelf; moldy or expired meals; soiled utensils or contaminated gear; and the presence of reside cockroaches and mice. Much less critical however nonetheless icky: soiled flooring, fruit flies, pesky pigeons and, in a single venue, beer leaking from a ceiling.
Festering shrimp. Sweaty meals. Beef blood. We’d by no means get pleasure from a ballpark scorching canine once more.
Yankee Stadium was the worst offender within the MLB by way of variety of retailers throughout the venue with a number of high-level violation. Spectrum Middle, the place the Charlotte Hornets play, was the worst NBA enviornment. Financial institution of America Stadium, dwelling of the Carolina Panthers, was the worst NFL stadium. For the NHL, American Airways Middle, the place the Dallas Stars (and the Mavericks) play, was the worst.
ESPN’s report additionally in contrast sports activities venues with eating places within the surrounding space, discovering that solely 9 sports activities arenas had on common the next price of high-level violations than locations in the neighborhood. Yankee Stadium, for instance, was slapped with fewer high-level violations on common than meals institutions in New York Metropolis. In different phrases, in all places you eat is gross. Stick to creating sandwiches at dwelling.
From: Esquire US
