After suspicious pasta salad (allegedly) took out fifteen New York Times employees who ate it in the paper's cafeteria, The Daily Finance had the bright idea to peruse the health inspection records of the Gray Lady's fancy office eatery. While the cafeteria's most recent inspection resulted in 10 violation points (lower than the city-wide average of 14 points), it's a horse of a different putrid color over at their printing plant in Queens. In February of last year it was cited for "evidence of roaches or live roaches in food and/or non-food areas," "conditions conducive to vermin" and improperly installed or maintained plumbing, earning it 18 violation points. That's not enough to shut it down, but apparently the Times thinks that's good enough for their blue collar workers.
Worst among the city's media cafeterias last year was Reuters, which scored 40 points in its November 2009 visit from the Health Department, mostly due to problems with food temperature and operating conditions. According to The Daily Finance, the winners were those fastidious neat freaks at Google, who just have to be the best at everything, and got just five violation points. Though if you Google "conditions conducive to vermin Google," you'll find the situation isn't entirely vermin free over there.
