City Attorney Releases List of Restaurant Workers with Tainted Safety Certificates
The San Francisco City Attorney's office has released a list of workers whose food safety certification are invalid as the result of a scandal involving questionable testing and certification procedures by two or three Department of Public Health inspectors.
jwrb/Flickr Workers at Burger King will have to re-certify.
The list details hundreds of names, along with their restaurants and two companies that administered the food safety exams: the National Restaurant Association's ServSafe program, and the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals.
The roster suggests the suspected fraud occurred mainly among food service workers at casual and low-cost restaurants -- several of them chains -- in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area: taquerias, Asian mom and pops, fast food joints, coffee shops, creperies, burger restaurants, pizzerias, and deli counters. A quick reading of the list didn't turn up any upscale restaurants, and very few moderately priced establishments.
Kevin Westlye, director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, told SFoodie that only two of his association's members were on the list. "The whole idea of the Department of Public Health is to ensure public safety," he said, "and to have instructors cheating the system -- as these individuals are alleged to have done -- is disappointing." Westlye said the GGRA conducts safety certification classes of its own in both English and Spanish, but uses an independent, state-licensed proctor to administer the exam -- a fail-safe measure to avoid the kind of fraud alleged in this case.
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