This is a great eye opener to some, re; news on one. We took over a restaurant that the cockroaches would eat all the chocolate from within the wrapper of chocolate bars. You honestly would not have known until you picked up the pkts. It was a case of closing , fumigating and relaunching. That was one of the first things we did with other food premises we took on. How the place webought ever kept its doors opened amazed us. We got 2 buckets full of roaches. The good news is they never returned, after the professional fumigation.
elliehen,
Sep 25, 6:52am
Auckland looks like the cockroach capital of the world!
nfh1,
Sep 25, 7:00am
Hope these are not restaurants I have used!
pickles7,
Sep 25, 7:36am
scary as.... elliehen... carrot salad with that, madam??? They will be more the fast serve, stir fry eateries. Not the top end of dining. What sort of dinner, are you...nfh1...? Roaches are devils for staying hidden at day time, they hide in motors in fridges etc. If you see a roach during daylight hours you have a major problem. I was looking at a house to buy as a rental once. I opened the oven and the scurrying of tiny feet deafened me. lol. That was not in Auckland, they are everywhere. You can also bring them home in your bags etc, from work.
nfh1,
Sep 25, 8:23am
I am a Mission and Vidals sort of a girl pickles, with regular trips to the local Thai!!!
uli,
Sep 25, 8:32am
No need to - they can FLY!
nfh1,
Sep 25, 8:34am
they can???
How far?
elliehen,
Sep 25, 8:44am
Are cockroaches low carbers?
pickles7,
Sep 25, 8:48am
We have the big black wood ones here. They don't like it inside thank goodness, you could make a meal out of some of them. They don't fly, they too plump.
nfh1,
Sep 25, 8:49am
faints!
pickles7,
Sep 25, 8:57am
pickled cockies,how do you think they would go. looked better than singular. lol
uli,
Sep 25, 9:00am
The big black wood ones are a native and they don't like it inside of the house.
What you need to be worried about is if you see one of those small brown narrow ones cause if you see one or two during the day then you have a major infestation on your hands!
They flew over the harbour in Martinique - that is quite a distance - all boats had them in the end - even though they were on anchor in the Bay. And everyone unpacked everything on the dinghy dock after shopping, so no packaging went onto the boats - to no avail ... best way to get rid of them by the way is not chemicals but glue traps with a dried shrimp in the middle of the glue pad.
pickles7,
Sep 25, 9:11am
I kept an egg sac from a native one, but it has not hatched or even grown, three months on.
uli,
Sep 25, 9:47am
Not something that you experienced yourself though - just a report in todays news:
"...Pictures obtained by ONE News showed extremely filthy kitchens, open food kept next to cleaning mops, open food containers, dirty stoves and roach infestations. In one picture, raw chicken juice was seen dripping into an open bag of carrots...."
It won't if you just kept it inside - they need moisture to live - which is why they die after a few days in your house if taken in with the firewood.
elliehen,
Sep 25, 9:51am
"One picture is worth a thousand words."~ Old adage
pickles7,
Sep 25, 10:39am
Easy. Walk in and close them!!! Close all the D and E grade food outlets . It is not as if anyone will go hungry.
crystalmoon,
Sep 25, 8:16pm
So crazy why these places are allowed to stay open with a D cert.Close the lot of them.
uli,
Sep 25, 10:15pm
Now now - this is too sensitive a subject isn't it? You can't just close a food place - you would have all sorts of legal problems LOL :)
skippie1,
Sep 25, 10:48pm
uli, what about the health problems people get when they have eaten food from those places.
uli,
Sep 25, 10:56pm
Good question skippie1 - ask the Council I would suggest. I know from up here that they can only slap fines and ultimatums on the owners of the food place - and in theory they have to comply. But it seems to be very difficult to close them down outright. I know of only one case here where that happened - and that took months, all the while the cockroaches crawled all over the place ...
pickles7,
Sep 25, 11:22pm
It used to be you would not get closed as long as you were making an effort to comply. In the cases we saw on the news those outlets would have been served several notices. A lot of those places have other outlets, they keep moving. Puts another slant on....eating healthy, doesn't it.
Close them!!!
crystalmoon,
Sep 25, 11:23pm
I must admit,I am more likely to look for the food grade cert now,especially when it is somewhere I havnt eaten before.So I suppose we can decide with our feet wether to custom such places.
buzzy110,
Sep 25, 11:40pm
Yep. They certainly can. Shook hands with one that was gently wafted into my hotel room high in the Hawaiian sky, riding a sultry summer breeze. It is tricky to shake hands with a left-handed, six legged creature I can tell you.
It was huge so I carefully put my heavy suitcase onto it to squash it but the next morning I discover my 30kg (could carry more luggage back then) suitcase had been gently moved over by about 1 meter and my new best friend was gone!!
Ah those were the days. I should have asked it for the best restaurants to visit during my stay.
pickles7,
Sep 25, 11:48pm
yes...crystalmoon... that was even knew to me. We only had a small bit of paper sellotaped on the wall somewhere sort of out of view. I guess that alone will hurt some dodgy food outlets. I spent an afternoon in Rotorua not that long ago going into the Asian spice outlets, the general condition of most of the premises,were, they were so overstocked, I gave more thought to a way out the door in case of fire.
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