Norwalk outbreak at Olive Garden

[gumdropper1]

The article doesn't say so, but this looks like Norwalk.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/...e/restaurant_i llness

[johnlp]

The local news here stated Norwalk as being the suspected viral agent![img]smileys/smilies_06.gif[/img]


My god will this ever end?[img]smileys/smilies_11.gif[/img]

[californiagirl]

The local news here stated Norwalk as being the suspected viral agent![img]smileys/smilies_06.gif[/img]


My god will this ever end?[img]smileys/smilies_11.gif[/img]

Jusy what I was thinking!!!! My daughter wanted to go out to lunch today, but with all this crap going around, there's no way we were going to!! This is getting waaaaaay out of hand!

[christianne]

I saw the same thing---and I adore Olive Garden!!! It also said that they were focusing on an employee who had similar symptoms before the outbreak as a possible cause.

Again, why do people insist on going to work ill?? Look, I know sometimes people do not have sick days and cannot afford to call in, but I know at places like restaurants they do not force you to work when you're truly sick. I've worked at many before and they all said the same thing---"if you are ill, we don't want you here." And if this restaurant made this employee go to work sick, they should be seriously reprimanded for that.

Aaargh!! Sorry for the rant, but this really p*sses me off!!!Edited by: christianne

[johnlp]

Lord we just ordered Italian food for delivery![img]smileys/smilies_05.gif[/img]WHat was I thinking?


GARLIC! GARLIC IS GOOD!


...well so long as it's not tainted with Norwalk![img]smileys/smilies_12.gif[/img]


I'm so tired I am about to reach the point of wanting to just get it and get it over with! I hate the feeling of inevitablilty![img]smileys/smilies_06.gif[/img]

[todzwife]

Lovely...doesn't make me want to eat anything. EVER.[img]smileys/smilies_11.gif[/img]

[e-lizabeth]

I remember the winter of 2002-2003 in Toronto, Norwalk was EVERYWHERE. Hopsital wards were closing, it was crazy. And the worst part was, I was working in Media Relations at the local health unit, and I had to spend my entire day every day for like 3 weeks in December talking about Norwalk outbreaks to reporters. It was a freaking nightmare.


I did not catch it, nor did anyone I know.

[kellybean]

E-lizabeth, I remeber that. It was all over sounthern Ontario. That is when my emet got really really bad.


It seems like it gets worse everyday. I don't want to eat anything anymore.

[donna1216]

I have worked in may restaurants, and my husband made a living as a bartender before he got his degree; he still works bartending on weekends for extra $. And I know that restaurants DO NOT let you call in--they do not care. They would rather have the staffing. I was at work once (before the restaurant opened) and luckily I wasn't in the bathroom at the time, when 2 or 3 girls ran out and said, "casey is puking in there!!" Our manager said, "she's probably hungover. It's her own fault". THe girl came out and said that she AHD NOT been drinking the night before, that she was sick--they made her stay!!! (This was before I had kids and my emet was the way it is now, or I would have called the Health Dept.). My husband has gotten sick v'ing twice in recent years at work and has had to stay because there was noone to fill in. I don't know if Health Departments are aware of restaurants' attitudes toward employee illness or not!! I want to call and let them know!!!

[tree1211]

I saw the same thing---and I adore Olive Garden!!! It also said that they were focusing on an employee who had similar symptoms before the outbreak as a possible cause.

Again, why do people insist on going to work ill?? Look, I know sometimes people do not have sick days and cannot afford to call in, but I know at places like restaurants they do not force you to work when you're truly sick. I've worked at many before and they all said the same thing---"if you are ill, we don't want you here." And if this restaurant made this employee go to work sick, they should be seriously reprimanded for that.

Aaargh!! Sorry for the rant, but this really p*sses me off!!!

I agree that makes my blood boil.


WHY DO PEOPLE BRING THEIR STANKIN A$$ES TO WORK SICK???[img]smileys/smilies_07.gif[/img]


All it does is infect other people, phewww girl that makes me MAD!!! And obviously the person that was sick wasn't very clean because it's spreading, cover your mouth and keep your damn hands clean. NO STAY HOME!!

[kasey]

I have never been a fan of Olive Garden.


Seriously, I am cooking for the rest of my life...or until my phobia is cured

[sheri-baby]

i just read donna's post...i had posted something very similar...my husband tried to call in sick last year..he had v*, d* fever...he is a bartender...they told him he had to come in, because that had no one to cover his shift...he did go in and left a few hours later, becuase he was so sick, but imagine, he was making drinks and garnishing them!!!...one thing in this business is most managers are too f***ing lazy to work themselves..so someone calling in sick means they might actually have to do something!!...this is why i hate going out...i see this kind of stuff all the time...cooks sick, waiters, bartenders...

[marieb73]

Donna, anyone who has worked in retail or the food industry can back you up! Both are notorious for understaffing or staffing the "perfect" amount of employees so that no one can call in sick.


What these restaurants need are some heavy fines by the health board or some nice lawsuits. Then they'll change their tune quickly.

[dord]

Here''s where I get confused on just how this stuff is spread. I thought it was strictly fecal-oral route...so, am I to believe that people are preparing food with feces on their hands? Are they vomiting and then wiping their mouths with their hands? This just seems unbelievable to me. Also - how is it spread so rampantly in schools where even the teachers are getting it? I want to believe that it's strictly oral-fecal route but if that were true it would seem less likely contracted if you ask me. Either way I'm having a hard time this year...seems like it's inevitable that someone in my family is going to come down with it and I've got a houseful this Christmas, I'm going to be a nervous wreck!!

[kasey]

Here''s where I get confused on just how this stuff is spread. I thought it was strictly fecal-oral route...so, am I to believe that people are preparing food with feces on their hands? Are they vomiting and then wiping their mouths with their hands? This just seems unbelievable to me. Also - how is it spread so rampantly in schools where even the teachers are getting it? I want to believe that it's strictly oral-fecal route but if that were true it would seem less likely contracted if you ask me. Either way I'm having a hard time this year...seems like it's inevitable that someone in my family is going to come down with it and I've got a houseful this Christmas, I'm going to be a nervous wreck!!

Because the smallest amount of feces can make you sick.


They go to the bathroom...They don't wash their hands or don't wash them properly...They fix your food...You ingest...You ingest their feces. Lovely isn't it?


I am a nervous wreck also...Christmas is huge in my family and their are tons of kids...oh well, it's part of it.

[dord]

Yes, I will keep my Ativan close by and plenty of vodka martini mix (I'm a drinking emet, in moderation of course).I just wish I could enjoy being with everyone instead of constantly worrying if someone is going to get sick. I hate, hate, hate my phobia!!!

[angeltearsMC]

There was an outbreak at an Indianapolis school as well...



http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...20066122 10519



and here's the local paper's article about diners suing over the Olive Garden outbreak...


http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...20066122 00493



I was in a town just outside of Indy all last week for Christmas
(family) and was freaking out the whole time about catching this stupid
virus.



Not to mention that my stupid father decided to mention (about an hour
after I pulled into town) that a horrible *sv was going around the
country and that he had talked to his brother (my uncle) in Nashville
earlier that week and he said he had been proj *v all morning.
And now a friend's family in Florida has been sick with the *sv.



God, I hate this. Anyone know how easy it would be to get a prescription for an antiemetic?


Edited by: angeltearsMC

[grgygrl]

My brother who lives in Indianapolis, got sick from the Olive Garden a few weeks ago. He had wicked d* and his g/f was v*ing ..

[silver]

I worked in several restaurants when I was in college. I quit one on the spot because one of the cook was v* into the trash can in the back while cooking bacon!! I know that people go to work sick because the restaurant doesn't want to be short staffed. I still eat at restaurants even after all of the s*** that I have seen. It makes me really angry too...the managers should know better...If someone has even d* or ANY type of stomach or intestinal distress, then they should NOT be around food!!! How hard is this?? Then these restaurant managers act baffled when 300 people get sick!! How stupid are they? I hate this!!