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Two shows I sometimes watch on television are "Restaurant Impossible" and "Bar Rescue". They both deal with failing restaurants or bars that call in a consultant to help them fix their businesses. The terrible and gross things that are in the kitchens on those shows far exceeds anything I read about in McDonalds. In some shows, the consultant has gone into the business and immediately kicked all the customers out and shut down the restaurant or bar until it could be fumigated, cleaned, and the personnel retrained in proper food handling procedures. Yet, these places had gone on for years without the health department shutting them down. We seem to complain about government regulations (and enforcement of those regulations) hurting business, and then we are amazed when businesses take shortcuts to cut costs and improve profits. The owner of this Mcd's fixed the problem right away as soon as it startied costing him money and lots of bad publicity. Restaurants are tough businesses. Most of them fail. But when someone opens a restaurant they have a first obligation to follow all rules to protect the public health, no matter how inconvenient it may be.