OUR RESTAURANTS ARE DOING NO GOOD TO US WITH THEIR HYGIENE LEVELS!

Walking around the streets of Karachi I noticed how this city have begun brimming with new restaurants and eatery outlets. Dinning has become a growing custom worldwide, but having witnessed Karachi and Lahore myself I can relate more to the duo. Dinning together with family and friends is one fine reason to sit and talk and have a leisurely time with our folks.

There are times when we don’t feel like eating at home and wish to savor ourselves from somewhere outside, be it ordering from any restaurant or going there and eating. Be it either of the two, hoteling has always been a popular mode of enjoyment among families and friends.

However the same places that we consider so close to our hearts and we love going to when start affecting us in the wrong manner to such an extent that the same food starts getting detrimental to our health and we begin losing lives then the same food leaves a sour taste in our mouth.

Food poisoning at kiosks or those small dhabaas has been very common throughout. Irrespective of the fact that they don’t take much care of the hygiene and at the same time serves delicious food, so people don’t bother asking much about the cleanliness. This gives the owner an added leverage to keep cleanliness at its lowest in his priority list.

The same food poisoning issue has become a serious issue in Pakistan because now the high end restaurants are selling stale and low quality food to the consumers. Their façade unveiled when few incidents were reported one after the other and the problem got grievous when a number of cases were reported where people literally died of having stale food.

Sadly Two kids last year in November died after having candy at a shop followed by food at Arizona Grill the meat was kept for more than 3 years, then Buttlers located at Arizona was sealed some time ago because one of their customers in 2015 found out how they dried their utensils inside their toilets and then barbq tonight in Lahore was also sealed a couple of years ago because of extremely low hygiene level. Despondently the same Arizona grill is normally functioning how it used to once again.

A couple of days ago, in a cooking show aired at Masala TV when asked about eating outside the chef himself cautioned the caller that it is better to avoid eating outside because the ‘food authorities’ have warned that the restaurants aren’t keeping up to the hygiene level that they are supposed to.

 If this is the duty of our food authorities to keep a strict check to what’s going on in the kitchens then it is our duty as well to stand against this growing problem. If someone died from some other family, God forbid we can be the next one. By continuing to attend and eat in these restaurants do we show that an incident as big as losing a human life is still not too big a problem that will move us.

People running these restaurants should realize that them being ignorant on their duties can actually take lives, in fact have taken lives.

People come to eat and enjoy and it’s their trust on that restaurant that make them pay such hefty amount for the bill because it’s not just food but a whole package of spending good times together and this is what they look up to. But if such incidents continue to befall us then maybe the food authorities should put full fledge ban on such restaurants and put strict measures to regulate their working.  Because doesn’t matter if we will then have few restaurants running in the country because our lives matter and we cannot keep witnessing cases one after the other. It is the public who pay them and it is the restaurants’ duty to reciprocate the public’s trust with utmost care and carefulness.