This actually happened to me last month but I've not remembered to post it
until now. Some time earlier in the summer a menu for a Chinese restaurant
was stuck in my mailbox (Hunan Palace on Germantown Parkway in Cordova, TN,
in case anyone here can reference that). On the menu was the notation: We
Deliver! and a sticker with a phone number.

Around here, pretty much the only thing you can get delivered is crappy
pizza, or if you live in a specific geographic area, sandwiches from Jason's
Deli. Occasionally, not often, I get a craving for Chinese food. I usually
drive down the road and get take-out from a restaurant which is a
hole-in-the-wall but appears to be spic-n-span clean (and has an A rating on
the posted - not expired! - certificate from the Dept. of Health).

One night last month I got the craving and didn't feel like driving so I
decided okay, I'll try this place. I picked out the items on the menu I
wanted and then placed the call.

Apparently they had hired a delivery service; they weren't doing the actual
delivery themselves. I got a recorded message which said (paraphrased), "We
no longer deliver for Hunan Palace. We found their lack of sanitation and
pest control to be completely unacceptable. Please go somewhere else for
your Chinese food."

You could have knocked me over with a feather! An independent delivery
service, obviously being paid for their services, checked out the sanitation
in the restaurant and chose to quality over getting a check! How
refreshing!

Jill

jmcquown wrote:

>
> You could have knocked me over with a feather! An independent delivery
> service, obviously being paid for their services, checked out the sanitation
> in the restaurant and chose to quality over getting a check! How
> refreshing!
>
> Jill
>
>

First thing that crossed my mind is that there is a major dispute
between the two of them and the delivery service is throwing mud.

In article >,
says...
> You could have knocked me over with a feather! An independent delivery
> service, obviously being paid for their services, checked out the sanitation
> in the restaurant and chose to quality over getting a check! How
> refreshing!
>
>
>

Or perhaps the delivery service screwed up royally and was fired and is
trying to get back at the restaurant.

--
Peter Aitken
Visit my recipe and kitchen myths pages at www.pgacon.com/cooking.htm

Follow the newspaper, especially the legals....see if there is an
interesting lawsuit brewing. For someone to actually put something on an
answering machine that could be recorded and used as evidence in a libel
suit is stupid to say the least - unless they had proof of which they
speak - watch and see what unfolds. I also agree that you might want to
stop by and just snoop a little - order a take out egg roll - and look over
the counter while you wait.....amazing what some people 'don't' hide.
-ginny