Scam targets restaurant owners
Scam targets restaurant owners: "The letter seemed legit, said Pat’s Steak House owner Pat Francis, just another in a seemingly endless stream of restaurant regulations.
Sent by the Kentucky Food Service Compliance Center, it said restaurants must buy and put up $18.95 posters reminding employees to wash their hands.
Those who didn’t faced up to $2,500 in fines and could possibly lose their license, the letter said.
“It just seemed typical,” said Francis, who spent $82.70 for four posters. “They keep passing these new laws all the time so I just figured they passed another one.”
But this one, it turned out, was a scam — one that went far beyond Francis’ Brownsboro Road steak house.
In the past few months, hundreds of restaurant owners across Kentucky have received similar letters notifying them of a new law that the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office says doesn’t exist."
Sent by the Kentucky Food Service Compliance Center, it said restaurants must buy and put up $18.95 posters reminding employees to wash their hands.
Those who didn’t faced up to $2,500 in fines and could possibly lose their license, the letter said.
“It just seemed typical,” said Francis, who spent $82.70 for four posters. “They keep passing these new laws all the time so I just figured they passed another one.”
But this one, it turned out, was a scam — one that went far beyond Francis’ Brownsboro Road steak house.
In the past few months, hundreds of restaurant owners across Kentucky have received similar letters notifying them of a new law that the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office says doesn’t exist."
posted by Adrian Eyre at 2:25 PM
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