Starbucks Food Poisoning

“Iced Carmel Cloud Macciato
Drank one and began feeling ill about an hour later. Stomach pains, nausea and eventually vomiting. Yikes. ”

“Report date: Jun 25, 2020
40. Personal cleanliness
- comments: observed that employees wore watches on hands while working with exposed food. Must not wore unproved jewelry on hands while working with exposed food

49. Non-food/food contact surfaces clean
- comments: must clean food debris build up from counter tops,wheel... See More bases of all equipment.

54. Garbage & refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
- comments: noted outside garbage dumpster overloaded and preventing proper lid closure. Must keep dumpsters covered at all time. Priority foundation violation 7-38-020(b) no citation issued

55. Physical facilities installed, maintained & clean
- comments: noted the following:floors throughout premise especially along wall base and underneath equipment with dirt and food debris, instructed to detail clean and sanitize. Must upgrade housekeeping.

Source: chicago.gov ”

“Report date: Jun 24, 2020
5. Procedures for responding to vomiting and diarrheal events
- comments: observed clean-up of vomiting and diarrhea procedure on site but clean-up kit on premises during inspection observed to be blood borne pathogen clean up kit with out proper sanitizing solution and no mop for... See More vomit clean up. Instructed to have said procedure along with required equipment for clean-up. Priority foundation violation. No citation issued. 7-38-005

22. Proper cold holding temperatures
- comments: found tcs food at improper temperature: 3 ham sandwiches 54 f,veggie wraps 55 f ,6 ham & cheese sandwiches 55 f,28 egg bites 54-55 f,mentioned products were stored inside the reach under cooler. Food discarded and denatured by employee. Priority violation:7-38-005,no citation issued.

33. Proper cooling methods used; adequate equipment for temperature control
- comments: observed improper temperature of reach under refrigerator at 60. 9 f with tcs foods stored inside for sale. A held for inspection tag has been placed on unit. Once repaired,fax or email to cdph. Must have cold holding foods at 41. 0 f or below. (priority violation) 7-38-005 no citation issued

40. Personal cleanliness
- comments: observed that employee wore rings on hands while working with exposed food. Must remove all jewelry except plain wedding band from hands while working with exposed food

48. Warewashing facilities: installed, maintained & used; test strips
- comments: facility uses high temperature sanitizing dish machine and doesn't have proper temperature measuring irreversible registering temperature indicator or thermometer that shall be provided and readily accessible for measuring the utensil surface temperature during hot water sanitation. Priority foundation violation 7-38-005 no citation issued

51. Plumbing installed; proper backflow devices
- comments: backflow prevention devices not located at ice machine. Must install so backflow prevention devices or air gap between the water supply inlet and the unit so it may be located to be serviced and maintained.

54. Garbage & refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained
- comments: observed outside garbage dumpsters lids not covered with trash inside. Must keep outside garbage area maintained and dumpster covered at all times. (priority foundation 7-38-020(b) no citation issued

Source: chicago.gov ”

“Caramel machiato they developed a few hours after drinking my macchiato. I got really bad indigestion, bad gas, nausea, I thew-up, and the next day all day ive had diarrhea, bad cramping like im going to have a baby. bloating whats wrong with that place ”

“At 2:30pm I ordered a Frappuccino and within approximately an hour later began having nausea along with severe cramps and hot flashes. It’s been an additional hour since then and I’m now having diarrhea. ”

“I had the Impossible Sandwich this morning and got sick. I'd eaten the Impossible Whopper before, Impossible White Castles, and more upscale Impossible burgers at restaurants and have similar results each time, but I'd not tried an Impossible sausage product before. Same results - nausea and watery diarrhea all day... See More and an overall feeling of sickness. My hope was that with a smaller puck of meat and the sausage variety would make a difference, but I have a consistently bad reaction to Impossible products regardless of the restaurant. Sticking with Beyond Meat and avoiding Impossible products. - a sad vegetarian ”

“Violent vomiting within 20 minutes of starting to drink hot caramel macchiato ”

“I got food poisoning from here ”

“My boyfriend and I ordered both an iced vanilla latte as we always do. It tasted a little funny but just thought that because not all the places are the same so they might use slightly different measurements etc. I drunk the whole drink and started to feel ill with... See More nausea about an hour or so after drinking it. My boyfriend on the other hand drunk about half of it and started feeling nauseous about 10 minutes after it and threw up about 5 minutes later. ”

“I used purchased Starbucks Caramel Sauce and Ghiardelli Caramel syrup in a cup and then used a Caribou Coffee Obsidian K-cup
I used Starbucks Caramel Syrup in a homemade cup of coffee (Caribou Obsidian 2 shots) and almost 9 hours later I got violent diarrhea,  Just me.  The symptoms took... See More about 12 hours to kick in.  I have a sluggish digestive system ”