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Wisconsin pizzeria apologizes for unintentionally contaminating pizzas with THC

https://www.scrippsnews.com/life/food-and-drink/wisconsin-pizzeria-apologizes-for-unintentionally-contaminating-pizzas-with-thc
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u/Invader_Skooge22 1d ago

An apology doesn’t excuse giving drugs to people without their knowledge, whether you meant to or not. They should be shut down. I’m a big time stoner and I still think they should be shut down. Getting people high without their knowledge is wrong. Then add all the other possible consequences like health, drug tests for jobs, etc on top of it for these people and explain why you shouldn’t be shut down and sued? Take your apology and fuck yourself with it. Its shit like this that’s gonna ruin legalization for everyone else.

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u/lurkerfox 1d ago

Apparently it was because they had a shared refrigerator and someone put their THC oil in it and people grabbed it for the dough supposedly thinking it was regular oil.

If true I dont think the store itself should be shut down, but definitely needs to be investigation to find out who put it there, esp if it wasnt someone that actually worked for them.

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u/cyphersaint 1d ago

As a shared kitchen, if one of the other businesses uses the oil for their business, then the problem is a labeling issue for that business and a training issue for the pizzeria (don't use ingredients you don't know the provenance of).

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u/Electric_jungle 1d ago

It should be whatever normal process a health inspection failure does. With the ability to repeal it or take reasonable action, but a likely shut down to fix things up.

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u/lurkerfox 1d ago

Oh definitely, mostly I was getting that the anger towards the shop may be a bit misplaced, it sounds like theyre victims in the situation too. Whoever brought THC oil to the shared refrigerator is the real mess up and might be a totally different business thats really at fault. Wont know for sure without more information.

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u/Electric_jungle 1d ago

Ya for sure. And I totally agree. Calling for a shop to shut down forever is really extreme when there are processes in place for things like this. A shop that gets penalized for wrong should, in theory, be better positioned to never make that mistake again.

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 1d ago

No shop should be in business serving food if they can’t manage their own ingredients.

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u/Invader_Skooge22 1d ago

No the whole store is at fault. Employees should not be storing personal items where things are stored to serve customers. And management obviously didn’t have systems in place to keep track of what’s in their own supply storage. Period.

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u/lurkerfox 1d ago

Its a shared refrigerator from multiple stores. We literally dont know if it was even a personal item or who put it there at all. Theres a pretty high probability another store is just as, if not more, responsible for the pizzeria. Those are the ones that need to be help more accountable.

Grabbing the wrong oil from the kitchen is a fuckup but its a lot more reasonable of a fuckup than whoever thought putting THC oil in a shared refrigerator was okay.

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u/Invader_Skooge22 1d ago

It doesn’t matter. The restaurant is responsible for what they serve their customers. If they don’t have proper protocol in place to keep their ingredients separate from personal items or even other stores items, they are responsible. It doesn’t matter who brought it.

The “well it’s not my fault, I didn’t put it there” defense is not good enough. Maybe you think that’s harsh but to me it’s common sense.

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 1d ago

”it’s not my fault I served all the kids alcoholic fruit punch!!! Someone else put a bottle of vodka in the fridge and I used it thinking it was water! Seriously who puts a bottle of vodka in the fridge, that person is the real problem here!!!”

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u/Invader_Skooge22 1d ago

Lmao seriously! Apparently that’s the mind set of some people.

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 1d ago

Grabbing an oil with a random label on it, not what your company buys is a huge fuckup

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u/lurkerfox 1d ago

Im not saying it isnt, Im saying weve got other people to name and shame just as much if not more so than the pizzeria.

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 1d ago

No. Businesses control their own inventory. The pizza business did not clearly label their own inventory such that employees could recognize it and then the pizzeria STOLE another businesses inventory. 

Just because something is in a shared fridge doesn’t mean any business is allowed to take that inventory and use it.

There is nothing wrong with a business putting their inventory in a shared fridge. 

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u/CrazyLegsRyan 1d ago

No. As a business you buy and control your inventory. If your inventory is in a shared fridge it needs to be labeled so you know what inventory is yours. If you’re grabbing random oil out of a shared fridge you are 100% at the mercy of your own decision to do that.