Food poisoning at Taylor's Refresher at the Ferry Building?

Ok normally I wouldn't write about this but I'm still recovering from it and need to vent.  Yesterday a group of coworkers and I went to lunch at Taylor's Refresher at the Ferry Building in San Francisco.  I've eaten there dozens of times, and recently had fallen in love with their seared rare ahi burger.  It's topped with a wasabi style dressing and combined with a black & white shake and sweet potato fries makes for an outstanding lunch.  Yesterday I ordered precisely that and paid the price.  By 5 PM I had a severe upset stomach, and by 7 I was bedridden in agony much of the day.  While I normally wouldn't complain or place blame, I know Taylor's did something wrong b/c two of my colleagues experienced the same after eating Ahi Burgers.    

What's worse is I think I know why, all of us received luke warm (or actually room temperature) Ahi Burgers as the place was packed.  What I suspect is the Ahi sat out while the rest of the large order was put together, allowing the tuna to being exposed to room bacteria that ended up resulting in each of us experiencing mild food poisoning.  Well I should say mild b/c I didn't get violently sick though at least one of my colleagues did. 

Comments

Did you call the restaurant? The Health Department? If so, what did they say? Don't you owe it to others who might suffer the same consequence to try to get the situation corrected?

[Beavercat]

That's a very good point. I should have called them up but between blogging and work I forgot. Hopefully I get the word out to enough folks thru this post but probably not. :(

[Brad]

Hey,

I work at Taylor's in St. Helena, and I can definitely say that I am not surprised. I work the register, and people tell me all the time how they disliked the San Fran Taylor's but wanted to give it another try... And they liked it in St. Helena.
I know we keep a careful eye out, especially for that. We have worked out methods to prevent that in St. Helena...
I am VERY sorry you got food poisoning on Taylor's behalf...

If you have any questions about Taylor's food, email me at pwpooh58@gmail.com

Thanks
Brad