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Clients find worms in IKEA's food
(Shanghai Daily)
Updated: 2006-10-13 16:19
Beijing health department has begun an investigation into a couple's
unhappy experience at IKEA, because the wife found about 10 worms in a
mushroom while eating at its restaurant, Beijing Daily Messenger reported
today.
The husband, surnamed Gao, said he and his wife dined at IKEA's
restaurant on Saturday.
"My wife thought that the mushroom tasted strange, so she spitted it out,
and found more than 10 worms inside. She then ran to the washroom to be
sick," Gao said.
"Now she feels disgusted when she sees food," Gao said. So he reported
the incident to the Chaoyang District health bureau, seeking an
explanation and apology from IKEA, the globe's biggest furniture retailer.
Chen Yue, market manager of Beijng IKEA, said the health bureau has
checked the restaurant and concluded that it doesn't have a sanitation
problem. And that the worms were inside the mushroom when the suppliers
sold it to the company, and couldn't be seen before they were cooked.
The company tried to compensate Gao with 500 yuan (US$63) but he refused.
Gao said he wanted a reasonable explanation and an apology rather than
compensation.
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