‼‼DO NOT EAT HERE IF YOU LIKE YOUR FOOD SANITARY‼‼
The entire thing is unsanitary; the eating area, the cooking area, the storage area. The only reason they pass health inspection is because the owner knows and bribes the health inspector! She said so herself! The owner not only overcharges for shitty food, but also harasses both her customers and her workers! She has driven off MULTIPLE regulars from the community!! Anyone who has ever worked there or been in the back knows what the kitchen looks like in there. This place is the most disgusting, rancid, negative place to work in, eat in, or even be near!
One employee had her dog inside of the kitchen while open and serving customers, which were actively eating!!! A dog should NEVER be aloud in a "professional" kitchen (though this one is far beyond professional), and especially not while food is being made and customers are ordering and eating!!! The same dog once was hanging out of the employee's car window and almost bit a customer that was walking by.
At one point they were operating WITHOUT A FRIDGE. Ronan (the owner) put bags of ice in there and said "that's how they did it before electricity it will be fine." Despite being told repeatedly by workers to shut down and wait a few days until the fridge was fixed, she refused and forced workers to go on like that.
During the winter the roof in the eating area leaked INCREDIBLY bad and yet again she did nothing to fix it, nor did she close. Water would be dripping on customers as they were trying to order. There is absolutely no way that place doesn't have black mold everywhere!
Not only does she VERBALLY, MENTALLY, and PHYSICALLY ABUSE her employees, after they leave the job she continues to harass them by talking shit about them and their families and lying to current employers in efforts to get them fired from their new job! Employees have left crying COUNTLESS times, a lot of customers have even seen Ronan make her employees cry right there in front of them. She humiliates and embarrasses her employees both behind the scenes and up front, and is clearly not ashamed of it. That just shows the type of person that is running this place; someone that is careless, selfish, rude, and disrespectful to everyone around her.
The current employees there are not fit to be in a food service setting and none of them have their food handlers certificate!!!! They had to scramble to get them before their last health inspection. And of course none of them paid any attention seeing as how they do not follow ANY food safety rules. They put raw meat above sauces, veggies, cheeses, and milk!!!!!! Everything you will find there is cross contaminated. They go from touching money, to meat, to buns, to veggies, and back and forth all over again without washing their hands!!! It's rare to see them wash their hands more than twice a day at max. NOTHING is actually vegetarian or vegan!!! And the owner will make fun of you and talk shit about you in the back if you do order the "veggie" burger (which is cooked in burger grease...).
The oil in the fryer doesn't get changed until it's smoking so bad to the point where it's noticeable!! It is BLACK!!!! In the summer if you're lucky you may even find a fly in your fries from said fryer oil!
Not to mention the fact that the employees AND owner are drunk and/or high on alcohol and/or drugs the ENTIRE time they are there. And not just marijuana; they're actively snorting coke in the back by the outside fridge!!!!!! THAT IS WHO IS COOKING YOUR FOOD.
There is absolutely no class or professionalism in this place. The fact that it is still open is an embarrassment to the community of Ferndale. There should be much more pride than this. This place does not deserve your business or support in any way, shape, or form. PLEASE do not go out of your way to drive HOURS just to be met with disgusting, WAY OVERPRICED food and horrible people. Save yourself about 15 dollars PER BURGER and go to In-N-Out where the food is actually sanitary and high quality. Yes I said it Ronan! In-N-Out is better than your food, and WAY better at that! Hell, even McDonald's is at this point.
The health department needs to be alerted and a higher up needs to go there and observe, not the same lady that takes the bribe every time.
I sincerely hope that no one gets sick from eating here. It is genuinely very concerning for the community. read more