Hazmats Suits & Closing … Just For The Flu?

Oh come on.

The Flu virus spreads like wildfire, and if I went in there to order a burger, but I just happen to catch the flu from touching the table, doorknob or anything in there that I could catch it from after touching my face, I would think I had food poison or something.

I would never go back to shake shack lol. I agree with them. It's just becoming a big deal because it's "shake shack." People do the same thing when someone in their household gets over the Flu or stomach virus, they go on a cleaning and disinfecting spree.

If all the workers got sick, then shake shack would be closed longer, so they did the right thing in my opinion.

[excuse any typos. I don't reread what I write on here lol]

From a Wikipedia page I was just perusing, "Manifestation of Ebola begins with a sudden onset of an influenza-like stage characterized by..."
anyway...better safe than sorry

Hazmat suits for the flu? NO Asbestos maybe.

I have NEVER heard of any restaurant ever closing for 3-4 days for 1 employee with flu symptoms.

It would be better PR to admit what really happened then to stick to a story like that. This Towns too small- we'll know soon enough.

No way I believe it was the flu. Maybe someone puked in a fryer or the machine that makes the Concretes (or whatever they call those super thick shakes).

Go Vegen.Keep eating mad cow burgers.

The Burger That Shattered Her Life.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html?pagewanted=all

What if It Weren't Called Pink Slime?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/opinion/sunday/what-if-it-werent-called-pink-slime.html

Why There's Ammonia in Your Hamburger.

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/why-theres-ammonia-in-your-hamburger/

Please keep your minds open. Shake Shack has been an incredible partner to and supporter of Solar Youth since they opened. They're good corporate citizens and people. Let's see what the facts are as they develop.

On WTNH, they mentioned that the restaurant was contacted by the health department. SO my guess is that the employee was diagnosed with a REPORTABLE ILLNESS (there is a statute that mandates that certain illnesses be reported to the Health Dept, often just for statistical reasons, but sometimes, things need to be done, ie if a restaurant worker gets sick).

My guess is that the employee was diagnosed with hepatitis A, a food-borne, self-limited type of Hepatitis, which was reported to the Health dept. The symptoms of Hepatitis A might be characterized as flu-like. So the Shake Shack is not lying when it says that a worker came down with flu-like symptoms so they closed for cleaning. They would not want to risk breaking the worker's medical confidentiality by actually releasing the specific illness, as most of the other employees probably know who was sick...Not to mention that just the word Hepatitis is more scary than "flu-like"

Perhaps it was a very BAD flu, perhaps a stomach virus - and the employee exhibited, um, symptoms during work. Ew.

Personally, I think this reflects well on Shake Shack. They took a financial hit to be clean. Danny Meyer knows what he's doing. Remember, his positive feedback on New Haven is what brought Mario Batali here. Shake Shack is a good neighbor.

Norovirus a/k/a stomach flu is running rampant in CT. It survives on most surfaces for 2 weeks and is resistant to most cleaning products. If a sick employee threw up all over the place ("flu-like symptoms") then this was a very smart public health decision. And given that people tend to get very sick pretty quickly from the norovirus, it would be easy for sickened customers to assume it was food poisoning.

"Personally, I think this reflects well on Shake Shack. They took a financial hit to be clean. "

You know what; you're absolutely right. I take back my somewhat snarky comment and renounce my initial skepticism. Whatever the cause, they identified the problem and took steps to fix it, which is much better than the alternative, and much more than some other businesses might have done.