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Article: LOCAL RESTAURANTS CHECK THEIR PEANUT BUTTER
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- February 24, 2007
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The salmonella scare involving peanut butter has cost Roanoke
restaurant owner Doug Robison more than $50 and a batch of fresh
brownies.
Robison, owner of Wildflour Cafe on Fourth Street in the Old
Southwest neighborhood, said his employees discovered the restaurant
was using the suspect Peter Pan spread at just about the time a pan
heaped with peanut butter fudge brownies popped out of an oven last
week.
"We threw them all out," Robison laments. Trashed were about 60
brownies, which sell for $2.25 each. "It's a chunk of change," he
said.
Restaurants around town have been dutifully checking their peanut
butter stock for the tainted supply, identified by a code number from
the manufacturer, ...