Article: LOCAL RESTAURANTS CHECK THEIR PEANUT BUTTER

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, ...

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