mice in restaurant

hippygran

elsien wrote: »

I've had the little buggars in my kitchen for the last few weeks. I don't want to put poison down as I don't want them dying behind my cupboards where I can't reach them, but they are completely ignoring my carefully baited traps. My kitchen has never been so clean, my food is carefully packed in sealed containers. But I still have mice.:( And I am a town dweller -talking to work colleagues it's not as unusual as you might think.

Elsien - try traps baited with chocolate!! (Leave a wee bit of choclate out somewhere they can get at it really easily, but not on a trap, so they get to like the taste). Once they have tasted it they really, really like it. Discovered this because in my 'mouse incident' - he was pinching the shiny silver paper off kit kats (was a while ago), ignoring all bait and eating the chocolate. At one point the pest control company baited a trap with a finger of kit kat. He managed to take off with the whole finger, and not get caught. So they then tried tiny pieces on the trap, and within days it was sorted! It had been going on for weeks previously!

And we only had ONE - a customer saw him actually run in from outside, but we couldn't catch him to turf him out!

scheming_gypsy

It was probably Basil, a Spanish waiters' pet hamster

Jeff_Bridges_hair

bod1467 wrote: »

Howay man - best joke written on this forum all day man :D

elsien

I've tried chocolate, peanuts, snickers (trying the two together!) cheese, tuna, bird seed and rabbit food so far.
I'll try your idea of leaving chocolate out for them to get the taste first though - desperation is setting in and that sounds like it might work.

unholyangel

I'm not sure if this is local to me or something all councils do but....my local council put health inspections online on their site

Very informative reading and lets you know which establishments are likely to make you ill! The reports even say they visited after x patrons became ill with x

Hintza

esuhl wrote: »

Good grief! I should hope that most people have never had mice at home!

It's the rats that I'm after just now, if you have poultry you have rats, mice, squirrels! :rotfl:

The mice don't really worry me too much.

Shelldean

madammim wrote: »

not sure if this is the right place to put this but this is what happened to us today. 3 of us - Grandma, Great Auntie & me (mum) drove down from Bedfordshire to Worcester to visit daughter who is at uni therre and do a bit of shopping. when we began to flag we decided to go to a chain pub for a lunchtime meal. It was very busy which we expected and were advised of a 40 minute wait to be served, fine by us. Once the meal arrived we started tucking in, and halfway into it, a couple dining near us noticed a mouse under our table, pointed it out, then my daughter felt it on her foot. We did jump a bit, but took receipt back to the counter, explaining we did not feel able to continue eating there, whereby management sheepishly refunded the full cost and apologised, explaining they had had rentokill in all week trying to resolve the issue. Should I put in a complaint anyway to Enviornmental Health or the council, and should they be open knowing they have mice running around in the diring areas, or should I at least inform the head office of the chain what happened?

Haven't read anything apart from this post, but my experiance, which was very similar, except the manager wasn't sheepish, he was damm arrogant!!! No one seemed to care, we called the council local to the pub, we called the head officeof the pub. But as we were apprently the only ones who'd ever complained no one cared!!! and yes the manager did know about the problem so people must've complained. And the point the mouse entered the pub was very obvious once we knew, and was obviously in constant use.
Also had to battle for a refund as he didnt see the problem. Got it in the end tho.
Our incident was in Hampshire so not the same pub.

edited to add, I did complain to head office and EHO as the manager was so damm rude. If he'd even apologised, or offered the refund I'd have taken it and gone.

Shelldean

texranger wrote: »

If their are Mice in the Dining area then the EHO will not be aware of this as they would place a closure notice on the premises until this is cleared and sorted

They didn't in Hampshire!!!

wannabehermit

hippygran wrote: »

Sorry, but this is not correct! If the establishment are doing all they can (such as rodent proofing, using a pest control company), the EHO would not close them down. I know because I ran an establishment and (short term), we had a mouse problem, and at no point did the EHO even raise an eyebrow!

I used to work in a 'large chain family restaurant/pub', that had a huge problem with mice, running riot during dining hours, very embarrassing as a waitress to have to deal with it and pretend you know nothing about it and that it's a total surprise when the 10th customer of the day complains about mice. Rentokil were in daily, even to the point of putting sticky boards down (they were catching dozens per day with these). And yes, it was shut down for 2 days by EHO, manager sacked, massive fines and all over the local paper once it had been to court.