Entry Blog 16

In America there’s a big company called The Food and Drug Administration (F.D.A) that controls the quality, the freshness and the safeness of the food from all over America. There job is to make sure that all the food companies are respecting the rules, and are offering to their costumers a fresh and a not expired product. The F.D.A. has agents whose mission is to check all the food that is being imported in our country and as well before is exported to our country.  Although this may be true, but thinking realistically this is not enough to protect a nation, as well as some restaurants and food companies from not consuming or serving the none fresh food. In that case, only a few of the companies remain to serve food that is safe to have it.

Those days store owners or restaurant owners are too concern about their business to do well, then about their customers. The only think that some of them want is to make money, and don’t care about anything else. Only a few of the owners are really thinking about the safety of the food that they are going to sell.  Most of the times, we can find fresh food in those supermarket, restaurants and small stores that are in business for a long time, and they are well known in the neighborhood.

I had a terrible experience with one of my favorite restaurants. I used to enjoy going to “La Favela” because I loved their food, plus I had a good friend who worked there, but one day all desire of going their finished. Whenever I was going to “La Favela I was always having their special of the day, so once I went for 3 days in raw and in those days they had the same special. All that was because they didn’t sell much of it before, so they kept putting it on special. That made me wonder how that could happen, and when I asked my friend she said that their business was not going well anymore so they had to sell the same food for a few days in raw.  I felt unsafe with their food, because I didn’t know how fresh it was and it will be so then I stopped going there.

If people really want to have a good quality food they should go to an expensive restaurant, or as I have mentioned earlier, to a well known restaurant in the neighborhood. That will give them a good service, a nice environment and serve them a safe food.

The restaurant I work at is located in Upper East Side, and is in business for twenty years. It is well known for the best quality of its deserts, panini’s and food in general. The Upper East Side residents are always safe about the freshness, and the tourists plus the new costumers always tend to come back again. The specials of the day are actually changing every day, the products are always fresh and high quality. The only problem is that it’s expensive and not a lot of people can afford going there.

Summing up, I think we should always ask ourselves, what kind of produces we are consuming, are they healthy enough for our families and where we are buying them?. In that case, we will be more aware about the supermarkets where we are usually buying food, and our favorite restaurants . That way we will live a healthy life and have a strong immune system.