{"id":31833,"date":"2006-03-21T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/03\/21\/on-the-alert-for-expired-food-handling-licenses\/"},"modified":"2006-03-21T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T10:00:23","slug":"on-the-alert-for-expired-food-handling-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060321-23\/?p=31833","title":{"rendered":"On the alert for expired food-handling licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the lines at warehouse-style stores are always ridiculously long, I like to pass the time by checking out the legally required postings of food-handling and related licenses. Usually, two or three of their licenses have expired. It could be their seafood license, or their raw meat license, or their bakery license, it&#8217;s always a surprise each time I visit.\n When I point this out to someone, they usually just say, &#8220;Oh, um, you&#8217;ll have to ask the main office.&#8221; And when I ask the main office, they usually say, &#8220;Um, everything is just fine. The store was just slow to post the new licenses.&#8221;\n In other words, nobody wants to take responsibility for breaking the law. Maybe I should just report them to the health department. Or get some tips from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5028242\"> this book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Mind you, the bulletin board in our building hasn&#8217;t updated its license to employ minors since it expired in 2000. I&#8217;ve pointed this out multiple times to our personnel department, and they assure me that they&#8217;ll get right on it and post the new license, but it has yet to happen. When I sent them a reminder a few days ago, the response was disbelief, because some other &#8220;they&#8221; was supposed to have taken care of it. We&#8217;ll see if anything changes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the lines at warehouse-style stores are always ridiculously long, I like to pass the time by checking out the legally required postings of food-handling and related licenses. Usually, two or three of their licenses have expired. It could be their seafood license, or their raw meat license, or their bakery license, it&#8217;s always a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-31833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Since the lines at warehouse-style stores are always ridiculously long, I like to pass the time by checking out the legally required postings of food-handling and related licenses. Usually, two or three of their licenses have expired. It could be their seafood license, or their raw meat license, or their bakery license, it&#8217;s always a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}