Reader: Here's why we need a health department...

By Patricia Calhoun Fri., Jul. 13 2012 at 6:58 AM

There's lots of action on the Denver restaurant scene -- the ongoing controversy over Frank Bonanno's fight with the health department, the upcoming Tavern Platt Park...and today, the opening of a new Bubba Chinos downtown, just steps away from City Hall, which will be serving up free chile cheese fries from 11 a.m. to noon.

And one comment ties much of the action together.

Says Jon S of the new Bubba Chinos:

I am as excited about this as I am about the new Platt Park Tavern. Which is to say not at all.
Also, everyone knocking the health department in the Bonnano story should really remember these two words as a reminder of why we need a health department: Bubba Chinos.

Have you had experiences with the city's health department? Post them below...or join the conversation already under way here.

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Bubba Chinos

1361 Court Pl, Denver, CO

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tim davids

i'm not saying i LOVE bubba chinos or anything, but the one by my house has been open forever, is always crowded, and the people are super nice.

Jon S

Hey Bdhopkins and steveville - since you are in need of explanation about my remarks, I'm going to assume you've never had the Bubba Chinos experience. I've been duped into sampling the so-called "food" at Bubba Chinos. First off, you'll have to find one of these shady locations that manages to stay open more than a couple of months. You'll soon notice that no customers actually seem to ever be there. Then when you walk in, you'll be greeted by some of the surliest employees ever known. This is somehow a trademark of Bubba Chinos. You'll likely recognize that these people don't give a flying fuck about the food, you, or your health. I'm certain that you could drop dead of a botulism infected burrito and the misanthropes that work there could care less, as long as you forked over your $5 first. If you decide to continue to actually order food for some reason, you'll receive a half-rancid meat pile slopped onto a greasy-ass tortilla. Most likely compiled by some stoned teen that's only working there to finally live out his dream of primer-coating his '96 Honda Civic and welding a wing on the back. As the atagonistic server angrily flings the foil-wrapped shit bomb across the counter at you, I'd like to really think about whether it would be such a great thing if there wasn't some governmental entity ensuring a basic level of health code compliance. Maybe it isn't so terrible that the health department stands between the consumer and these fly by night joints. And I have no idea how the Bubba Chinos business model works. None of them ever seems to have any customer traffic to speak of. And most locations don't seem to last even a year. I certainly would't be surprised if the whole thing turned out to be some pyramid scheme where franchisees keep ponying up and losing their money.

Cheese_Steak

More like -- here's why Bubba Chino's needs a professional graphic design company to create a legible logo. About as useless as those Gothic lettered tattoos that the barrio vatos sport on their backs.

Bdhopkins

none of those strike me as a HUGE CRISIS. Typical stuff. 20 years ago, people handled food without gloves all the time. Typical government bureaucratic keep them employed nonsense. I have never been to bubba chino's, and I'm sure some places are bad, but seriously, I don't see the crisis.