"The company initially deemed this a 'temporary escalation' of what was previously understood to be a more ordinary rat problem". Classing this as an "isolated event" says this company has no respect for our own powers of observation. Ok there could have only been one or two rats in the closed restaurant, but they were invited in by the restaurant management. How so you ask, well all you have to do is look at the floor, food and debris every where. And that is what we could see, what was the condition of the remainder of this restaurant? This never should have happened, but from what I hear anything can happen in New York.

Okay, when you put it that way, it's time to leave the city.

I wonder were there large amounts of the rats found wondering around in the basement or any other part of the building. I find it hard to believe that there were no rat dropping prior to this "NASTY" outbreak.

Also when was the last time The KFC/Taco Bell had been inspected by the NYC Heath Department , and further more "WHAT WAS THEIR SCORE?"

I believe this place was set up. Just my feeling. I wonder who might have done this on purpose to these people. Seems odd to me.

Holy cow, (or rat). When I saw the original story I wasn't thinking infestation. Those are a lot of rats. There was a Denny's where I live that had an occasional rat we spotted, and it was torn down.

Someone needs to call the Pied Piper.

What a horrific story...and more woes for YUM Brand. Well, you shouldn't be eating at fast food joints anyway...

20 yrs in northern isolated country, 30 yrs in the big city, makes no real difference, rats are everywhere. I'm curious though, since there are that many inside of one restaurant, why not use it to invite more in, trap them, and dispose of them properly. Put blinders on those windows and do a Pied Piper luring into the restaurant. Do the community a service by doing so. The neighbors might not like it, but if it gets rid of their rats, a temp inconvenience might be acceptable. Better than chasing them off to the neighbors! Poisoning only makes matters worse. They crawel off to die inside of walls.

there have been talks many times in the past of KFC cooking rats and serving as chicken in ths south...there is absolutely NO excuse for rat infestation seems someone sit and did not take the necessary steps to insure this didnt happen..like poison and cleanliness. rats want come where food is not available....and water.
this is DISDUSTING>

As an exterminator in Phila for about 23 yrs, I have seen it all. When I had my own business, I specialized in restaurants from the corner bar to the most upscale places in town.
The reason for such problems is a serious lack of sanitation and structural defects.
The defects allow rodents (and other pests) in, the poor sanitation allows them food to survive. My favorite saying is "If they can feed, they can breed" as this food place in NY has proven true.
These things can be fixed with some elbow grease and common sense! (seems the owner/manager is lacking both).

Don't you know that RATS bring the PEST?
Specially in a city like New York

Read the Book from Emile Zola " The PEST its happen early 20 century

Don't you know that RATS bring the PEST?
Specially in a city like New York

Read the Book from Emile Zola " The PEST its happen early 20 century

this is gross i am an exterminator in NYC and they should have gotten rid of the problem a lot sooner. The new what was going on.

-if you have a problem call (800)311-6655 they will get the job done rite

Its been a so called Urban legend for years that KFC uses rats instead of chicken, I guess its true after all Yum finger licken good

I stopped eating KFC when I learned that they were reporducing a chicken like protein in labortories. It went to the Supremem Court because they were calling it chicken and it was not. That is when the name had to be changed to KFC, unless a particular branch was actually using real chicken.

The protein was preseasoned (very salted) and could not be reheated once cooked. It gave me terrible headaces. It saved the company lots of money not to have to buy real chickens, but to instead make it in a laboratory. After they would put it on bone looking bones, but, if you looked carefully, all of the bones looked the same. This protein was not made to be reheated once you purchased it at a KFC, so you would always find that the KFC protein would be very tough, unchewable the next day.

Regarding NYC rats, I was standing on a platform and a huge rat, at 145th street, began to run like a grey hound, toward the beginning of the platform to go down onto the track area. People were falling and hurting themselves, scurrying so quickly to get away. I did not see it right away, I just saw the people running. I froze when I realized that the thing that they were running from was running/hopping towards my direction. It was so big, I actually thought it was a small kangaroo. I could not wait to hear the news that night to see what it was. Nothing. Not one word. A few weeks later I heard of a spliced animal rat+ something else had gotten out of a labortory in NYC and was seen in the subway system. Others talked about rats living to be older than the believed one year and that that could have been one of the oldest living rats. I did not believe this.

The only time I eat out nowadays, is when I BBQ vegetables on the grill in my back yard.....in Arizona......New Yorks rats are a bit larger than my mind can take.

nyc restaurants this is common, once i saw a rat on the buffet tables n complained to the manager n he hit back with we are new and earlier there were big rats now these are tiny mice, so thats progress lol

Are these imported or domestic rats?
Anyway,
I love Rats.
They are the smartest non-human companions on the planet. Anyone who has taken the time to get to know them personally will agree.
They are loving, adorable, fastidiously clean, and loyal, with strong family ties!
The Plague was caused by Human Feces and bad sanitary systems, not by rats.
It's the "food" business staff and management that can behave in a disgusting manner.
But like any opportunistic species, they will go where the food is. No food, no Rats.
Period.
But I guess the fact that they will even consider dining at KFC means that they are not that smart.
The moral of the story is:
If you can't clean up after yourself, someone else will.

so thats how kfc make there chicken/and the reason why tacobell stop sellin chilli cheese burratos

thats why i miss bojangles chicken they were clean

Those rats didn't appear overnight-- surprise. They knew and saw evidence of it. I once had an apartment next to an "eat N Park" (PA chain). There were rats in the dumpster. They would come out and bare their teeth at you. Coming home to that in the dark was not just disgusting, but frightening.

CONSTANT AND REGULAR MAINTAINANCE AND THOROUGH CLEANING WILL USUALLY KEEP ANY PLACE FREE OF PESTS OF ALL KINDS. PUTTING FOOD AWAY, KEEPING IT IN A SEALED CONTAINER, REFUSE IN GARBAGE BAGS IN TRASH DUMPSTERS ARE MORE OF WHAT TO DO REGULARLY. DON'T WAIT FOR SOMEONE TO COMPLAIN. LOSING CUSTOMERS IS DEFINIELY MORE COSTLY THAN DOING IT RIGHT. 5% WILL SUE AS WELL.