Dirty Dining: Sala da Pranzo, Not a TMJ4 Sponsor

Here we go again -- a TMJ4 "Dirty Dining" update.

The lucky restaurant this week was Sala da Pranzo near Downer Ave. by UWM.

There were the usual problems for which the restaurants are so often cited: mouse and rat droppings, employees handling food customers are about to eat with bare hands, no expiration dates on some foods, debris on the slicer, slimy soda guns, and a dirty, greasy floor.

Courtny Gerrish showed up with the camera crew during the busy lunch hour. Co-owner Teresa Balistreri didn't want to talk then, telling Gerrish to return later. They ended up talking on the phone.

If advertising dollars were at stake for TMJ4 or other media connected with Journal Broadcast Group, you can be sure that Sala da Pranzo would not have been featured.

When will these places learn that to avoid the bad publicity they have to advertise with TMJ4?

That's how the Brookfield Perkins did it.

Money decides the "news."