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Back in the summer of 1985, 17 teens and 5 adults on a Work Camp from John Knox Presbyterian Church in North Olmsted OH spent a week at Warren Wilson College. On the Friday night, we found our way to Bill Stanley's Barbecue and Bluegrass and had an absolutely wonderful time! For the price of a few pitchers of root beer, we were treated to a delightful evening of music, dancing and a whole lot of laughter! Thank you for a wonderful memory! Peg Anderson
There’s a really good and detailed story about it here: http://www.allbusiness.com/north-america/united-states-north-carolina/124338-1.html
The source of the Hepatitis A was never found. The above story says it was believed to have come from a patron who visited the buffet. No employees were found to be sick prior to the outbreak. The few employees who did get sick got sick at the same time as he customers. The outbreak didn’t drive Bill out of business. He eventually sold the restaurant to someone else who just called it "Stanley’s." However, it was never the same after the outbreak.
All the publicity from the local news (especially WLOS) combined with the fact that so many of the sick people were tourists from out of town was too much to recover from.
TRS, from a 2000 Citizen-Times story:
"Hepatitis A definitely ruined business at Bill Stanley’s Barbecue & Bluegrass restaurant. In 1988, 77 diners became sick with hepatitis A spread by a food-service worker.
"The restaurant closed about a year later. Stanley has said previously that the incident "kind of took the life out of us" – costing the business $487,000 in the process."
Was closed after 350 people in Asheville had to go to the Health Department or hospital after poor sanitation, ie chef with "cut finger", at the restaurant.
What is the deal here? ACT writers do not have access to the archives?
TRS