Customer spots cook butchering deer in pizzeria
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
By The Associated Press
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu _ despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the shop's kitchen.
The manager of Stromboli Pizza in Allentown says a customer saw one of the restaurant cooks carving up a deer Tuesday. But John Okumus says the venison was not intended for the store.
He says he shot a doe during a hunt and left the carcass in the store's kitchen for pickup by a friend. Okumus says a customer complained to the city health department after seeing a cook mistakenly butcher the deer.
The department investigated the incident but did not issue a citation.
