Rodent-Ridden Fast Food Restaurant Hit With Consumer Alert

PITTSBURGH, PA - The Allegheny County Health Department has issued a consumer alert for Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen on Fifth Avenue in Oakland after an inspection revealed a significant rodent infestation.

Inspectors found a live mouse on a glue trap in an office closet and another one on a glue board in the basement. Four dead mice were found in traps under dipping well station in the kitchen. A dead mouse was found on a glue board at a sliding door on the basement steps.

Inspectors also found numerous fresh droppings observed along a window sill in dry storage and by the center island in the dining room. Droppings also were observed on cardboard between the breading station and fryers.

Older droppings were found along walls in upper customer seating area, behind a box at a side door to kitchen registers, on tops of boxes of take-out items, behind a set of trash cans and along the kitchen walls.

The health department has ordered the restaurant to continue with professional pest control efforts, mouse trapping and exclusion work until there is zero rodent activity in the eatery.

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