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| - A group of co-workers told us about the great Grouper sandwiches at Vinnie's. We both ordered. He had the blackened and I had the fried. My sand which was not particularly sweet as true Grouper. However what really got my angry what the waitress bragged about how it was flow in daily. I should have know by the blurred tramp stamp she was a liar twice over. Turns out the business has been caught not once, but twice for selling catfish as grouper. I would gladly pay extra for true fresh grouper.
What is interesting is they were caught by the Charlotte Observer. Here is what they found.
More restaurants caught in fish-switch
Are you getting the fish you paid for and the fish you ordered, or are you eating something else entirely? We've asked the question before and found surprising results.
Now we are putting local restaurants to the test again.
Buying one thing and getting another? Is it fraud? A mistake? An oversight? Or a cheap way to increase profits margins? Whatever you call it, you can't call it grouper. Our hidden camera investigation took us to nine different local restaurants, all selling grouper.
We ordered the grouper, put the sample into a bag, on ice, and in the mail to be DNA tested at the Guy Harvey Research Institute at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauder dale.
Our mission? To find out whether, seven months after we first busted local restaurants substituting grouper with cheaper fish, restaurants have learned their lesson.
The results? Out of the nine restaurants we tested, a third were not giving you the grouper you ordered.
"I'm a bit surprised because I thought with all the publicity from the last time we found a lot of substitution, restaurants would sort of get the message that (there) are forensic methods that are able to identify whether they are substituting seafood or not," said Dr. Mahmood Shivji, Nova Southeastern University.
Here is the kicker, Vinnie's---Read on friends....
Our third failure is a repeat offender: Vinnie's Raw Bar on South Boulevard. The first time we found catfish masquerading as grouper in their signature original grouper sandwich, the manger told us, "We don't condone any misleading whatsoever."
Really? Because here's what happened when we called to order the blackened grouper sandwich this time:
Ordering over the phone, Anna said, "I'd like to order the blackened grouper sandwich that you have?"
The Vinnie's waitress asked, "Blackened Grouper Sandwich?"
"That's right," said Anna.
When we shipped the "Vinnie's Blackened Grouper" off to the lab, DNA tests showed that grouper is really catfish.
"It's quite disturbing because that same restaurant was found substituting the first time, clearly they have (not) learned their lesson and they've done it again," Shivji, our DNA scientist, said.
So everyone stop patronizing this establishment. The number of articles in the local papers are all lies.
Feel free to call these fraudsters
http://www.vinniesrawbar.com/index.htm
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