Reginellis Pizza on Chimes has a bug problem

And people still go?

you should just stay at home and eat turkey burgers!

After reading this, I wont go back until they fix the problem:

Fruit flies are common in homes, restaurants, supermarkets and wherever else food is allowed to rot and ferment.

Adults are about 1/8 inch long and usually have red eyes. The front portion of the body is tan and the rear portion is black. Fruit flies lay their eggs near the surface of fermenting foods or other moist, organic materials. Upon emerging, the tiny larvae continue to feed near the surface of the fermenting mass. This surface-feeding characteristic of the larvae is significant in that damaged or over-ripened portions of fruits and vegetables can be cut away without having to discard the remainder for fear of retaining any developing larvae. The reproductive potential of fruit flies is enormous; given the opportunity, they will lay about 500 eggs. The entire lifecycle from egg to adult can be completed in about a week.

Fruit flies are especially attracted to ripened fruits and vegetables in the kitchen. But they also will breed in drains, garbage disposals, empty bottles and cans, trash containers, mops and cleaning rags. All that is needed for development is a moist film of fermenting material. Infestations can originate from over-ripened fruits or vegetables that were previously infested and brought into the home. The adults can also fly in from outside through inadequately screened windows and doors.
Fruit flies are primarily nuisance pests. However, they also have the potential to contaminate food with bacteria and other disease-producing organisms.

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We sat at the back and the flies were all over. We then moved to the bar in the front and there were even more. I'm not saying they have rotting food, I'm saying they have a shite load of flies all over the restaurant.

I ate there last week and noticed the same thing. Fruit flies at restaurants are one of many pet-peeves. I swatted them the whole meal and our waitress didn't say a word about it (however I did catch 3 during the meal, so I'm proud of that). I won't go back there.

happens because of water or moisture somewhere, probably around there drink machine. i hate having them at home or at a restaurant, its annoying. they gotta bleach everything in there and keep it dry

I remember we had this same issue at the one on Coursey....

You can knock those fruit flies out in a few days with some Apple Cider vingegar.

Apple cider vinegar is cheap, you buy a few small bottles of it from the store, then pour out 1/3 of the vinegar in each bottle.

You take a little piece of paper and some scotch tape, create a very small funnel like the paper kind used for oil changes. It only needs to be an inch or two tall, and the hole has to be just big enough for a grain of rice to fall through (or a large fruit fly to walk through). Set the funnel in the mouth of the bottle with the tiny hole pointing down, then tape all around the bottle's mouth onto the paper to keep the funnel firmly in place. Leave the bottles in areas where the flies hang out.

The smell of apple cider vinegar drives these little guys crazy. They'll land on the funnel and sit there for an hour or two, before finally going through the little hole. Once inside, they never figure out how to get back out. Eventually they fall in the vinegar and die.

Sometimes it can take 2-3 days, but it works like a charm.

I'm going to study at Highland Coffee in the morning, I'm really considering printing out Afreaux's advice and taping it to the Reginelli's door...

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the real question is why you weren't at fluer de lis

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Rotolos > Fleur de lis

In all honesty, I like the pizza, but the servers there are so friggin bitchy I'll only get togo