Dinosaur Bar-B-Que to close for the weekend

Updated: 12/1/2006 6:50 AM

By: Staff

 

The Onondaga County Health Department has shut down a popular eatery in Syracuse after numerous incidents of sickness after people ate the restaurant?s food. The Dinosaur Bar-B-Que on Clinton Street will be closed until Monday as a precaution after the health department received reports that as many as 270 people got sick after eating there last weekend.

 

Preliminary evidence suggests that a viral illness, not tainted food, was the cause. The health department believes the virus may have spread between the employees and customers last Friday and Saturday.

 

They hope the closure will contain the illness.

 

 

?The most important thing is that we?re very hopeful that working with Dinosaur Bar-B-Que with this closure that we?ll be able to interrupt the transmission, and that?s why we?re recommending this,? Onondaga County Health Commissioner Dr. Cynthia Morrow said.

 

Management at the restaurant is cooperating with the health department, and they will reopen Monday. Results from the health department's investigation should be available early next week.

 

I used to eat there all the time...this place is an institution down there.

wow damn...get well everyone...i mean food poisoning would have been bad...but this could potentially be really bad...again...good luck everyone...best wishes and speedy recovery