By Jimmy Baracia
Last week, at least a dozen Carnegie Mellon students went to University Health Services with symptoms consistent with food poisoning. When the university recognized that all these students had eaten at Stack’d around the same time, it reported the third-party vendor to the Allegheny County Health Department.
In a statement to The Tartan, media relations director Peter Kerwin wrote that Stack’d “implemented immediate corrective action.” On Friday, Feb. 16, the health department reinspected the vendor and “confirmed proper safety measures.”
Stack’d opened its campus location in October and, as a third-party vendor, is managed by Metro Restaurant Group. The Pittsburgh restaurant group also owns CHiKN, Viva Los Tacos, and Melt’d.
Kerwin asked that students who believe they are suffering from foodborne illness contact University Health Services or their own healthcare provider.
The health department inspects campus food vendors biannually. Carnegie Mellon also uses EcoSure to conduct food safety inspections throughout the year. Kerwin wrote that with the Stack’d health violation, the university plans to increase the number of EcoSure inspections.
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