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Well-publicized cases of food poisoning have been known to ruin restaurants. A popular Kansas City restaurant in the 1980s, Costello's Greenhouse, had an elaborate salad bar as its focal point. In the 1990s, several people were sickened after eating in the restaurant, and within a matter of months the restaurant's business had plummeted. It was eventually closed, and the building was razed.
Sometimes fate isn't to blame but intensely sour grapes. Last year, more than 20 customers fell ill after dining at the Lenexa location of the family-owned Mi Ranchito Mexican Restaurant. Two months later, two ex-employees, Arnoldo Bazan and Yini De La Torre, were charged with mixing a methomyl-based pesticide into salsa and serving it to the restaurant's customers, hoping to hurt the restaurant's business and throw blame on the Mi Ranchito owners.
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