Second Pizza Hut Closed in Moscow: City...

Second Pizza Hut Closed in Moscow: City officials closed the Pizza Hut restaurant on Gorky Street near the Kremlin this week. A city sanitary inspector told the Tass news agency that raw, semi-cooked and cooked food was found side-by-side, in violation of city standards. The Pizza Huts also were found to lack large sinks to wash dishes as a backup to their automatic dishwashers. Restaurant officials say the inspectors are unfamiliar with modern technology such as automatic dishwashers or Western ways of preparing restaurant food. However, they could not say when the Gorky Street restaurant would reopen. On Sept. 20, the Pizza Hut on Kutuzovsky Prospekt was shut down for 2 1/2 days.