Iwaspoisoned.com seeks to provide data to consumers, and restaurants, and prevent outbreaks
Patrick Quade’s life changed the day in 2009 he decided to get a bite to eat at a New York deli and wound up with food poisoning. The restaurant industry might have changed that day, too.
“It was brutal, absolutely brutal,” he said. “I got better, and I called the deli to try and let them know what happened. They hung up on me. ‘It wasn’t us; goodbye.’”
As a result of that incident, Quade started the food poisoning crowd-sourcing site iwaspoisoned.com.
Today that site has been credited with spotting the norovirus outbreak at a Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. location in Virginia — an incident that might have sickened more than 100 people and helped send the company’s stock to a four-year low.
For all the attention it’s received, however, Quade ...
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