In the nine days following the exposure of the KFC-Taco Bell rat scandal on Feb. 23, a shocking 235 New York restaurants have failed health inspections. Just last week, the star-studded Coffee Shop in Union Square was briefly shut down when an inspector spent hours finding several violations (inadequately refrigerated meat was the ickiest). But what about all the sketchy restaurants that escaped the media blitz prior to the Greenwich Village rodent porn garnering 80,028 views on YouTube (and that’s just one edition as of March 19)? Many eagerly welcomed back the Shake Shack last week after a long, semi-cold winter. Perhaps burger-hungry folk have repressed the memory, but last summer the Shack scored a whopping 140 points on its health inspection. Among the cited infractions: Facility not vermin proof, harborage or conditions conducive to vermin exist (and you know that’s dangerous in Madison Square Park), and food worker does not wash hands thoroughly after visiting the toilet, coughing, sneezing, smoking, preparing raw foods or otherwise contaminating hands.

Also last summer, three Manhattan Starbucks were targeted when their employees filed a complaint with OSHA after management failed to deal with rat and insect problems. The IWW Starbucks Workers Union released the “Creepy Crawly Starbucks 44,” a list of the 44 New York City Starbucks that were issued a Notice of Violation due to the finding of rodents, cockroaches or flying insects. Yet health inspectors didn’t go on a restaurant witch hunt then, and if they did, they did so rather surreptitiously.