The inspector
A 0:36 clip from Hundred Stories, the tower-building game you can play in your browser.
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The health inspector walks every kitchen in order. One of them has a trash problem.
In the game, from three stars a health inspector can visit at the start of a quarter, with a day's notice. They walk every kitchen floor by floor, and a kitchen that is behind on its recycling or has cockroaches closes for a day and costs a $20,000 fine.
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A floor of three restaurant kitchens: Bistro Lune, Copper Grill and Little Pho. The health inspector walks in with a clipboard.
Narrator: The health inspector visits every kitchen in the tower, in order, with a clipboard.
The inspector stops at Bistro Lune. The kitchen gleams.
Narrator: The first kitchen is spotless.
The inspector lifts the pen and waits. The cook holds their breath.
Narrator: The pen does not move. Nobody breathes.
The cook lets the breath out. The inspector walks on to Copper Grill. Nine bags of trash are piled in front of its counter.
Narrator: The second kitchen has nine bags of trash. The inspector counts them. Out loud.
The inspector taps each bag, and a number appears on it, one to nine. The pen stops. The cook pops up from behind the counter.
Nova: It's one bag. It's fine.
Narrator: It was nine bags.
A sign swings down from the ceiling. It says CLOSED. A stamp slams onto the pile: $20,000.
Narrator: Closed for a day, and twenty thousand dollars.
The cook points off to the side.
Narrator: The cook will say it was the recycling center's fault. The cook is not entirely wrong.
A collection worker arrives late with a cart, looks at the sign and backs out the way they came.
The Hundred Stories title card, with the address playhundredstories.com.
Narrator: Play Hundred Stories dot com today.
