The news and entertainment television show Inside Edition's "Rat Patrol" returned to the District this week, taking aim, perhaps predictably, at the various D.C. fast food joints recently frequented by the Obamas. The television program confirmed that two of the eateries featured in the upcoming episode were Five Guys restaurants, including the Dupont Circle location where Michelle Obama took members of her staff for lunch back in February. Indeed, the Five Guys located at 1645 Connecticut Ave NW is shuttered this morning, with a sign on the door explaining that the fast food restaurant is "closed until further notice."
D.C. Department of Health spokesperson Dena Iverson said that the closure was not a city action; Inside Edition says it found a pack of rats right outside the back door of the restaurant two nights in a row, and that's apparently prompted Five Guys to decide to shut down for clean up as a preventive measure. Another Five Guy’s location, on Wisconsin Ave. in Georgetown, was also a target of the show. Inside Edition say they observed an "unwelcome visitor inside the restaurant crawling through sacks of potatoes kept right inside the front window," two nights in a row. The Georgetown location is reportedly also closed today.
A call to Five Guys has yet to be returned, but Inside Edition forwarded us a statement they say came from the company's corporate headquarters: "The health and safety of our customers is of primary importance at Five Guys." The company told the show that the two closed stores will not reopen until they are certain they are rodent free.
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