NYC eatery running migrant food-peddling ring hit with sickening new violations: ‘No regard’

It’s enough to make you sick.

A filthy Brooklyn restaurant at the heart of an illegal migrant street food operation was hit with a new batch of stomach-turning health violations, including over swarms of flies and “conditions conducive to rodents, insects and other pests,” records show.

Guisa’o Restaurant in Bushwick was cited for a rash of new violations after a visit from city health inspectors, as The Post revealed Sunday that migrant women crowd the grimy kitchen in a veritable food-prep sweatshop to prepare questionable chicken and rice plates for sale on city streets.

The Nov. 20 inspection found fly infestation in food prep areas, food and supplies unprotected from potential contamination, and hot food stored under the required 140 degrees.

The health probe also revealed that the restaurant “is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects and other pests,” according to city records.

Guisa’o restaurant in Brooklyn, hit with a batch of new health violations, is home base for a migrant food-peddling ring. Leonardo Munoz

Yet food prepared in the kitchen is loaded into vans and shipped across the five boroughs to be sold to unsuspecting New Yorkers for $10 a pop, The Post report found.

“It should come to no surprise that illegal immigrants would conduct illegal activity,” said US Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican whose district includes Brooklyn. “They have no regard for our nation’s laws.

“Democrats who let them in and use hard-working citizens’ tax dollars to give them free housing and benefits are to blame,” she said. “Come January 20th, the Trump administration will work diligently to clean up the Democrats’ mess and deport those committing crimes.”

The Post staked out the operation last week, watching a van pull up to the Upper East Side and unloading 15 coolers, each packed with as many as 100 prepped meals for a group of waiting Ecuadorean women.

A Post investigation revealed how migrants sell food prepared at a filthy Brooklyn restaurant throughout the city. Leonardo Munoz

The food prepared in sweatshop-like conditions at Guisa’o restaurant is trucked throughout the Big Apple and sold to locals. Leonardo Munoz

The food tins, which were packed with chicken, beef or fish over rice or fries, were then sold with a can of Coke to a group of passersby and nearby construction workers for $10.

Around 1:30 p.m. the vans returned, with the coolers eventually finding their way back to Guisa’o.

The city hasn’t been blind to the shaky conditions at the restaurant which has a C-grade health rating. In July, the restaurant was hit with 96 penalty points. Last year it was cited for $10,959 in unpaid tax liens that were later paid.

On Nov. 20, inspectors cited the eatery with another 49 points in violations.

A rep for Mayor Eric Adams said Sunday that the city was aware of the situation.

“In addition to issuing health code violations we’re looking into what more can be done,” the rep said. “But make no mistake, instances like these are exactly why the mayor has been calling for Washington [DC] to fix our broken immigration system, where people come into the country but aren’t legally allowed to work.

From the restaurant, coolers of food are packed onto vans and driven all over the five boroughs, where plates are sold for $10 each. Leonardo Munoz

“We’ve helped nearly 85,000 new arrivals apply for work authorization, asylum and temporary protected status through our nation-leading Asylum Application Help Center, but comprehensive immigration reform at the federal level is needed,” the spokesperson said.

At Guisa’o on Sunday, the restaurant was serving up food with a single cook manning the buffet.The trademark coolers did not make an appearance during the day.

It’s unclear if the operation will pick up steam again when the work week begins.

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