Jay Yoo had just opened his Philly cheesesteak restaurant in a former Herfy’s Burgers when the same health inspector who had given him the green-light returned three hours later to shut him down. The City of Tacoma, he was told in February, had an issue with his grease trap.
But Philly N Smash is not in Tacoma — it’s in Fife.
Getting to the bottom of which city was actually in charge — and which legally should be — revealed a mess of bureaucratic finger-pointing on a hot topic in the Tacoma-area small business community: Who is making sure that restaurants aren’t throwing grease down their drains, and why isn’t everyone being treated equally?…