Customer spots cook butchering deer in pizzeria

A Pennsylvania pizzeria insists venison is not on the menu - despite the impression a customer may have gotten when she saw one of the cooks butchering a deer in the shop's kitchen.

The manager of Stromboli Pizza in Allentown says a customer saw one of the restaurant cooks carving up a deer Tuesday. But John Okumus says the venison was not intended for the store.

He says he shot a doe during a hunt and left the carcass in the store's kitchen for pickup by a friend. Okumus says a customer complained to the city health department after seeing a cook mistakenly butcher the deer.

The department investigated the incident but did not issue a citation.

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Mistakingly butcher a deer?! Oh, there is no mistake in butchering the deer unless he didn't now how to do it. The mistake was in where he did the job. I don't know about up there but around here ... you butcher any game animal in a restaurant - you are shut down. Heck you even butcher a domestic animal in a restaurant - you are shut down. Restaurants are not designed to be a butcher shop and contamination of foods is all but a certainty if you do.