Inside Edition's Rat Patrol Shines The Light On Rodents Running Wild In Boston Restaurants.

Boston- The television show, Inside Edition, investigative report "Rat Patrol" has turned its sights on Boston and has discovered Bean town is loaded with rats. INSIDE EDITION found the disease-carrying vermin dining in dumpsters, scampering down sidewalks and feasting inside restaurants.

During its pre-dawn patrol, INSIDE EDITION found rodents running wild in restaurants from the Back Bay to the North End. Boston's Inspection Services Department says it is simply unacceptable for rats to be scampering around various Boston restaurants and that they educate all restaurant managers in prevention of vermin.

Kitchens should be kept clean It should be top priority when you're done with food prep, done with the night floors cleaned, trash should be taken out and contained properly, says John Meaney, Boston's Principal Health Inspector.

Despite all of the efforts of the health department, INSIDE EDITION found rodents in a number of restaurants simply by standing on the sidewalk and shining a flashlight through the window. The Rat Patrol even found vermin in some of the nations most popular chains including coffee Mecca Starbucks in the South End and upscale seafood restaurant McCormick & Schmick's in historic Quincy Market.

I think the average person would be quite surprised how frequently restaurants have problems with rodents and other pests, says Bruce Colvin, international expert on vermin.

At Ruth's Chris Steak House, the rat patrol wasn't able to see inside the restaurant from the sidewalk but discovered that poorly maintained dumpsters just steps from the kitchen door behind the restaurant were fueling a serious rat problem outside.

INSIDE EDITION also showed the video of the dumpsters overflowing with food and the vermin feasting and running amuck to John Meaney.

Unacceptable, Its something that we will talk to them about. Well be down there today, says Meaney, who arrived at Ruth's Chris a half hour later with a team of inspectors and issued a violation for the overflowing dumpsters.

In total INSIDE EDITION witnessed rodents in eight Boston eateries including:

McCormick & Schmick's, North Market Building, (Quincy Market)
Express, 227 Hanover Street (North End)
Starbucks, 627 Tremont Street (South End)
China Pearl, 9 Tyler Street (Chinatown)
Cappys II, 309 Huntington Avenue
Trident Booksellers & Café, 335 Newbury Street (Back Bay)
Thai Basil, 132 Newbury Street (Back Bay)
Assaggio, 29 Prince Street (North End)