Fabuloso Is Not So Fabulous for Restaurants

Lately, something about restaurants stinks. Ironically, it’s a cleaning product.

There are many smells that I love greeting me when I enter a restaurant: the warmth of freshly sautéed garlic, the gentle nose-sting of peppers charring, or the salty breeze of steaming clams. I hesitate to name off the smells I do not love to be greeted by, but lately, one in particular has assaulted my senses increasingly often.

Fabuloso.

The lavender-tinged scent of this multipurpose cleaner, originally developed in Venezuela, reminds me of walking into friends’ homes in Mexico, where it’s widely used. But when wielded on a commercial scale, such as the dining room of a restaurant,

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