Exclusive | ARROZ CON RACKET: Brooklyn restaurant at center of illegal migrant-driven food-vending scheme

A dingy Brooklyn restaurant with a laundry list of revolting health violations is at the center of an illegal vending scheme involving dozens of migrant women, who hawk meals made in its filthy kitchen on street corners across the Big Apple, The Post has learned.With growing concern over such unregulated and potentially dangerous operations popping up citywide, The Post tailed about a half-dozen pollo peddlers — illegal migrants mostly from Ecuador — who have commandeered choice spots to sell $10 plates of chicken and rice.The food originates in a Dominican joint called Guisa’o Restaurant in Bushwick, where up to 50 migrants at a time squeeze into a tiny kitchen to cook the grub, which is then delivered in coolers by van to the illegal street sellers.“People really need to know the story behind the food they’re eating when it comes to these illegal migrant vendors,” said Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens), who sits on the health committee and learned of the scheme from The Post.“These aren’t just kindly old ladies making meals in their home ovens.

This is a mass operation with dozens of illegals crammed into a filthy, violation-riddled kitchen in Bushwick, churning out food by the caseload to sell on our streets.“This is truly disgusting, and I think if more people knew that their quick ten-dollar lunch was actually from a jam-packed kitchen ..

.strewn with vermin droppings and who knows what else, they might think twice before ordering off the guy on the corner.”She continued: “And it’s cutting into local businesses, too, impacting the bottom line of shops trying to do the right thing and sell food the right way.”On Wednesday, at about 11:30 a.m., The Post observed a van pull up to five Ecuadorian women standing along First Avenue and East 78th Street on the Upper East Side.

Men unloaded 15 coolers, each filled with 50 to 100 pre-made lunches.The women — who ranged in age from their early 20s to late 40s — then sold the tins of c...