A Chipotle among South Florida restaurants closed after failing inspection
A restaurant with 70 pieces of rodent regularity joins four other South Florida places that failed state inspection on this week’s Sick and Shut Down List.
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As in the rest of the state, inspections of restaurants in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties are handled by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Complaint inspections spawn from customer complaints to the agency, which can be made online.
Restaurants that fail inspection remain closed until a re-inspection is passed. The first re-inspection is usually the next day.
In alphabetical order:
Bayview Diner, 2712 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
Routine inspection, 17 total violations, 10 high priority violations
As four roach corpses lay on in a corner of the kitchen, five roaches crawled on kitchen walls, storage shelves and near that same corner. And they left roach excrement on the walls.
The blade of a can opener mounted on a prep table was a “food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime.”
A worker washing dishes “began preparing food for customers without washing hands.”
Someone else “cracked raw shell eggs then handled ready-to-eat cheese and bread without washing hands.”
Another employee did wash his hands, dried them with paper towels, then “wiped his hands on a visibly soiled apron before preparing food for customers.”
None of this occurred at the cookline handwash sink, which was “blocked by a large trash can.”
Food kept in cold storage needs to be at or under 41 degrees. Anything over that counts as “temperature abuse.” When the cut tomatoes measured 47 degrees and the cooked hash browns measured 48 degrees, each got hit with a Stop Sale.
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Chipotle, 6290 S. Dixie Hwy., South Miami
Complaint inspection, five total violations, three high priority violations
Outside a restroom, the “floor area was covered with standing water.”
Otherwise, this Chipotle failed on the flies. More than 15 flies were on single-service items — those disposable plastic forks and knives — and soda syrup dispensers in the kitchen. The lobby soda fountain had six flies over and under it. Two flies were at the front counter.
Using the men’s restroom had to be a true mission with eight flies in that confined space.
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The Hive Waterfront Restaurant, 2412 Floral Rd., Unincorporated Palm Beach County
Complaint inspection, 10 total violations, eight high priority violations
The inspector counted 50 rodent droppings on a dry storage closet floor. The warewashing area floor got decorated with 20 droppings.
Two dead roaches, one near a prep area.
The walk-in cooler was “heavily soiled with food debris.”
Commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged food comes with instructions to keep it frozen until it’s used. It’s not to be thawed in that packaging because of bacteria risk. That’s why tuna packaged that way in the walk-in cooler got hit with a Stop Sale.
Many pounds of food stored overnight in the flip-top cooler and keg cooler got sent to the trash by a Stop Sale for temperature abuse. Goodbye to clam chowder, meatloaf, blue cheese dressing and ranch dressing made on site, pico mix, sliced ham, mozzarella cheese, whole milk, heavy cream, coleslaw and blue cheese. Rice that couldn’t cool from 135 degrees to 70 degrees within two hours also got hit with a Stop Sale.
Los Agaves, 1179 Royal Palm Beach Blvd., Royal Palm Beach
Complaint inspection, 14 total violations, five high priority violations
Three rodent droppings were on boxes.
Two dead roaches were found, one under a hot water heater, the other under a shelf with tortilla chips.
Someone working on the cookline did some face wiping “and without washing hands, the employee began to prepare cut green onions.”
All the cutting boards were “grooved and no longer cleanable.”
“Throughout the kitchen” tiles missing grout allowed the collection of standing water and food debris.
The chlorine sanitizing solution bucket for wiping cloths was just water, zero parts per million chlorine sanitizer.
Meals by Chef B., 522 W. Lantana Rd., Lantana
Routine inspection, eight total violations, three high priority violations
“Hole in wall behind tall white refrigerator,” but that didn’t lead to rodents getting through. But there were roach corpses. Seven died near coolers. Five met their end under storage racks. One expired “on a shelf where tea packets are stored.”
Two living roaches made it to a lower prep table shelf “where skewers are stored.” One was “crawling on a shelf over a prep table by the walk-in freezer.” Four others were making their way across various sections of the floor.
The sanitizer in the third section of the three-compartment sink measured only 50 parts per million, well below the preferred 400 parts per million.
A can opener blade needed to be washed as it was “soiled with food debris.” The cutting board on a flip-top cooler was beyond washing — too many cut marks, “no longer cleanable.”
Corn cooked on Sept. 11 that should have been gone after Sept. 17, but was still present on Sept. 24. Garlic lime vinaigrette made in April should have been gone in the spring, but was still there three days into autumn. Stop Sales on both.
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