{"id":1510,"date":"2026-06-08T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:01:41","slug":"a-miami-7-eleven-had-to-toss-croquetas-and-pastelitos-dont-blame-the-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"A Miami 7-Eleven had to toss croquetas and pastelitos. Don\u2019t blame the ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>State inspectors didn\u2019t find a Big Gulp of violations at a Miami 7-Eleven last week, but found enough that they\u2019ll be back after the corporate-owned store failed inspection.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1509\">A Miami mom beat young daughter and made her eat from garbage, deputies say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>You can still get Slurpees and various forms of gas at 4501 NW Seventh St., which will remain open despite the \u201cRe-Inspection Required\u201d inspection result from Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Food sellers, manufacturers and storage facilities inspected by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services can fail inspection and remain open, unlike restaurants failing Florida Department of Business &amp; Professional Regulation inspection.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: Florida Lottery winners from a Presidente, a 7-Eleven, Allapattah and Boynton Beach<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some of what state inspectors Amber Ruckdeschel and Luis Lopez found on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnts crawling on the exterior of the bakery case holding doughnuts and cookies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctongs used for self-service roller grill items (hot dogs and taquitos) and the retail hot holding items (taquenos, pan bono, cachitos) were not washed, rinsed, and sanitized after more than four hours of use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019d need to pick up a test kit because there wasn\u2019t one to measure the sanitizer concentration at the ware washing sink.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1508\">Stores in Miami-Dade and Broward produced Sunday\u2019s lottery jackpot winners<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of washing, some of the employees didn\u2019t wash their hands before prepping chicken wings for customers or when entering the food-service area before handling clean utensils and preparing food.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The backroom handwash sink didn\u2019t have a paper towel of mechanical hand dryer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Some food employees were \u201cnot wearing hair or beard restraints while heating up chicken wings and potato tots for customers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Under the Slurpee and soda machines, the inspectors saw a \u201cheavy accumulation of liquid residue on the bottom shelves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Wet wiping cloths sitting next to a handwash sink needed to be in a bucket of sanitizer solution when not being used to wipe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The cod fish croquetas, beef pastelitos, and guava and cheese pastelitos in the hot box all measured at least 10 degrees under the required 135 degrees for safe hot storage. Each got hit with a stop sale and thrown in the garbage.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wooden knock board used to knock out coffee grounds was found stored directly in the trash can where all trash is discarded, not just used coffee.\u201d Also, someone threw out used coffee grounds by \u201ctapping into the knock board located inside the trashcan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, these standard acts you typically find at Miami and Pembroke Pines cafe cubano stations are violations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/floridamovingchronicle.com\/?p=1506\">Man found shot to death in front of a Broward home, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>This story was originally published <span>June 8, 2026 at 11:32 AM<span>.<\/span><\/span><!-- --><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A state inspector visited a Miami, Florida, 7-Eleven and found problems with croquetas, pastelitos, the Slurpee station and even the cafe cubano knock board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Miami 7-Eleven had to toss croquetas and pastelitos. 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