Roach-A-Cino? Restaurant Inspection Report

Many people get turned off by inspection reports. We usually don’t let one rough inspection bother us but this week’s report has a couple major turn-offs.

Leading off in the Yuck category is Bonaccino Café, a little place near one of the east entrances of Town Center Mall (by the parking structure and Willams-Sonoma). They were temporarily closed and the inspection report indicates a total of 24 violations including 10 marked high priority. Here are some of the lowlights:

• Employee failed to wash hands beforechanging gloves and/or putting on gloves to work with food. Cook washed hands and changed gloves upon request. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
• In-use utensil stored in unclean water at or above 135 degrees Fahrenheit, crepe wand 78°. Ice cream scoops 76°. **Warning**
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale. Crepe batter 68°. **Warning**
• Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found, 1 live on counter, expo station, 1 live smoothie station, 5 live under counter crepe station. 1 live in cupboard across from crepe station. **Warning**
• Roach activity present as evidenced by roach egg sacs found, 3 inside cabin at smoothie station. 5 under crepe station. **Warning**
• Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse. **Warning**

If that’s not bad enough there was still one major problem the next day:

Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found, 1 live on counter, expo station, 1 live smoothie station, 5 live under counter crepe station. 1 live in cupboard across from crepe station. **Warning** At time of the callback on 09/17/15, 2 live by crepe station, 1 live by smoothie station, 1 live by ice machine. To deal with a roach problem, or infestation of any kind, bringing in the professionals like Economy Exterminators is a surefire way to deal with pests swiftly and cost-effectively.

Romano’s Macaroni Grill recorded another bad inspection. They had a total of 21 violations including 6 marked high priority:

• Live, small flying insects in kitchen near dry storage and prep table with slicer.
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Veal at 50° F at cookline , sauté 1 cooler.placed in walkin cooler. Butter 47° F to 48° within 1 hour at pizza prep cooler. Sent to cool down at walkin cooler. **Corrective Action Taken**
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared from/mixed with ingredient(s) at ambient temperature not cooled to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 4 hours. Lobster 52° F, prepped 4 hours ago. Discarded. Chicken 50° F to 50° F within 1 hour at sauté station 1 cooler. At current rate of cooling food will not reach 41° F within the four hour limit. **Corrected On-Site**
• Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food reheated for hot holding not reaching 165 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 seconds within 2 hours. Lasagna at 110° F reheating for a total of 1.5 hr. At current rate of reheating food will not reach 165° F within the 2 hour limit at the steam stable. Reheated for to 193° F at oven. **Corrected On-Site**
• Quaternary ammonium sanitizer not at proper minimum strength for manual warewashing. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. 100 ppm quat at 3 compartment sink. Corrected to 200 ppm quat. **Corrected On-Site**
• Raw animal food stored in top portion of make table over ready-to-eat food in bottom portion of make table _ no complete physical barrier between top and bottom. Raw chicken over sauce on top of make table where drippings from raw food can contaminate ready to eat foods. Moved raw chicken to bottom and sauce to top adjacent to cookline. **Corrected On-Site**

Romano’s was temporarily closed twice this summer for rodents, once not long ago, and earlier with a total of 48 violations. On the bright side they weren’t shut down this time.
Casa Tequila, on Glades just west of the Turnpike, had the highest number with 27 violations. Only 3 were high priority but one of them was for rodent droppings:

Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. 8 dry rodent droppings in storage closet in shared mall hallway in common area. – outside (opened) kitchen rear door in long access hallway to trash area is evidence of infestation. Dried rodent feces.

In Delray just southwest of Military and Atlantic, the relatively new Vikings Steak Seafood and Sushi Buffet had 22 violations including 6 high priority.
The Good News
A few restaurants had excellent inspections. Two places on Military Trail near Atlantic did well. Philly Grill had a perfect inspection with zero violations.

The Subway on Military Trail nearby also had a perfect inspection, as did the Subway on Federal Highway in East Boca. And the café at Osprey Point Golf Course also rang up a perfect inspection.
In Town Center two places were near-perfect: Blue Martini and Cups Frozen Yogurt each had just one minor violation. The Pollo Tropical in Delray did well with just four minor violations.
Other notables:
TGI Friday’s in Mission Bay had 5 violations with 2 marked high priority.
Lemongrass just south of Mizner Park had 7 violations with 1 marked high priority.
Brickyard on Palmetto Park had 9 violations with 2 marked high priority.
Shinju Buffet had a high number with 17 violations, but only one was marked high priority.
Stir Crazy in Town Center had 14 violations with 3 marked high priority.
Our full spreadsheet for this week is below:
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