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Filthy kitchens and roaches were some of the problems state inspectors found this week in South Florida restaurants.
Familiar proper nouns — Fuddruckers, Burger King, Coconut Grove, Sushi Sake — pack this week’s list of South Florida restaurants closed by inspection.
Restaurants failing inspection in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties make up the weekly Sick and Shut Down List, but no places in Broward and Monroe counties got struck down by inspection lightning.
A reminder that these inspections are either routine checks by the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation or prompted by customer complaints to the agency. Restaurants closed by inspection can reopen after passing re-inspection. The first re-inspection is usually the following day.
In alphabetical order:
Burger King, 7080 Seminole Pratt Whitney Rd., Unincorporated Palm Beach County
Routine inspection, four total violations, four High Priority violations
The inspector saw “waste water seeping from floor drains at the fryer and prep areas in the kitchen, covering the entire fryer area and sections of the prep area. The area cannot be segregated as this is their primary cooking area.”
And “employees were walking through the area, therefore, wastewater marks are on other sections” of the kitchen floor.”
The walk-in cooler apparently staged a standing walk-out, as it failed to keep food at or below 41 degrees. A shower of Stop Sales for temperature abuse came down on sliced tomatoes, cut lettuce, shredded cheese, sliced Swiss cheese, liquid eggs, raw bacon and half-and-half milk.
Fuddruckers Restaurant, 14875 S. Dixie Hwy., Palmetto Bay
Routine inspection, 10 total violations, three High Priority violations
The warewashing machine had an “accumulation of debris.”
The front counter salad reach-in cooler had an accumulation of live roaches — a dozen — crawling inside the gaskets. Under the cooler, standing water covered the floor.
The bread rack next to the grill was “soiled with old food debris.” The reach-in freezer gaskets were “soiled.” A “heavy grease buildup” was “under the flat top grill, between the fryers and on a side of the cookline reach-in freezer.”
Fuzzbee’s, 3444 Main Highway 2, Miami
Routine inspection, eight total violations, two High Priority violations
Six live roaches scaled walls at this Coconut Grove restaurant’s kitchen mop sink area.
“In-use utensil not stored on a clean portion of food preparation or cooking equipment.” How so? The “front counter tongs were stored on the counter top.”
In another container, “tong handles were stored in contact with watermelons.”
Sushi Sake Homestead, 5 S. Flagler Ave., Homestead
Routine inspection, 23 total violations, nine High Priority violations
What’s up with the ceiling in this restaurant?
The dishwasher ceiling tiles were “soiled with a black substance.” The ceiling near the cookline was “soiled with old food debris.”
A roach crawled on a cheese cloth. Four roaches sashayed across the floor under the three-compartment sink.
The wiping cloth sanitizer bucket was almost as weak as water, only 10 parts per million, and the sushi chef sanitizer bucket was only at 50 ppm. They needed to be at 100 ppm.
The sushi chef walked into the sushi area and began making sushi rolls without washing hands Then again, there wasn’t a handwashing sink at the sushi prep area.
More than two hours after being cooked, eggs needed to be at or under 41 degrees, but measured 117 degrees.
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David J. Neal
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