MIAMI HERALD – Rodents and national chains dominate the 17 restaurants that failed inspection this week in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties.
Unless noted, the places on the Sick and Shut Down list reopened after passing re-inspection the next day.
Checkers, 400 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
Complaint inspection, six total violations, two High Priority violations. Imagine working in a cramped Checkers, the Fotomat booth of fast food, with enough rodents running around to leave 80 poop pieces.
Apparently, the rodents take the high ground when marking territory — 10 droppings on top of a French fry dispensing machine near the drive-thru window, 20 on shelves over the customer order window “with packages of single service straws” and about 50 on shelves over the handwash sink area and dry storage shelves with ready-to-eat sauces.
Three roaches died under the packages of single service straws.
Five flies lived on the shelves with the 50 poop pieces.
McDonald’s, 100 State Road 7, Unincorporated Palm Beach County
Complaint inspection, three total violations, three High Priority violations.
The old McDonald’s slogan “You deserve a break today” works here if you want to say the inspector put this Mickey D’s crew and management on break for the rest of the day after this inspection.
After an employee used a hand to do a face wipe, “without washing hands, the employee handled clean and sanitized dishes.”
What took this McDonald’s out of the Big Mac and Quarter Pounder business were the 52 pieces of rodent regularity — 20 under a rolling storage rack with boxes of dishes, 25 on the floor under the employee lockers, five along a wall by the door in the employee break room, one on the floor in front of a soda dispenser and one on the floor of dry storage.
