3 failed food safety inspections of restaurants, coffee shop in Tri-Cities area

The Benton Franklin Health District gave three failing grades in food safety inspections of restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area April 12-18.

The health district’s food safety team gave passing grades on 24 inspections, with 16 of those earning perfect scores.

In the district’s routine inspections, businesses or organizations that receive at least 35 points for the more serious red violations are required to have additional inspections and must meet a tougher standard on those.

To pass followup inspections, they must have fewer than 25 red points and fewer than 10 repeat red points for previous issues.

Scores of 85 or more red points result in establishments remaining on probation until they pass two follow-up inspections, the first one within 72 hours.

Red violations are those most likely to cause food-borne illnesses, such as not keeping hot food hot enough or cold food cold enough, inadequate handwashing or bare-hand contact with foods.

Blue violations are low risk factors related to the cleanliness and physical condition of an establishment.

No notice is given before the inspections.

Businesses may have separate inspections of business lines with different health safety risks, such as grocery sales and a deli that prepares food.

Inspection results are posted online so residents can look up the status and the details of any violations of individual restaurants or check other businesses.

Go to bit.ly/BFHDinspections. Click on the business name and then on the date of the inspection on the right half of the next page. Look for the “Violations” tab.

For questions or complaints about food safety in Benton or Franklin counties, email contactusfoodsafety@BFHD.WA.GOV.

To participate in the health district’s food safety topics survey, go to bit.ly/BFHDfoodsafetysurvey.

Failed inspection

The Coffee Crush, 6615 Chapel Hill Blvd., Pasco, Routine April 16 (50 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; improper hand washing (food worker washed hands for only 5 seconds); not properly disposing of potentially unsafe food (sliced ham and cream cheese had no date marked and were discarded); improper cold holding (>45°F — ham and croissant sandwiches in prep line not cold enough).

Sterling’s, 890 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine April 15 (35 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Not properly disposing of potentially unsafe food (some sliced roast beef and ham had no date marked); improper cooling procedures.

Teriyaki Grill, 5325 Road 68, Pasco, Routine April 16 (65 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; improper cooling procedures (some cooked rice voluntarily discarded); room temperature storage or improper use of time as a control (cut cabbage voluntarily discarded); lack of conformance with approved procedures.

Passed inspections

Antojos 509, 10 E. Bruneau Blvd., Kennewick, Follow-up April 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

The Bradley, 404 Bradley Blvd., Richland, Routine April 15 (10 Red, 5 Blue)

Deez Donuts (Mobile), 6509 W. Deschutes Ave., Kennewick, Routine April 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Ding Tea, 5802 N. Road 68, Pasco, Routine April 18 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

El Flaco Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs, 6481 W. Skagit Ave., Kennewick, Follow-up April 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Headstart/Marcus Whitman, 1704 Gray St., Richland, Routine April 15 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Jersey Mike’s Subs, 5326 Road 68, Pasco, Routine April 18 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

KBTC Family Fun Zone, 8425 Chapel Hill Blvd., Pasco, Follow-up April 16 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Kennewick Child Development Center, 16 N. Huntington St., Kennewick, Routine April 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Kingspoint Christian School, 7900 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine April 15 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Kona Ice of Pasco (Mobile), 110 S. Fourth St., Pasco, Routine April 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Lamb Weston (Mobile), 2013 Saint St., Richland, Routine April 12 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Liberty Christian School, 2200 Williams Blvd., Richland, Routine April 15 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

MOD Super Fast Pizza, 5326 Road 68, Pasco, Routine April 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Orchard Elementary School, 1600 Gala Way, Richland, Routine April 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Paterson Elementary School, 51409 W. Prior Ave., Paterson, Routine April 17 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Paterson Store/Restaurant, 48905 Paterson Ave., Paterson, Routine April 17 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Pinches Botanas, 490 Wellsian Way, Richland, Routine April 15 (25 Red, 10 Blue)

Popeyes, 5814 N. Road 68, Pasco, Routine April 16 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Prosser Falls Education Center, 1203 Prosser Ave., Prosser, Routine April 17 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Sharetea, 128 S. Ely St., Kennewick, Follow-up April 16 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Vega’s Mexican Grill & Market, 190504 Highway 221, Paterson, Routine April 17 (5 Red, 5 Blue)

White Bluffs Elementary School, 1250 Kensington Way, Richland, Routine April 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Whitstran Elementary School, 102101 W. Foisy Road, Prosser, Routine April 17 (15 Red, 0 Blue)