9 restaurants, food trucks and more fail food safety inspections in Tri-Cities area

The Benton Franklin Health District gave nine failing grades in food safety inspections of restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area June 21-27.

The health district’s food safety team gave passing marks on 63 inspections, with 37 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 inspections

Devin Oil Co./ Mobil 1, 2601 W. Court St., Pasco, Follow-up June 27 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Improper hot holding (<130°F — some items on the bottom of the open air hot holding case voluntarily discarded).

Don Taco, 110 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Routine June 26 (50 Red, 10 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; improper hot holding (<130°F); improper cold holding (prep cooler not keeping items cold enough); lack of conformance with approved procedures.

Julissa’s Meat Market (Food service), 1120 W Sylvester St., Pasco, Follow-up June 26 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; improper cooling procedures (pots of stew discarded).

Lee’s Tahitian Restaurant, 1342 Jadwin Ave., Richland, Follow-up June 23 (20 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: Lack of active managerial control; food worker cards not 100%; improper cold holding (>45°F — tempura shrimp, fried cabbage and barbecue pork in walk-in discarded).

Lep-re-kon Harvest Foods (Food service), 610 S. Columbia Ave., Connell, Routine June 23 (35 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: Not disposing of potentially unsafe food (no date mark on cut deli meats and cut lettuce, plus two pans of cooked chicken not correctly marked); improper hot holding (<130°F).

Sushi Mori, 1350 N. Louisiana St., Kennewick, Routine June 23 (70 Red, 10 Blue)

Notes: Not disposing of potentially unsafe food (no date mark on opened milk); improper cooling procedures; room temperature storage or improper use of time as a control: lack of conformance with approved procedures.

Tacos La Esperanza (Mobile), 1315 N. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Follow-up June 26 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; improper cold holding (>45°F).

Viera’s Bakery & Espresso, 430 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine June 23 (35 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Inadequate handwashing facilities (one handwashing sink also used for other cleaning tasks); improper cooling procedures (70 cups of boiled rice and milk voluntarily discarded).

Walmart (Deli), 2720 S. Quillan St., Kennewick, Routine June 26 (50 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Improper hand washing (worker cleaned the deep fryers and then went to serve food without removing gloves or washing hands); improper hot holding (<130°F — gravy in hot case not hot enough and voluntarily discarded).

Passed inspections

Amistad Elementary School, 930 W. Fourth Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Apollo Greek Restaurant, 620 Cullum Ave., Richland, Routine June 23 (5 Red, 5 Blue)

Badger Mountain Elementary School, 1515 Elementary St., Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Baked & Fried, 6481 W. Skagit Ave., Richland, Routine June 24 (30 Red, 3 Blue)

Bobablastic, 6481 Skagit Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 24 (0 Red, 3 Blue)

Bonaventure of Tri-Cities, 1800 Bellerive Drive, Richland, Routine June 26 (20 Red, 0 Blue)

Brady’s Brats & Burgers, 6481 W. Skagit Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 27 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

CoffeeNow #4, 2504 Manufacturing Lane, Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

CoffeeNow #5, 2504 Manufacturing Lane, Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

CoffeeNow #6, 2504 Manufacturing Lane, Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

CoffeeNow #7, 2504 Manufacturing Lane, Richland, Routine June 26 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

CoffeeNow #9,, 2504 Manufacturing Lane, Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Col Solare Winery, 50207 Antinori Road, Benton City, Routine June 24 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Costco Wholesale, 8505 W. Gage Blvd., Kennewick, Routine June 26 (Deli 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Meat 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Country Mercantile, 5015 Ava Way, Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Denny’s, 1301 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine June 27 (20 Red, 0 Blue)

Desert Food Mart, 10806 Kennedy Road, Benton City, Routine June 24 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Eastgate Elementary School, 910 E. 10th Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

El Punto Del Sabor, 6481 W. Skagit Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 24 (30 Red, 8 Blue)

Ethos Bakery, 2290 Keene Road, Richland, Routine June 25 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Five Guys Burgers & Fries, 2671 Queensgate Drive, Richland, Routine June 24 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Fresh Picks WA, 8378 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick, Routine June 27 (10 Red, 5 Blue)

Garden Hot Pot Restaurant, 140 Gage Blvd., Richland, Follow-up June 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Golden Wok, 5024 N. Road 68, Pasco, Follow-up June 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Great Harvest Bread Co., 8378 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick, Routine June 27 (0 Red, 3 Blue)

IHop, 6511 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick, Routine June 24 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Isaac Stevens Middle School, 1120 N. 22nd Ave., Pasco, Routine June 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Jack in the Box, 701 Wine Country Road, Prosser, Routine June 27 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Jason Lee Elementary School, 1750 McMurray Ave., Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Jersey Mike’s Subs, 2729 Queensgate Drive, Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Jimmy John’s, 534 Swift Blvd., Richland, Routine June 27 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Kennewick High School, 500 S. Dayton St., Kennewick, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Kiona Vineyards Winery, 44612 N. Sunset Road, Benton City, Routine June 24 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

The Kozy Kup, 2250 Keene Road, Richland, Routine June 24 (25 Red, 3 Blue)

Lep-re-kon Harvest Foods, 610 S. Columbia Ave., Connell, Routine June 23 (Grocery 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Meat 10 Red, 0 Blue) (Produce 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Lewis & Clark Elementary School, 415 Jadwin Ave., Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Little Caesar’s, 234 Symons St., Richland, Routine June 24 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Love Curry Indian Cuisine, 5025 N. Road 68, Pasco, Follow-up June 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Marcus Whitman Elementary School, 1704 Gray St., Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

MyFroYo, 2841 Duportail St., Richland, Routine June 24 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Nanis, 6607 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick, Routine June 25 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Papa Murphy’s Pizza, 1332 Jadwin Ave., Richland, Routine June 24 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Park Middle School, 1011 W. 10th Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Pasco High School, 1108 N. 10th Ave., Pasco, Routine June 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Pasco Specialty Kitchen (Commissary), 110 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Routine June 23 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Popeyes, 240 N. Ely St., Kennewick, Routine June 27 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Revival Organic Coffee, 1446 Spaulding Ave., Richland, Routine June 25 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Sacajawea Elementary School, 535 Fuller St., Richland, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Shade Cafe, 1295 Fowler St., Richland, Routine June 25 (10 Red, 3 Blue)

SM Produce for Less, 135 Vista Way, Kennewick, Routine June 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Socorro’s Catering Mobile (Mobile), 1206 Horne Road, Benton City, Follow-up June 24 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Starbuck’s Coffee, 6615 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick, Routine June 25 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Subway, 2801 Duportail St., Richland, Routine June 26 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Subway, 2720 S. Quillan St., Kennewick, Routine June 26 (10 Red, 3 Blue)

Summer’s Hub of Kennewick (Commissary kitchen), 6481 W. Skagit Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Tri-Cities Afghan Food, 110 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Routine June 26 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Wake Up Call, 2000 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick, Routine June 25 (0 Red, 8 Blue)

Wake Up Call, 9025 N. Steptoe St., Richland, Routine June 25 (10 Red, 3 Blue)

Washington Elementary School, 105 W. 21st Ave., Kennewick, Routine June 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Woo’s Teriyaki Grill, 1379 George Washington Way, Richland, Follow-up June 23 (0 Red, 0 Blue)