4 failed food inspections of Tri-Cities area restaurants, bars, food trucks

The Benton Franklin Health District gave four failing grades in safety inspections of restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area Aug. 2-8.

The health district’s food safety team gave passing marks on 41 inspections, with 14 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

Cinco De Mayo Family Restaurant, 3600 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 7 (45 Red, 23 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; food not in good condition (discolored raw beef serving past expiration date and discarded); not properly disposing of potentially unsafe food (4 bins of cooked and cooled foods were a week past discard date and several different foods, including slaw, soup, sauce and chile relleno, had no date marked); improper raw meat handling procedures (knives still dirty from night before and racks needed to be sanitized); raw meat improperly stored.

Don Taco, 110 S. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Follow-up Aug. 7 (50 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: Improper cooling procedures (beans discarded); improper reheating procedures for hot holding; lack of conformance with approved procedures.

Magill’s Restaurant, 3214 Road 68, Pasco, Follow-up Aug. 5 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Not properly disposing of potentially unsafe food (cheese sauce at high risk for Listeria and cooked 10 days ago was voluntarily discarded).

Vargas Taqueria, 6908 W. Argent Road, Pasco, Routine Aug. 5 (55 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Lack of active managerial control; raw meat improperly stored; improper cooling procedures; improper cold holding (>45°F); lack of conformance with approved procedures.

Passed inspections

Arby’s, 1051 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Aug. 6 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Boys & Girls Club, 910 W. Seventh Place Kennewick, Routine Aug. 5 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Boys & Girls Club, 801 N. 18th Ave., Pasco, Routine Aug. 5 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Cafe Del Alma, Edison St., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 8 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Cakes Sweets and More, 1999 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine Aug. 7 (20 Red, 5 Blue)

The Camelias Tacos, 1415 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

Chills Froyo, 2909 S. Quillan St., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 7 (0 Red, 8 Blue)

Desert Heat, 707 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine Aug. 5 (10 Red, 10 Blue)

Doggie Style Gourmet (Mobile), 1415 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

El Padrino Bakery, 615 W. Columbia Drive, Kennewick, Routine Aug. 8 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Farm Grounds Coffee, 190704 Highway 221, Paterson, Routine Aug. 7 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Greek Islands Cuisine, 600 Gage Blvd., Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Hanford High School, 450 Hanford St., Richland, Routine Aug. 6 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Horse Heaven Supply, 118307 S. Highway 221, Prosser, Routine Aug. 7 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Imperial Bakery, 1515 Wright Ave., Richland, Follow-up Aug. 6 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Inca Mexican Restaurant, 201 N. Edison St., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 7 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Kagen Coffee & Crepes, 270 Williams Blvd., Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

Koala Cafe, 1377 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Aug. 8 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

La Villa, 214 N. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Routine Aug. 5 (Bakery 10 Red, 5 Blue) (Food service 20 Red, 5 Blue)

Lee’s Tahitian Restaurant, 1342 Jadwin Ave., Richland, Follow-up Aug. 6 (5 Red, 10 Blue)

Lil Firehouse Coffee, 895 Stevens Drive, Richland, Follow-up Aug. 6 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Little Randy’s Diner, 104 W. First Ave., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 8 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

Mark Twain Elementary School, 1801 Road 40, Pasco, Routine Aug. 5 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

McDonald’s, 2700 S. Quillan St., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 7 (0 Red, 0 Blue) McDonald’s, 101 Wellsian Way, Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Mongolian & Pho, 2607 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 7 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

Nutricion Nueva Vida, 1920 W. Bonneville St., Pasco, Routine Aug. 7 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Panaderia Colima, 801 W. Clark St., Pasco, Routine Aug. 7 (30 Red, 5 Blue)

Papa John’s Pizza, 2187 W. Van Giesen St., Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Pasco High School, 1108 N. 10th Ave., Pasco, Routine Aug. 5 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Richland Food Mart, 500 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Aug. 6 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Round Table Pizza, 1769 Leslie Road, Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Some Bagels Too, 810 S. Washington St., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 5 (10 Red, 3 Blue) Sterling’s, 3200 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 7 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Subway, 2624 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 7 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Taco Bell, 2718 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine Aug. 7 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

The Camelias Tacos, 1415 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

The Wild Taco, 72 Wellsian Way, Richland, Routine Aug. 7 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Tri-Cities Food Co-op, 1420 Jadwin Ave., Richland, Routine Aug. 8 (Espresso Bar 0 Red, 5 Blue) (Grocery 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Produce 5 Red, 0 Blue)