7 restaurants and meat market fail health inspections in Tri-Cities

The Benton Franklin Health District gave seven failing grades for food safety inspections at restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area from Feb. 14-20.

The health district’s food safety team gave passing marks on 49 inspections, with 20 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 follow-up 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, bare-hand contact with foods or refrigerating meat in a way that could contaminate other food.

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, with one business line passing and another failing.

Information about passed and failed inspections includes only licensed establishments. The health district also responds to complaints of unlicensed pop-up food vendors in Benton and Franklin counties.

To see more inspection results or details of inspections, go to inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/bfhd.

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

Failed inspections

Casa Mia, 607 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Feb. 18 (65 Red, 5 Blue) Notes: Lack of adequate managerial control; improper cooling procedures (cooked noodles); cold holding temperatures >45°F (tomato sauce as warm as 52°); room temperature storage (beef broth).

Kabana King (Meat), 4311 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Follow-up Feb. 19 (50 Red, 3 Blue) Notes: Lack of conformance with approved procedures; food not shown to be obtained from approved source (no label on sour cream); inadequate handwashing facilities (handwashing sink blocked by meat slicer blade); food contact surfaces not cleaned and sanitized (four meat slicers and meat grinder with residues of raw meat).

Largoo’s Tacos, 3315 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 20 (40 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: Not properly disposing of potentially unsafe food (no date on deli meat); raw meat not stored to prevent contamination of ready-to-eat food; hot holding temperatures <135°F (pork as cool as 98° and beef as cool as 108°).

Los Pinos, 1504 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 19 (60 Red, 5 Blue) Notes: Hot holding temperatures <135°F (chicharrónes with meat pieces in hot holding case at 98°); room temperature storage (chicharrónes); toxic substances not properly used (bleach poured directly onto food contact surfaces).

Monarca Ice Cream, 1830 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 20 (90 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; not properly disposing of potentially unsafe food (gallon of milk and cream cheese lacked adequate date marking); hot holding temperatures <135°F (corn at 115°); hands not washed as required (worker scrubbed hands for less than 15 seconds); toxic substances not properly identified (no label on spray bottle with bleach); food contact surfaces not cleaned and sanitized (old food residue in ice cream maker’s tube mixer).

Saap Lao Thai Kitchen, 4525 Road 68, Pasco, Routine Feb. 20 (65 Red, 10 Blue) Notes: Improper cooling procedures (cooked chicken); lack of adequate managerial control; cold holding temperatures >45°F; room temperature storage.

Zip’s, 1756 Fowler St., Richland, Follow-up Feb. 19 (25 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: Hot holding temperatures <135°F (french fries under heat light as cool as 110°).

Passed inspections

Beltran’s Bakery, 1724 W. Clark St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 19 (0 Red, 2 Blue)

Birrieria Donitas, 490 Wine Country Road, Prosser, Routine Feb. 19 (20 Red, 0 Blue)

Bruchi’s, 2615 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine Feb. 18 (15 Red, 5 Blue)

Burger King, 1033 George Washington Way, Richland, Follow-up Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Caffeine Bar, 460 Williams Blvd., Richland, Routine Feb. 19 (0 Red, 3 Blue)

Cakes Sweets and More, 1999 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 19 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Carniceria El Sol, 623 9th St., Benton City, Follow-up Feb. 20 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Carniceria La Catrina, 2115 E. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 20 (30 Red, 5 Blue)

Carniceria Los Toreros, 210 Chardonnay Ave., Prosser, Routine Feb. 19 (10 Red, 5 Blue) (Commissary 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Chicken & Bowl, 570 Swift Blvd., Richland, Follow-up Feb. 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Comfort Inn Kennewick Richland, 7801 W. Quinault Ave., Kennewick, Follow-up Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Costco Wholesale, 8505 W. Gage Blvd., Kennewick, Routine Feb. 18 (Bakery 0 Red, 3 Blue) (Deli 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Meat 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Restaurant 0 Red, 3 Blue) (Store 15 Red, 0 Blue)

DC Vending — Costco, 8505 W. Gage Blvd., Kennewick, Routine Feb. 18 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Dog Haus, 7425 Sandifur Parkway, Pasco, Routine Feb. 20 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Domino’s Pizza, 1408 Jadwin Ave., Richland, Routine Feb. 19 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

El Habanero Mexican Taqueria (Commissary use), 1803 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 19 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

El Tequilas, 109 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine Feb. 19 (10 Red, 3 Blue)

Enodav Wine Company, 590 Merlot Drive, Prosser, Routine Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Firehouse Subs, 4845 Broadmoor Blvd., Pasco, Routine Feb. 20 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Firehouse Subs, 6255 Keene Road, West Richland, Routine Feb. 20 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Graze “A Drive Thru,” 131 N. Ely St., Kennewick, Follow-up Feb. 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Hometown Brunch, 413 Wine Country Road, Prosser, Routine Feb. 19 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

IDK Restaurant, 335 W. Columbia Drive, Kennewick, Routine Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Italiano’s, 4850 Paradise Way, West Richland, Routine Feb. 20 (10 Red, 5 Blue)

Jersey Mike’s Subs, 1745 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Feb. 17 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Kabana King, 4311 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine Feb. 19 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

La Duena Mini Market, 411 W. Clark St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 20 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

La Malquerida, 107 Vista Way, Kennewick, Follow-up Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Los Pinos (Commissary), 1504 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Meals On Wheels, 500 Amon Park Drive, Richland, Routine Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Mongolian & Pho, 2607 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine Feb. 18 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

North Franklin Eagles Basketball, 1100 W. Clark St., Connell, Routine Feb. 14 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Rancho Meat Market, 4903 Robert Wayne Drive, Pasco, Follow-up Feb. 20 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Swagg Coffee Bar, 2915 N. 20th Ave., Pasco, Routine Feb. 20 (10 Red, 5 Blue)

Tacos Jalisco (Mobile), 1215 W. 4th Ave., Kennewick, Routine Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

The Palm Bar & Grill, 603 Ninth St., Benton City, Routine Feb. 17 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Trejo’s Mexican Restaurant, 1833 W. Court St., Pasco, Follow-up Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Tucannon Cellars, 40504 Demoss Road, Benton City, Routine Feb. 20 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Urban Grounds, 412 Riverstone Drive, Richland, Routine Feb. 19 (10 Red, 8 Blue)

Wautoma Springs, 236 Port Ave., Prosser, Routine Feb. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Westside Pizza, 1759 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Feb. 17 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Zintel Creek Golf Club - The Edge, 314 N. Underwood St., Kennewick, Routine Feb. 18 (5 Red, 0 Blue)