Coffee spot ordered closed. 8 food sellers fail Tri-Cities health inspections
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- Eight Tri‑Cities food operations received failing inspection grades.
- Follow‑ups are required for operations with at least 35 red points.
- Common failures: inadequate handwashing, improper hot/cold holding and cooling.
The Benton Franklin Health District gave eight failing grades for food safety inspections at restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area from March 21-27.
The health district’s food safety team gave passing marks on 40 inspections, with 17 of those earning perfect scores.
The inspectors closed a Pasco mobile coffee stand, Our Sweet Haven, because it had no warm water for handwashing. As of Thursday morning it had not yet reopened.
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 the past week’s inspections, go to inspections.myhealthdepartment.com/bfhd.
For questions or complaints about food safety in Benton or Franklin counties, email contactusfoodsafety@BFHD.WA.GOV.
Food customers may take a survey at bit.ly/FoodSafetyConsumerSurvey, and owners and employees of food establishments may take a survey at bit.ly/FoodSafetyIndustrySurvey.
Failed inspections
Burger Ranch, 108 S. Oregon Ave., Pasco, Routine March 26 (75 Red, 5 Blue) Notes: Lack of active managerial control; potentially unsafe food not properly disposed (no date mark on sliced deli turkey); improper use of time as temperature control (fries under heat lamp discarded); hands not washed as required (hands not washed before putting on clean gloves); inadequate handwashing facilities (no soap at one kitchen handwashing sink).
Carniceria La Cabana (Food service), 5426 N. Road 68, Pasco, Routine March 23 (60 Red, 7 Blue) Notes: Lack of active managerial control; worker did not wash hands before putting on new gloves; raw eggs not stored away from ready-to-eat foods; cold holding temperatures >45°F (cut melon in display cooler); no consumer advisory for shrimp served raw; toxic substance not properly used (bleach laundry detergent rather than food grade sanitizer being used).
La Casita, 6418 W. Skagit Ave., Kennewick, Routine March 27 (65 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: Lack of active managerial control; bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods (cut avocado); hot holding temperatures <135°F (cooked onions and peppers as cool as 95°); lack of conformance with approved procedures.
La Villa (Food service), 214 N. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Routine March 26 (55 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: Lack of active managerial control; improper cooling procedures; hot holding temperatures <135°F (beef soup, mozzarella cheese taquitos and beef stew as cool as 109°).
Our Sweet Haven, 3616 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine March 26 (40 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: Food worker cards not 100%; hands not washed as required (cold water used); inadequate handwashing facilities (water was only 50°F). Food stand ordered closed until it has handwashing water of 100°F.
7-Eleven, 415 Wright Ave., Richland, Follow-up March 24 (50 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: Hands not washed as required (food worker washed hands for less than required 20 seconds); improper use of time as a temperature control (mini tacos and chicken).
Tacos Sahuayo, 104 S. Oregon St., Pasco, Routine March 26 (60 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: Lack of active managerial control; lack of conformance with approved procedures; food worker cards not 100%; improper cooling procedures; improper reheating procedures for hot holding.
Yoke’s Fresh Market (Deli), 454 Keene Rd., Richland, Routine March 24 (35 Red, 0 Blue) Notes: Inadequate handwashing facilities (no paper towels at handwashing station); improper use of time as a control (cooked hash browns and scrambled eggs had no time and temperature marked and were too cool).
Passed inspections
Airfield Estates Winery, 560 Merlot Drive, Prosser, Routine March 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Angel Brook Farm Ice Cream, 8524 W. Gage Blvd., Kennewick, Routine March 27 (25 Red, 0 Blue)
Barrel Springs Winery, 46601 N. Gap Road, Prosser, Routine March 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Burger King, 102 Merlot Drive, Prosser, Routine March 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Circle K with Subway (Food service), 12231 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine March 23 (5 Red, 0 Blue)
Coffee Squad, 201 N. Edison St., Suite 242, Kennewick, Routine March 26 (5 Red, 0 Blue)
Comfort Suites, 3703 Plaza Way, Kennewick, Routine March 24 (25 Red, 0 Blue)
Costco Wholesale, 3125 Queensgate Drive, Richland, Routine March 26 (Bakery 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Meat 0 Red, 0 Blue)
Costa Vida, 4309 W. 27th Place, Kennewick, Routine March 26 (0 Red, 5 Blue) (Hazard analysis of critical control points 0 Red, 0 Blue)
Crumbl Cookies, 2665 Queensgate Drive, Richland, Routine March 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Dutch Bros, 4305 W. 27th Place, Kennewick, Routine March 25 (15 Red, 3 Blue)
Firehouse Subs, 10799 Ridgeline Drive, Kennewick, Routine March 23 (30 Red, 0 Blue)
Graze, 650 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine March 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Grumpy Monkey Cookie Co., 910 S. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick, Routine March 24 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Inca Mexican Restaurant, 1813 Leslie Road, Richland, Routine March 24 (0 Red, 8 Blue)
Jimmy John’s, 7530 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine March 23 (5 Red, 0 Blue)
Jochos Tacos, 202 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine March 26 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Just Juice, 4309 W. 27th Place, Kennewick, Routine March 26 (10 Red, 0 Blue)
La Villa (Bakery), 214 N. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Routine March 26 (5 Red, 0 Blue)
Las Lupitas, 1315 E. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine March 26 (10 Red, 0 Blue)
McDonald’s, 1275 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine March 27 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
McDonald’s, 7505 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine March 23 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Novel Coffee, 950 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine March 27 (10 Red, 0 Blue)
Porter’s Real Barbecue, 1080 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine March 27 (25 Red, 0 Blue)
Round Table Pizza, 3201 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine March 26 (5 Red, 0 Blue)
Subway, 2604 Tweedt Ct., Kennewick, Routine March 26 (5 Red, 0 Blue)
Sunflower Juice & Delights, 1121 Meade Ave., Prosser, Routine March 27 (0 Red, 5 Blue)
Toyota Center/Bobablastic, 7016 W. Grandridge Blvd., Kennewick, Routine March 23 (0 Red, 5 Blue)
Tri-Cities Cider House, 1082 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine March 24 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Yogurt Beach, 910 S. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick, Routine March 24 (5 Red, 0 Blue)
Yoke’s Fresh Market, 454 Keene Road, Richland, Routine March 24 (Bakery 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Coffee 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Hazard analysis of critical control points 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Meat 5 Red, 0 Blue) (Store 0 Red, 0 Blue)
This story was originally published April 2, 2026 at 12:08 PM.