3 restaurants and a market fail food safety inspections in Tri-Cities
The Benton Franklin Health District gave four failing grades for food safety inspections at restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area from March 28 to April 3.
The health district’s food safety team gave passing marks on 40 inspections, with 24 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 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
Kim’s Market, 1909 W. Court St., Pasco, Follow-up April 2 (30 Red, 0 Blue)
Notes: Raw meats stored above ready-to-eat food; hot holding temperatures <135°F (chicken wings, mini tacos and chicken sandwich in hot holding case as cool as 111° and were discarded).
Osaka Teriyaki & Sushi, 4101 W. 27th Place, Kennewick, Routine April 1 (90 Red, 10 Blue)
Notes: Lack of adequate managerial control; improper cooling procedures; non-food grade sanitizer used for food contact surfaces in kitchen; improper non-continuous cooking; room temperature storage (edamame).
El Paraiso, 913 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine March 30 (40 Red, 0 Blue)
Notes: No certified food protection manager on staff; food worker cards not 100%; inadequate handwashing facilities (no paper towels at two sinks); toxic substance not properly used (sanitizer for food contact services did not meet antimicrobial criteria); potentially unsafe food (half and half and heavy whipping cream too old and cream cheese moldy).
Wok King, 7011 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick, Routine March 31 (70 Red, 12 Blue)
Notes: Inadequate managerial control; hands not washed as required (worker stacked dirty dishes and then reached for clean dishes); no record kept of parasite destruction of raw wild salmon served raw in sushi rolls; toxic substances not properly stored (containers of WD-40, DayQuil and other chemicals stored by food); improper use of time as a control (shrimp replaced on buffet line without marking time to show when it must be discarded).
Passed inspections
AFC Sushi @ Safeway, 5204 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 0 Blue) (Hazard analysis of critical control points 0 Red, 0 Blue)
Auntie Anne’s Pretzels, 1321 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick, Routine, April 1 (5 Red, 0 Blue)
Circle K, 4201 W. 27th Ave., Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 3 Blue)
Cinnabon, 1321 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick, Routine, April 1 (10 Red, 5 Blue)
Doggie Style Gourmet (Cart), 591 Stevens Drive, Richland, Routine, March 28 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
The Five Stars Grill, 221 S. 10th Ave., Pasco, Routine, April 3 (15 Red, 0 Blue)
Friends Corner, 3210 Road 44, Pasco, Routine, April 1 (Food store 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Grocery 0 Red, 0 Blue)
Hampton Inn & Suites, 6826 Burden Blvd., Pasco, Routine, April 3 (10 Red, 0 Blue)
Hop N Drops, 4898 W. Hildebrand Blvd., Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
IHop, 6511 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
The Human Bean, 4305 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (10 Red, 0 Blue)
Isaac Stevens Middle School, 1120 N. 22nd Ave., Pasco, Routine, April 2 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Jacksons, 2607 Kingsgate Way, Richland, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Longfellow Elementary School, 300 N. Eighth Ave., Pasco, Routine, April 2 (10 Red, 5 Blue)
Lucky Food Mart, 5651 W. 36th Place, Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 5 Blue)
Mariscos El Kora (Mobile), 1202 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Routine, March 30 (25 Red, 5 Blue)
Maya Angelou Elementary School, 6001 Road 84, Pasco, Routine, April 3 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
My Place Hotel, 6830 Rodeo Drive, Pasco, Routine, April 3 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
North Franklin Eagles Basketball, 1100 W. Clark St., Connell, Routine, March 28 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Nanis, 6607 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick, Routine, March 30 (0 Red, 5 Blue)
One Stop Mart, 2221 E. Lewis St., Pasco, Follow-up, April 2 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Pearl Coffee, 2221 E. Lewis St., Pasco, Follow-up, April 2 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Pizza Speedway, 525 N. Edison St., Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Rocket Mart, 5304 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Rowena Chess Elementary School, 715 N. 24th Ave., Pasco, Routine, April 2 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Safeway 5204 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (Bakery 0 Red, 5 Blue) (Deli 25 Red, 0 Blue) (Meat 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Produce 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Store 0 Red, 0 Blue)
Safeway — Starbucks, 5204 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Shakey Shug, 1205 Thayer Drive, Richland, Routine, March 31 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Swagg Coffee Bar, 4845 Broadmoor Blvd., Pasco, Routine, April 1 (10 Red, 3 Blue)
Tacos De Pastor, 104 S. Tacoma St., Pasco, Routine, April 3 (30 Red, 0 Blue)
Taqueria Las Marias, 1501 W. Sylvester St., Pasco, Routine, March 30 (15 Red, 0 Blue)
Three Rivers Elementary, 3901 Road 84, Pasco, Routine, April 3 (0 Red, 0 Blue)
Vava’s Waffles, 6494 W. Skagit Ave., Kennewick, Routine, March 30 (15 Red, 2 Blue)
This story was originally published April 8, 2026 at 10:44 AM.