Moldy milk and warm raw meat: Tri-Cities restaurant safety inspections

The Benton Franklin Health District gave 10 failing grades for food safety inspections at restaurants and other establishments selling food in the Tri-Cities area from May 16-22.

The health district’s food safety team gave passing marks on 47 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

Child Development Center, 315 W. Court St., Pasco, Routine May 19 (50 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: Employees failed to wash hands as required (two food workers washed hands less than five seconds before entering kitchen); improper room-temperature foods (tubs of raw ground beef too warm after being left on counter).

El Padrino Bakery, 615 W. Columbia Drive, Kennewick, Routine May 21 (60 Red, 2 Blue)

Notes: Lack of adequate active managerial control; improper date marking for high risk foods (no date mark on container of milk and cream that was at least one week old and on another that was about three days old); room-temperature foods (container of milk at 60°F after sitting out of fridge for an hour); food not in good condition (container of milk and cream had mold); inadequate handwashing facilities (both handwash stations had no paper towels, the bathroom handwash sink had no hand soap, and bakery handwash sink held multiple items, such as pencils and soap containers).

Largoo’s Tacos, 3315 W. Court St., Pasco, Follow-up May 21 (130 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager; bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat foods (employee handled ready-to-eat tortillas with bare hands after removing them from the grill – food was discarded); hands not washed as required (worker touched face and then did not wash hands before preparing food); improper date marking for high risk foods (bag of deli meat was opened nine days ago and should have been discarded after seven days); raw meat stored improperly near ready-to-eat foods, posing contamination risk; improper hot holding temperatures (cooked onions and peppers as cool as 110°F and should have been at least 135°F); lack of compliance with approved procedures; improper cooling procedures.

Los 3 Hermanos, 1500 W. Court St., Pasco, Follow-up May 19 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager; lack of compliance with food permit (food protection manager certification must be obtained within 30 days).

McDonald’s, 101 Wellsian Way, Richland, Routine May 20 (55 Red, 3 Blue)

Notes: Lack of adequate active managerial control; improper use of time as a control for room-temperature foods (french fries that had been removed from the fryer were as cool as 125°F; bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat foods (worker scooping and bagging french fries touched them with bare hands).

Muchas Gracias Mexican Food, 701 Vineyard Drive, Kennewick, Follow-up May 19 (25 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: Inadequate handwashing facilities (no paper towels at handwashing station); lack of compliance with approved procedures; improper preparation of raw shell eggs; inadequate temperature-control equipment (walk-in cooler must be serviced to maintain cold temperature).

Sno Cone Cart, 6200 Burden Blvd., Pasco, Routine May 17 (35 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Employee failed to wash hands as required (did not wash hands before putting on gloves to prepare food after working the cash register); inadequate handwashing facilities (water turned off when inspector arrived and water heater was not heating water).

Tacos La Chula, 2120 E. Lewis St., Pasco, Follow-up May 19 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager; noncompliance with permit procedures.

Tacos Sahuayo, 104 S. Oregon St., Pasco, Follow-up May 19 (45 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: No certified food protection manager; room-temperature foods (raw meat left at room temperature for 30 minutes was too warm); lack of compliance with food permit (certified food protection certification must be obtained within 30 days); food worker cards not 100%.

Wok King, 7011 W. Canal Drive, Kennewick, Follow-up May 22 (25 Red, 15 Blue)

Notes: Improper bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat foods (cooked and cooled shrimp for ceviche handled with bare hands).

Passed inspections

1st Base Stand, 6200 Burden Blvd., Pasco, Routine May 17 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Brick House Pizza, 3791 W. Van Giesen St., West Richland, Routine May 18 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Burger Ranch, 108 S. Oregon Ave., Pasco, Follow-up May 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Captain Gray Elementary School, 1102 N. 10th Ave., Pasco, Routine May 19 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Columbia River Elementary School, 9011 Burns Road, Pasco, Routine May 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Coyote Canyon Winery, 357 Port Ave., Prosser, Routine May 20 (5 Red, 5 Blue)

Delta High School, 5801 Broadmoor Blvd., Pasco, Routine May 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Dickeys Barbeque Pit, 2530 Queensgate Drive, Richland, Routine May 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Dollar Tree (Store), 3017 W. Kennewick Ave., Kennewick, Routine May 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Dust Devils Stadium – Pizza Hut, 6200 Burden Blvd., Pasco, Routine May 18 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Dusty’s Grill Cart, 6200 Burden Blvd., Pasco, Routine May 18 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Fry Shack, 6200 Burden Blvd., Pasco, Routine May 17 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Hampton Inn Kennewick, 3715 Plaza Way, Kennewick, Routine May 22 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Indigenous Eats, 5426 N. Road 68, Pasco, Routine May 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

James McGee Elementary School, 4601 N. Horizon Drive, Pasco, Routine May 21 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Juniors Tacos, 530 W. Court St., Pasco, Follow-up May 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

KFC/Taco Bell, 901 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick, Routine May 22 (5 Red, 5 Blue)

King’s Cup Coffee, 3425 King Ave., Pasco, Follow-up May 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

La Hacienda Meat Market, 4242 W. Van Giesen Drive, West Richland, Routine May 18 (10 Red, 5 Blue)

La Villa (Food service), 214 N. Fourth Ave., Pasco, Follow-up May 18 (15 Red, 0 Blue)

Lil’ Moon Diner, 3790 W. Van Giesen St., West Richland, Routine May 18 (25 Red, 5 Blue)

Los Pinos, 1504 W. Lewis St., Pasco, Follow-up May 19 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Meals On Wheels, 500 S. Auburn St., Kennewick, Routine May 18 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Panda Express, 2885 Duportail St., Richland, Routine May 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Panera Bread, 2768 Duportail St., Richland, Routine May 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Pasco High School, 1108 N. 10th Ave., Pasco, Routine May 19 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Pasco II Child Development Center, 1010 S. Sixth Ave., Pasco, Routine May 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Pasco School District Early Learning Center, 1317 N. Seventh Ave., Pasco, Routine May 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Red Apple Market, 902 S. Washington St., Kennewick, Routine May 20 (Food service 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Meat 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Store 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Red Lion Hotel Columbia Center, 1101 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Kennewick, Routine May 19 (20 Red, 0 Blue) (Caterer 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Rosalind Franklin STEM Elementary School, 6010 Road 52, Pasco, Routine May 21 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Sageview High School – Kitchen, 6091 Burns Road, Pasco, Routine May 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Sake Express, 2576 Queensgate Drive, Richland, Routine May 21 (5 Red, 13 Blue)

Subway, 210 Merlot Drive, Prosser, Routine May 20 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Subway, 4820 N. Road 68, Pasco, Follow-up May 19 (5 Red, 5 Blue)

Swift Stop, 2110 Swift Blvd., Richland, Routine May 20 (Food service 30 Red, 0 Blue) (Store 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Tri-Cities Food Co-op, 1420 Jadwin Ave., Richland, Routine May 18 (Espresso Bar 20 Red, 0 Blue) (Grocery 0 Red, 0 Blue) (Produce 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Wake Up Call, 300 N. Ely St., Kennewick, Routine May 21 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Wake Up Coffee, 2615 S. Vancouver St., Kennewick, Routine May 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Walmart, 2801 Duportail St., Richland, Routine May 21 (Deli 5 Red, 0 Blue)