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Cleaned Out, Yes—But Clean, Too

by Caitlin Emma | Feb 23, 2012 8:45 am

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Posted to: Food, Health Care

Caitlin Emma Photo Days after armed robbers terrorized Five Guys Burgers and Fries, the Amity Road burger joint received another surprise visitor—a city health inspector who gave it high marks.

Five Guys received one of the highest grades during the city’s latest round of routine restaurant inspections.

Sanitarians at the Environmental Health Department inspect all of New Haven’s restaurants once a year. Restaurants with a score of less than 80 have about two weeks to make the recommended corrections. The department can also close a restaurant, regardless of score, if they see an immediate danger to public health.

The latest round of inspections called for a lot of cleaning and maybe some rodent poop removal at some spots, but for the most part, restaurants made the grade.

Five Guys scored second highest. The good news was doubly welcome, considering the bad news that hit the restaurant just days before that inspection: Two masked men, one of whom had a gun, held up an employee by the Dumpster in back of the restaurant. The robbers soon made off with cash from the safe inside and the workers’ cell phones. Police searched for suspects, but haven’t found them yet. It was the second theft at the burger joint in the past few months. Westville top cop Lt. Marty Tchakirides said Thursday that Detective Raghue Tennant is heading the ongoing investigation into the most recent heist. “It looks like they had a plan,” Tchakirides said about the thieves. “They were focused. They corralled the employees.  They took their cell phones away from them They were in and out very quickly.”

Below are some of the best and worst health inspection scores from the first two weeks of February.

Feb. 2, 2012

Gennaro’s Apizza, LLC, 888 Howard Ave.
Score: 80/100
Corrections due: ASAP

• Fix ceiling tiles/clean air vents
• Don’t store lettuce and other ready-to-eat foods under raw eggs
• Empty mop water
• Hair restraints
• Touch up shelves/clean shelves/clean tracks on slide doors
• Clean and fix walls
• Clean floor of coolers and freezers
• Missing end cap on light shield/cover exposed food
• Invent single serving plates and containers
• Label products in original containers
• Fix defective flooring and clean floors
• Seal floor/wall junctions
• No drinking from an open (uncovered) container in food prep area
• Keep rear door shut or install screen

Feb. 3, 2012

Dunkin’ Donuts, 864 Whalley Ave.
Score: 98/100
Pre-operational inspection

• Okay to license

Feb. 7, 2012

S’Wings LLC, 280 Crown St.
Score: 77/100
Corrections due: two weeks

• Invent single serve containers
• Touch up shelves/clean shelves
• Label products in original container
• Clean and fix floors
• Wipe inside coolers and freezers/clean soda and juice machine in cooler
• Fix deficient gaskets on doors/clean gaskets on doors
• Clean hood system
• Store wipe cloths
• Clean wall behind stove/fix deficient walls/clean ceiling tiles
• Cover exposed food products
• Clean sign (de-grease and dust)/clean window sills/clean air vents
• Seal floor/wall junctions
• Fix deficient metal cover on table edge
• Rodent droppings present (i.e. bath)
• Need covered trash can in bath for feminine products
• Hang up mops and brooms
• Lower hot water at bath hand sink to in between 110-115 degrees Fahrenheit
• When cooling foods! 140 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit within two hours and 70 to 45 degrees Fahrenheit in four more
• Fix paper towel dispenser

Feb. 8, 2012

Kudeta, 27 Temple St.
Score: 80/100
Corrections due: ASAP

• Clean floors/clean floor by grease trap
• Need soap at kitchen hand sink/need paper towel at front bin
• Fix defective gaskets on doors/clean gaskets
• Don’t store food or drink on the floor
• Don’t store raw eggs next to ready-to-eat foods
• Pick up defective shelves/clean shelves
• Store wipe cloths
• Label products not in original containers
• Clean tracks on sliding doors
• Need a lid on all open drink containers
• Pre-set tables with exposed utensils
• Need soap and paper towels at rear handsink
• Touch up walls/fix defective glass wall panel
• Need no smoking signs at entrances

Feb. 15, 2012

Five Guys Burgers and Fries, 75 Amity Road
Score: 96/100
Corrections due: May 12, 2012

• Missing labels on shaker containers of granular
• Paper towels resting on Agru in ware wash room
• Missing waste basket at food prep area hand sink
• Brooms stored on floor
• Hall store room—jumbled

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