South Florida Sun Sentinel
Mar 07, 2022 1:50 PM
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Sun Sentinel Restaurant Inspections
Live flies buzzing around food prep areas and dead roaches in a toilet prompted inspectors to shut down two restaurants in South Florida.
The restaurants forced to close were Asahi Zheng in North Lauderdale and Angelo’s Too Restaurant & Pizzeria in Jupiter.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel highlights restaurant inspections in Broward and Palm Beach counties from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. We cull through hundreds of restaurant and bar inspections that happen weekly and spotlight places ordered shut for “high-priority violations,” like improper food temperatures or dead cockroaches.
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Asahi Zheng, North Lauderdale
Ordered shut: March 1, re-opened same day
Why: 19 violations (five high priority) temporarily closed this restaurant after they found a slew of violations, ranging from five dead roaches in a toilet to objectionable odors in the main kitchen.
Inspectors also found over 30 live flies buzzing around the facility, in the kitchen, the food prep areas, with some insects landing on a container of sugar and various canned foods in the dry storage area.
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Inspectors observed sewage and wastewater backed up in a sink the kitchen, and no way for employees to wash dishes other than the sink clogged with wastewater.
The facility was allowed to re-open the same day after the violations were corrected.
Angelo’s Too Restaurant and Pizzeria, Jupiter
10136 W Indiantown Road #C-2
Ordered shut: Feb. 28, re-opened March 1
Why: Eight violations, two of which were high priority, caused inspectors to shut down this restaurant for a day. Inspectors found 65 lives flies throughout the establishment. Other violations included black/green like mold substance in the inside of the ice machine, dirty floors and the server station soda’s dispenser heads covered with some type of debris.
