Original Pancake House, DiSalvo's ordered shut

Roaches, mold found at numerous restaurants in South Florida last week

DORAL, Fla. – Records show the Original Pancake House in Doral was ordered shut last week due to a roach problem.

Koizumi Japanese Buffet in Lauderhill was ordered shut for the second time in two weeks. Local 10's Jeff Weinser discovered a roach problem still existed after the first closure.

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Records show, the popular DiSavlo's Pizza  in Hollywood needed a good cleaning and there was also roach activity.

Below is a list of places ordered shut and just some of the violations discovered. All the places listed were allowed to re-open following ordered clean up and re-inspections.

***Original Pancake House

9903 NW 41st Street

Doral

14 violations

Ordered shut May 13

"Roach activity present as evidenced by approximately 70 live roaches found in a storage room inside three electrical panels, on the walls behind boxes and crawling on the floor. This room is about 17 feet away from the kitchen and about 8 feet away from the dish machine. This room housed some glassware inside racks to be discarded and and old non working toaster. Also a couple a ladders. No doors are separating the rooms."

"Interior of oven has heavy accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris."

***DiSalvo's Pizza

4190 N. 46th Ave.

Hollywood

27 violations

Ordered shut May 14 based on complaint

Also ordered shut Aug. 4, 2014

"Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 1 live roach on wall next to flip top cooler across from grill About 20 roaches on wall behind dish machine 1 live roach in dry storage area on slicer, 1 live roach on wall next to walk in cooler 1 live roach behind bar area, there are no doors between said areas."

"Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, or food storage area."

"Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine."

"Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance inside the ice bin.

"Build-up of mold-like substance on nonfood-contact surface in dish area."

"Grease accumulated on kitchen floor and/or under cooking equipment."

"Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. At cook line in pizza prep action and dish area."

"Slicer blade guard soiled with old food debris."

***Koizumi Japanese Buffet

5200 N. University Drive

Lauderhill

15 violations

Ordered shut May 15

Ordered shut April 29 based on complaint

"Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 1 on a gallon bottle of mayonnaise on a shelf in the kitchen, 1 on a pole behind a prep table in the kitchen. 1 under the hand sink by the 3 compartment sink. 1 on a door in the kitchen that leads to the sushi prep area. 1 on a prep table behind the sushi bar. **Repeat Violation**"

"Dead roaches on premises. 1 on a gallon bottle of mayonnaise on a shelf in the kitchen. 1 under a hand sink in the service area. 1 in the sink next to the Dish machine. 1 on the floor by the employee bathroom. 1 on a sheet pan on the speed rack in the kitchen. 1 on the floor behind the sushi bar."

"Employee handled soiled dishes or utensils and then handled clean dishes or utensils without washing hands. Observed the dishwasher do this.. Employee was reminded of the need to wash hands"

***Cap's Place

2980 N. 31st Ave.

Lighthouse Point

13 violations

Ordered shut May 14 based on complaint

"Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed approximately 20 live roaches in cook line area, 3 live roaches at cook line cooler, 2 live roaches on can opener, 12 live roaches on door and gaskets around dessert storage cooler in north side servers area, 9 live roaches inside cold mug storage cooler in south side servers area and 4 live roaches in counter area in servers station on south side."

"Small flying insects in bar area. Side bar."

"Dead roaches on premises. Approximately 30 dead roaches in servers station and 3 dead roaches in cook line area."

***Miami Blu Gin

5445 Collins Ave.

Ordered shut last week

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***Munchies Cafe

16504 NW 49th Ave.

Miami Lakes

14 violations

Ordered shut May 15

"Rodent activity present as evidenced by approximately 10-15 rodent droppings founding the storage on the floor next to exposed bait , appeared "not moist"

"Rodent bait not contained in a covered, tamper-resistant bait station. Storage room floors, appeared eaten."

"Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine."

"Roach activity present as evidenced by approximately 20-30 live roaches found, approximately 15-20 underneath a food prep table in the corners and cracks of the table, and, approximately 6 inside the gaskets of a reach in cooler, 1 crawling on the hand wash sink and and approximately 2-4 behind the three compartment sink where sink is mounted to the wall. An additional approximately 10 more live roaches fell from behind a wooden wall panel in the kitchen, totaling approximately 30-40 live roaches."

***Sabores Latino Restaurant

2927 NW 7th Ave.

Miami

25 violations

Ordered shut May 11

"Food with mold-like growth. See stop sale. Picante and tortilla dough."

"Rodent activity present as evidenced by rodent droppings found. As evidence of approximately 50 plus dry Under front counter shelves and approximately 25 plus dry in back storage area."

"Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. As evidence of 2 in the 3 compartment sink and 15 or more under the front counter shelves."

"Roach excrement and/or droppings present. Approximately 75 plus on walls and shelves under the front counter and on shelves in ware washing area. **Repeat Violation**"

"Interior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. **Repeat Violation**"

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