70 rodent droppings. Live roaches. Wastewater backup. Issues at a Miami-Dade restaurant
A dry storage area infested with two kinds of vermin and wastewater coming up through the kitchen floor drain topped the list of reasons a North Miami-Dade restaurant was shut down Friday after a state inspection.
The inspector noted 16 violations, four of which were High Priority, at Nick Caribbean Restaurant, 14530 W. Dixie Hwy.
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Most prominent among the High Priority violations were “approximately 70 rodent droppings on top of the shelves in dry storage room next to kitchen.”
Also on dry storage shelves: four live roaches. Another quintet of live and moving roaches were under a kitchen prep table.
Under that table, the inspector counted eight roach corpses. About 10 were on top of the water heater. A dozen lay legs up under shelves by the three-compartment sink.
Speaking of the three-compartment sink, “wastewater from the triple sink was backing up through the floor drain in the kitchen area.”
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The hand-wash sink in the three-compartment area didn’t have soap, making it a hand-wetting sink. Neither the sink in the restroom nor the one in the kitchen possessed paper towels.
The oven could have used a date with Easy Off, being “soiled” with an “accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris.”
“No probe thermometer provided to measure the temperature of food products.” That’s a basic restaurant food safety tool.
Nick Caribbean passed re-inspection on Saturday.
