An inspector found poop in the panko and poor sanitizing at a Florida Keys restaurant
Having a dishwasher that doesn’t sanitize your dishes seems an even bigger problem for a restaurant when it has rodents that drop poop pellets in the container with breadcrumbs.
A Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation inspector found those problems and others Monday at Key Largo’s Salty’s Bar & Grill, 103900 Overseas Hwy. The routine inspection found 15 violations, six of which were High Priority violations.
In the kitchen, the inspector saw “approximately 30 droppings inside the panko white bin container.” This also resulted in a Stop Sale on all the panko in the container.
A can opener blade was a “food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime.”
“Floor area(s) covered with standing water ... at the kitchen area by the keg reach-in cooler.”
The cookline reach-in cooler’s “interior/shelves have an accumulation of soil residues.”
The dishwasher’s chlorine sanitizer was absent, measuring zero parts per million.
A cookline wet wiping cloth wasn’t in the sanitizing solution that it’s supposed to be soaking in when not being used.
The failed inspection closed Salty’s until the restaurant passed a callback inspection on Tuesday.
This story was originally published December 20, 2024 at 5:53 AM.
