Unsafe pastelitos, chicken wings, Redi-Whip, other foods at a Kendall 7-Eleven
State inspectors showered a Kendall 7-Eleven with Stop Sale orders on a picnic lunch worth of food and Stop Use orders on cold storage units during a Tuesday visit.
The 7-Eleven at 10721 SW 56th St. failed the inspection by Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services inspectors Wenndy Ayerdis and Luis Lopez, so they’ll be back on or before April 28 for a re-inspection. Should the corporate-owned location get the equipment hit with Stop Use orders fixed before then, management can reach out to the state for a check.
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Here’s some of the violations the inspectors found.
“Old liquid food residue encrusted on soda machine dispensing nozzles.” Not good for the Big Gulp crowd.
The tongs used to pull hot dogs and taquitos off the eternally turning roller grill didn’t get washed, rinsed and sanitized when in use for four hours.
Over at the coffee machine, the steam wand was “encrusted with dried-on milk residue” because it, too, had been in service too long without proper cleaning and sanitizing.
Also, the coffee machine sugar container wasn’t covered, a common violation in South Florida.
“Food employees did not wash hands after handling money at the register and before making coffees for customers,” nor did they do so “between entering and exiting the food service area to handle clean utensils and prepare food.”
But, if they did wash their hands at the handwash sink near the coffee machine, they couldn’t dry their hands — no paper towels or hand-drying blower.
“Food employees not wearing hair restraints.”
The “heavily-chipped pizza cutting wheel” next to the oven got a Stop Use order.
Clean tongs were stored by hanging them off the splash guard of the handwash sink instead of in a “clean, protected location.”
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In the hot box next to the cashier, where food needs to be kept at or above 135 degrees to prevent bacteria growth, cheese tequeños, cheese and jalapeño tequeños, guava and cheese pastelitos, cheese pastelitos and cheese cachitos measured from 114 to 125 degrees. All got hit with Stop Sales. Basura.
Over at the food service area, the hot box had boneless chicken wings, hot chicken wings, breaded chicken wings, taquitos and potato wedges that were dangerously cool, from 106 to 125 degrees. Stop Sales on all of those, too.
A retail cold unit got smacked with a Stop Use order because the unit couldn’t get at or under 41 degrees, the borderline beneath which it needed to keep food. All the items in that unit got tossed, too: seasonal fruit blend, cheese, pepperoni pizza, yogurt, egg salad sandwich, Cuban sandwich, shell eggs, bologna, tiramisu, and bacon, egg andcheese croissants.
Reaching for a bag of ice, be careful as there were “multiple open ice bags inside the freezer unit.”
This story was originally published April 19, 2026 at 11:31 AM.
