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August 5: Restaurant Report

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By Heather Sullivan - bio | email

  • Critical ViolationsCritical Violations

  • Friday, May 17 2013 9:06 AM EDT2013-05-17 13:06:39 GMT
    It's one thing for a state health inspector to catch restaurant workers not washing their hands before they touch food. But in this edition of the Restaurant Report, the inspector wrote that it happened
    It's one thing for a state health inspector to catch restaurant workers not washing their hands before they touch food. But in this edition of the Restaurant Report, the inspector wrote that it happened again when he went back.

  • Thursday, May 9 2013 11:15 PM EDT2013-05-10 03:15:09 GMT
    Long before the state banned smoking in restaurants, it had already banned smoking in restaurant kitchens. That's so your food won't be contaminated by the cigarettes or smoke. When a health inspector

    Long before the state banned smoking in restaurants, it had already banned smoking in restaurant kitchens. That's so your food won't be contaminated by the cigarettes or smoke. When a health inspector wrote up a restaurant for smoking in the kitchen, we went straight over.

  • Thursday, May 2 2013 11:15 PM EDT2013-05-03 03:15:13 GMT
    No one wants to hear about rodents in a restaurant. When an inspector reported finding rodent droppings in a popular fish store and restaurant, the owners replaced the manager. Cameron's Seafood Market,

    No one wants to hear about rodents in a restaurant. When an inspector reported finding rodent droppings in a popular fish store and restaurant, the owners replaced the manager.

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By Heather Sullivan - bio | email

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - The Chesterfield Health Department has gotten tough with another restaurant, asking for an action plan to correct repeat violations.

In Chesterfield, Lung Wah at 6415 Ironbridge Road had 6 critical violations on two inspections in a row, including that an employee failed to wash their hands before engaging in food preparation. The Chesterfield Health Department says Lung Wah's owner/operator met with them and they discussed an action plan to correct the violations and operate the restaurant according to state regulations. We contacted the restaurant but did not receive comment.

In Richmond, Sandra's Soul Food at 1800 Fairmount Avenue had 6 critical violations. The inspector wrote that an employee was smoking in an area were they may contaminate food, clean equipment, utensils or other items needing protection. The manager says smoking is not allowed in that storage area. He says he closed the restaurant for two days to clean and had all critical violations corrected for a follow-up inspection a week later.

In Henrico, Bakery Art Mediterranean Cuisine at 1404 North Parham inside the Regency Square Mall had 7 critical violations. The report says raw hamburger and chicken were stored above ready-to-eat lettuce. The restaurant had them all corrected for a perfect score on the follow-up inspection two weeks later. We reached out to the restaurant, but it did not comment for our report.

This week's NBC 12 Hall of Fame Award goes to Little Caesars Pizza at 321 North Arch Road in Chesterfield after earning perfect scores on the last five out of six health inspections. Said General Manager Benjamin Campbell, "Keeping things clean is one of our top priorities. We follow several different cleaning checklists and make sure our staff our really well trained."

If you'd like to sample some of the best flavors in Shockoe Bottom, check out Sampling Shockoe next week. It's a weeklong event that gives you a three course menu for $30 at a variety of Shockoe restaurants.

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