Health inspections play an extremely important role in maintaining food safety standards across restaurants. After being inspected and finding severe sanitation violations, ranging from pest infestations to improper food handling, these restaurants are ordered to remain closed until re-inspection.
Highlights:
- Recently two prominent San Francisco restaurants were ordered to shut down due to severe health code violations.
- Issues ranged from rodent and insect infestations to food contamination and improper sanitization.
- Reopening these restaurants is subject to follow-up inspections to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
Restaurants in San Francisco Faced with Permit Suspension
The restaurants were noted with severe health code violations such as pest infestation, hygiene issues, lack of sanitation, and more. The details of these violations are mentioned below.
Pork Store Cafe Valencia
Pork Store Cafe had its permit suspended until re-inspection. (Source – Google Reviews)
Located at 3122 16th St., San Francisco, Pork Store Cafe – Valencia was closed after health inspectors discovered a serious cockroach infestation. Reports showed both live and dead cockroaches behind kitchen equipment, shelving units, and near the grease trap.
Further inspection revealed unsanitary food contact surfaces and a high risk of contamination due to improper food handling procedures. Lack of proper sanitization for surfaces that come into contact with food and risk of contamination due to improper food storage methods. The entire analysis of the inspection can be seen here.
Remedial Actions and Follow-up Inspection
The restaurant has been instructed to eliminate the cockroach infestation immediately, conduct deep cleaning, and also ensure strict sanitation protocols. Health officials will conduct a follow-up inspection soon to determine if these conditions have been met before the restaurant can resume its operations.
Base Camp Nepal
Health inspectors inspected the restaurant and noted food code violations. (Source – Google Reviews)
Base Camp Nepal, located at 2400 Folsom St., San Francisco, was forced to close down due to serious pest control issues. Health officials found many live cockroaches inside kitchen equipment, rat droppings on the premises, and dead flies contaminating food storage spaces.
Inspectors also reported a missing handwashing station near the cook line, creating more food safety concerns. Dead flies were found in food storage locations.
The Closure placard was placed in front of the restaurant, and it has been instructed not to be removed, moved, blocked, or obstructed in any manner. The entire inspection is here.
Remedial Actions and Follow-up Inspection
The health authorities have ordered the restaurant to hire licensed pest control professionals, to sanitize all food contact areas, and submit documentation proving pest eradication efforts.
The Closure placard will be removed by an inspector from the Health Department upon re-inspecting.
The restaurants will work toward resolving these issues and the status of these places will be updated upon re-inspection by the health authorities. The restaurants will be able to serve further if they rectify all the violations.
[Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct amount of restaurants that failed to pass their health inspections.]
