Posted on 06/23/2018 8:10:21 AM PDT by texas booster
On Aug. 18, 2016, the Lakewood location of Mi Cocina, a popular upscale Tex-Mex chain, faced one particularly unhappy visitor: a Dallas health inspector.
The food safety report filed that day graded Mi Cocina at 60 points out of 100. The details weren’t pretty. Flies in the kitchen. No hot water for washing dishes. Cooked chicken sitting out at room temperature.
In summary, the report concluded, Mi Cocina “fails to meet City of Dallas Food Protection and Education sanitation standards. 10 day follow-up inspection required.”
That follow-up inspection never took place. Mi Cocina’s next health inspection came 221 days later, on March 27, 2017. The restaurant passed.
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Dallas recently launched an open data website that, for the first time, allows visitors to read each kitchen’s violations without filing public records requests. But the raw data is intimidating to new users, and it lacks an easy-to-read hub listing restaurants that are failing. So a private citizen rose to the challenge.
On a page called Dallas Health Inspection Horrors, David Lawhon maintains a table of restaurants with low scores, noting repeat offenders and marking the worst facilities with vomit and poo emojis. Lawhon is not a sanitation worker and never has been.
His project began more than a decade ago, after a series of regrettable restaurant meals and a case of food poisoning. At the time, the online Dallas inspection scores were written out in a simple list.
“The information needed to be integrated, to be presented in a more engaging and accessible way, and to answer the simpler question, ‘What businesses should I be concerned about?’ rather than, ‘What is the score for every restaurant in the city?’” Lawhon says.
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But Lawhon’s work is constrained by one big problem: The city’s data isn’t just badly presented. It’s wrong.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasobserver.com ...
But was there “Sliiiime in the Ice Machine”??
RIP Marvin Zindler, I Missed It News
If only to protect their deep pockets from lawsuits, I believe fast-food chains are probably the safest if you must eat food prepared by someone else. They have the most to lose, and probably the best system in place to police locations.
The problem is if it is a Mexican place they have immune systems geared towards protecting them from this filth; the unsuspecting American is the one that pays.
I agree but ask a famous large Mexican food chain how that worked out for them.
You don’t really need to look up the scores to figure out what they will look like.
Lowest scores are usually Indian
Then a mix of Mexican and Asian
American cafes
High end
Fast Food chains are usually the safest. McDonalds inspectors are probably better than the city ones.
I knew about that, but never considered them a “fast-food chain”. I’ve never seen one with a drive-thru, and meals cost much more than a real “fast-food” place. They also had a lot to lose, but I believe they were in the game for a much shorter time.
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