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The WCPO article above discusses 25 local restaurants who were closed by the health department at some point during 2018. It also has a search engine where you can plug in your areas zip code and see any violations the restaurants around you may have had.

 

Really makes you think twice about eating out when you see some of the violations!

Of the ones listed, I guess it has to be Tokyo Dragon since that's the only one I've eaten at in the last couple of years, but its been a while.

Heavy roach infestation....Ewwww!

Welp...I'm officially done with Gramma's Pizza on 42 in Florence, Sky Galley by Lunken, and Blue Gibbon on Tennessee. In all 3 cases, if I'm being honest with myself, I probably knew what was up and was simply ignoring the obvious.

As long as none of the violations were bad enough that the place was shut down, none of this really bothers me. Precinct had 37 violations last year. Anybody think that place is gross and won't eat there anymore? Nah.

 

But for the record, I've never eaten at any of the 18 places they listed that were actually shut down temporarily.

Virtually every restaurant has had their fair share of violations over the years... The ones that actually get shut down either have blatantly obvious violations, or they just refuse to fix the issues.

As long as none of the violations were bad enough that the place was shut down, none of this really bothers me. Precinct had 37 violations last year. Anybody think that place is gross and won't eat there anymore? Nah.

 

But for the record, I've never eaten at any of the 18 places they listed that were actually shut down temporarily.

 

Actually, this article and searching some of my favorite restaurants put me in a similar mindset. I didn't consider how many restaurants would have multiple violations, and then didn't consider how many probably happen in my own kitchen (the minor ones of course).

Actually, this article and searching some of my favorite restaurants put me in a similar mindset. I didn't consider how many restaurants would have multiple violations, and then didn't consider how many probably happen in my own kitchen (the minor ones of course).

 

Some of them are not really directly health related but tangentially related to the healthy and safe preparation of food. Stuff like overhead stove lights not working or dumpster lids not being secured. That stuff happens, but only when part of a completely disheveled kitchen does it get to be a problem.