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Brighton taco place that re-opened after salmonella outbreak is shut again over new kitchen health violations
By adamg on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 9:09am
Los Amigos, 366 Washington St. in Brighton Center is shut again, this time over a variety of problems a health inspector found on June 23 - just two weeks after it was cleared to re-open following its salmonella outbreak in May.
This time, an inspector found cooked chicken, peppers and onions being stored at lower than safe temperatures, guacamole, pico sauce and corn salsa being stored at higher than allowed temperatures and workers "rinsing clean pans and placing on drying rack without sanitizing." Also, bags of shrimp were being stored with fish fillets - a potential source of cross-contamination should one of the items be bad.
All of these were closable violations - as was the simple fact that the restaurant was already on a short leash due to the salmonella outbreak - some victims of which have sued over.
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Sounds like the health
Sounds like the health inspector played a trick on them. Why inspect only two weeks after they were cleared?
Yeah, the nerve!
Re-inspecting a place that was implicated a month ago in several dozen salmonella cases?!?
"A trick"?
Doing their jobs is playing a trick? You must be one of those government-haters.
At a wild guess, I bet they
At a wild guess, I bet they thought they might find something along the lines of cooked chicken, peppers and onions being stored at lower than safe temperatures, guacamole, pico sauce and corn salsa being stored at higher than allowed temperatures and workers rinsing clean pans and placing on drying rack without sanitizing. Ta-da!
Uh
Okay.
I can see that you have zero idea how inspections work.
To see if they've been keeping up with the inspections
No trick here. I would not like to purchase food from a restaurant and get food poisoning.
Huh?
This is not a new realization but you are not a serious person.
The restaurant was closed for serious health code violations that can promote a foodborne illness outbreak, after likely being responsible for an outbreak of foodborne illness and then 2 weeks after proving they could operate a safe and compliant restaurant, they have already fallen back on the same operational deficiencies that can promote another outbreak.
And the thought that you had to post here was that a health inspector was wrong to return so soon after they were allowed to reopen after they very clearly needed to be shutdown before they harmed any more customers?
Why inspect only 2 weeks after? Perhaps it's not the first time a restaurant operator has made everything look nice and pretty when they know they are in trouble and will be getting a very thorough health inspection but as soon as they think they are in the clear they return to completely unsafe food handling practices.
Foodborne illness can kill people or result in chronic medical conditions, in addition to the temporary, acute illness people tend to think of when they hear "food poisoning." It's not overly difficult to run a safe commercial kitchen, but you do have to do it by the book, all the time, or you risk hurting the customers that put money in your pocket.
other locations
They also have restaurants in Brookline, Newton, Somerville, and W. Roxbury...
Magoo sez
Ewwwwww this is so yucky icky but Magoo luvs luvs luvs Magoo a good taco muy bueno. Magoo.
Then who cares if they shut this place down for Magood
Go down the street to Teresa's Market. Way better food.
I'm missing something... What
I'm missing something... What's wrong with rinsing clean pans and putting them on a drying rack?
Commercial kitchens typically
Commercial kitchens typically have a multi-sink dish washing station with various soap and sanitizer pumps that culminates with the dishes going into a large machine. It sounds like they were skipping these steps and just spraying pans until they were free of food debris.
In your home?
Nothing wrong with it.
In a commercial kitchen? They are required to be sanitized.
Wash, Rinse, Sanitize, Air Dry
The 4 steps to ensure safe, clean cookware in a commercial setting.
Los Amigos are no amigos of their patrons
They should be barred from opening any food or beverage businesses in Massachusetts.