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Imagine finding half a cockroach in the
bottom of your tomato soup while dining out or a blue press-on nail
in your side salad. Inspectors for Florida's
Division of Hotels and Restaurants aim to prevent dining horrors
like these by performing three unannounced inspections each year of
every restaurant.
The below information is contained in the DOHR
inspection reports of restaurants fined at least $1,500 during summer
2002.
Restaurant Violations 
China Super Buffet -1900 SW 13th St.
Live roach observed on wall at dish table.
Dead love bugs in sugar.
Ichiban Sushi - 4401 NW 25th Place
Cook handled raw fish then ready-to-eat food without washing hands
and changing gloves.
Pork thawed overnight at room temperature. (Sale of 3 pounds stopped.)
Ruby Tuesday - 6419 Newberry Rd.
Ice scooped with dirty, handleless container.
The following foods were stopped from being sold: 1 lb macaroni
and cheese. 3 lbs chicken. 5 lbs
cheese. 10 lbs rice. 1.5 gallons milk.
Szechuan Panda II - 2031 NW 13 St.
All four hand sinks in back area are blocked one way or another.
644 pounds of potentially hazardous food was ordered to stop being
sold, which included: 177 lbs raw chicken. 175 lbs cooked chicken.
11 lbs raw pork. 29 lbs fried pork. 119 lbs raw beef. 15 lbs egg rolls.
10 lbs rice. 10 lbs cooked rice noodles. 25 lbs duck.
-- By Polly Creedon 
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