5 Tri-Cities restaurants and other food businesses fail food safety inspections

Annette Cary
·4 min read

The Benton Franklin Health District gave failing grades to five restaurants and other food businesses in the Tri-Cities during food safety inspections from Sept. 18 to 22.

The health district’s food safety team gave passing grades on 34 inspections, including awarding 17 perfect scores.

In the district’s routine inspections, businesses or organizations that receive at least 35 points for the more serious red violations are required to have additional inspections and must meet a tougher standard on those.

To pass followup inspections, they must have fewer than 25 red points and fewer than 10 red points for previous issues.

Red violations are those most likely to cause food-borne illnesses, such as improper temperature control of food, lack of handwashing or bare-hand contact with foods.

Blue violations are low risk factors related to the cleanliness and physical condition of an establishment.

No notice is given before the inspections.

Inspection results are posted online so residents can look up the status and the details of any violations of individual restaurants or check other businesses.

Go to bit.ly/BFHDinspections. Click on the business name and then on the date of the inspection on the right half of the next page. Look for the “Violations” tab.

Failed inspections

Domino’s Pizza, 4707 W. Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine Sept. 19 (40 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Food worker cards not 100%, improper hand washing, improperly disposing of potentially unsafe food.

Double Dragon, 3107 W Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Follow-up Sept. 18 (65 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: Lack of active managerial control, improper hot holding (<130°F), room temperature storage or improper use of time as a control, improper cold holding (>45°F).

Smoovies Pasco Sport Complex, 6520 Home Run Road, Pasco, Routine Sept. 22 (40 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Food worker cards not 100%, improper handwashing, inadequate handwashing facilities.

SOI 705, 705 The Parkway, Richland, Routine Sept. 21 (45 Red, 5 Blue)

Notes: Lack of active managerial control, improperly disposing of potentially unsafe food, improper cooling procedures, improper cold holding (42-45°F).

Tokyo Sushi & Teriyaki, 3617 Plaza Way, Kennewick, Follow-up Sept. 21 (60 Red, 0 Blue)

Notes: Lack of active managerial control, food worker cards not 100%, improper cooling procedures, room temperature storage or improper use of time as a control.

Passed inspections

Captain Gray Elementary School, 1102 N. 10th Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Casa Mia, 607 George Washington Way, Richland, Follow-up Sept. 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Chipotle, 3631 Plaza Way, Kennewick, Routine Sept. 21 (10 Red, 0 Blue)

Circle K, 1401 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Sept. 21 (Food service 10 Red, 0 Blue) (Store 20 Red, 5 Blue)

Dax’s Bar & Grill, 1004 Lee Blvd., Richland, Routine Sept. 18 (15 Red, 20 Blue)

Dutch Bros, 3918 Clearwater Ave., Kennewick, Routine Sept. 19 (5 Red, 0 Blue)

Ellen Ochoa Middle School, 1801 E. Sheppard St., Pasco, Routine Sept. 20 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Finley Elementary School, 213504 E. Cougar Road, Kennewick, Routine Sept. 19 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Finley Middle School, 37208 S. Finley Road, Kennewick, Routine Sept. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Flight Tap & Table, 502 Swift Blvd., Richland, Routine Sept. 19 (25 Red, 8 Blue)

Frost Me Sweet, 710 The Parkway, Richland, Routine Sept. 21 (30 Red, 0 Blue) (Additional kitchen 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Hermiston Melon Co. (Demo), Event, Follow-up Sept. 22 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Hot Tamales, Event, Routine Sept. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Isaac Stevens Middle School, 1120 N. 22nd Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 22 (0 Red, 5 Blue)

Longfellow Elementary School, 300 N. 8th Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Marie Curie STEM Elementary School, 715 N. California Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Moniker Bar, 702 The Parkway Richland, Routine Sept. 21 (5 Red, 5 Blue)

Pasco High School, 1108 N. 10th Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 21 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Richland Dugout Bar & Grill, 99 Lee Blvd., Richland, Routine Sept. 19 (30 Red, 8 Blue)

Richland Food Mart, 500 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Sept. 18 (Food service 20 Red, 0 Blue) (Store 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Richland Health Foods (Store), 1769 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Sept. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Riverview High School, 36509 S. Lemon Drive, Kennewick, Routine Sept. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Robert Frost Elementary School, 1915 N. 22nd Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 22 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Rowena Chess Elementary School, 715 N. 24th Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 22 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Sageport Grille, 1633 Columbia Park Trail, Richland, Routine Sept. 21 (Routine 20 Red, 0 Blue) (Follow-up 0 Red, 0 Blue)

Sterling’s, 890 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Sept. 22 (5 Red, 5 Blue)

Taco Bell, 3623 Plaza Way, Kennewick, Routine Sept. 21 (30 Red, 0 Blue)

Uptown Bar & Grill, 1373 George Washington Way, Richland, Routine Sept. 18 (25 Red, 0 Blue)

Virgie Robinson Elementary School, 125 S. Wehe Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 20 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Whittier Elementary School, 616 N. Wehe Ave., Pasco, Routine Sept. 19 (0 Red, 0 Blue)

Zip’s, 1123 Lee Blvd., Richland, Routine Sept. 18 (15 Red, 0 Blue)