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Mice and inadequate measures for thawing food have prompted health inspectors to temporarily close 10 Manitoba restaurants in recent months.
Winnipeg-based Lisbon Bakery, New China Kitchen, Super Taste Pizza, Giant Eatery, El Izalco Market, Pho Que Huong, Kokeb Restaurant and Summer Palace Restaurant were all shuttered for at least a day, due to public health concerns in and around their kitchens between October 2019 and January 2020.
In the latest roundup of infractions, health inspectors penalized restaurants for everything from poor dishwashing techniques to storing potentially hazardous food at unsafe temperatures, insufficient pest management strategies to failing to ensure food is correctly thawed.
Super Taste Pizza (789 Ellice Ave.) was ordered to close for four days in late November after it was found to have violated a slew of health code rules — among them, poor overall sanitation, ineffective measures to prevent entry of rodents and failure to properly clean surfaces where food is prepared.
“That was the case; I really hate to admit it,” said Ridwanul Haque, who manages the West End fast food joint, which sells pizza, chicken, fries and curry.
Haque said a mixture of poor management, an old building and lots of customers while running short on staff meant that unfortunately, the restaurant failed to meet an inspection on Nov. 25.
“But now, we have new people hired here and we also have (separate) people cleaning stuff and people handling the food. We also have people that have food-handling certificates.”
Super Taste Pizza has since hired five more staff members.
A block north, Pho Hoang Restaurant (5-794 Sargent Ave.) has been charged a total of almost $1,500 in fines in recent weeks for handling food under insanitary conditions and failure to both ensure food was correctly thawed and its dishwashing machine was sanitizing utensils properly.
Food-related offenders have been slapped with a total of almost $7,000 in fines since late October.
The highest individual fine came to $722 for West Broadway’s Bella Vista Restaurant. Last month, the restaurant was convicted of failure to register before commencing operation of a food handling establishment in early November.
Meanwhile, a dozen Manitoba swimming pools have been temporarily shuttered since Oct. 31. A handful of pools at Lakeview Hecla Resort in Gull Harbour were closed due to inadequate water circulation or quality, according to the province’s latest health protection report. The resort was fined more than $2,000.
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Closures and fines (October 2019 to January 2020)
Food service establishments closed for health violations in Winnipeg:
Lisbon Bakery (717 Sargent Ave.), Jan. 9-22, failed to take effective measures against the entry of rodents and operated food handling establishment with poor general sanitation.
New China Kitchen (446 St. Anne’s Rd.), Dec. 4-19, failed to ensure the mechanical dishwasher is capable of sanitizing all utensils and tableware.
Super Taste Pizza (789 Ellice Ave.), Nov. 25-29, operated food handling establishment with poor general sanitation, failed to take effective measures against the entry of rodents, failed to ensure food contact surface is thoroughly washed and sanitized, handled food under insanitary conditions.
Giant Eatery (594 Ellice Ave.), Nov. 6-Dec. 23, failed to take effective measures against the entry of rodents, operated a food handling establishment with poor general sanitation, failed to ensure that a food contact surface is thoroughly washed and sanitized, failed to avoid possible contamination, failed to store foods covered.
El Izalco Market (696 Sargent Ave.) Nov. 5-13, failed to take effective measures against the entry of rodents, operated a food handling establishment with poor general sanitation.
Pho Que Huong Restaurant (661 Ellice Ave.) Oct. 31-Nov. 1, failed to take effective measures against the entry of pests, operated food handling establishment with poor general sanitation.
Kokeb Restaurant and Catering (266 Edmonton St.), Oct. 30-Nov. 1, failed to take effective measures to prevent the entry and presence of insects.
Summer Palace Restaurant (1755 Pembina Hwy), Oct. 25-28. Failed to ensure mechanical dishwasher is capable of rinsing clean utensils or tableware with a solution of at least 50 ppm of available chlorine.
Closures outside Winnipeg:
Food service establishments closed for health violations in Winnipeg:
Lisbon Bakery (717 Sargent Ave.), Jan. 9-22, failed to take effective measures against the entry of rodents and operated food handling establishment with poor general sanitation.
New China Kitchen (446 St. Anne’s Rd.), Dec. 4-19, failed to ensure the mechanical dishwasher is capable of sanitizing all utensils and tableware.
Super Taste Pizza (789 Ellice Ave.), Nov. 25-29, operated food handling establishment with poor general sanitation, failed to take effective measures against the entry of rodents, failed to ensure food contact surface is thoroughly washed and sanitized, handled food under insanitary conditions.
Giant Eatery (594 Ellice Ave.), Nov. 6-Dec. 23, failed to take effective measures against the entry of rodents, operated a food handling establishment with poor general sanitation, failed to ensure that a food contact surface is thoroughly washed and sanitized, failed to avoid possible contamination, failed to store foods covered.
El Izalco Market (696 Sargent Ave.) Nov. 5-13, failed to take effective measures against the entry of rodents, operated a food handling establishment with poor general sanitation.
Pho Que Huong Restaurant (661 Ellice Ave.) Oct. 31-Nov. 1, failed to take effective measures against the entry of pests, operated food handling establishment with poor general sanitation.
Kokeb Restaurant and Catering (266 Edmonton St.), Oct. 30-Nov. 1, failed to take effective measures to prevent the entry and presence of insects.
Summer Palace Restaurant (1755 Pembina Hwy), Oct. 25-28. Failed to ensure mechanical dishwasher is capable of rinsing clean utensils or tableware with a solution of at least 50 ppm of available chlorine.
Closures outside Winnipeg:
Country Choice Farm Cafe (60-059 Hwy 236, Rosser), Dec. 18-20, failed to provide approved sinks for use in manual washing and sanitizing.
Wood Fired Pizza (2430 Victoria Ave., Brandon), Nov. 20-present, extensively remodel a food handling establishment without first registering.
Convictions and fines imposed on Winnipeg restaurants and food service establishments between late October 2019 and January 2020. Offence dates provided below:
Bella Vista Restaurant (53 Maryland St.), Nov. 7, $722 fine for failure to register before commencing operation of a food handling establishment.
Pho Hoang Restaurant (794 Sargent Ave.), Nov. 7, $486 fine for failure to ensure potentially hazardous food is correctly thawed; $672 fine for handling food in an insanitary condition and a $298 fine for failure to, when using a dishwasher, ensure that the machine is capable of sanitizing satisfactorily.
Convictions and fines outside of Winnipeg:
Kimberley Ann Garrow (1424 Lorne Ave. E, Brandon), Nov. 27, $335 fine for operating a food handling establishment without a permit.
Lee’s Buffet (201 18th St. N, Brandon), Oct. 24, $348 fine for operating a food handling establishment with poor sanitation (failure to keep facility clean); $536 fine for failure to maintain a safe internal temperature of potentially hazardous food and a $348 fine for failure to, when using a dishwasher, ensure the machine is capable of sanitizing all utilities and tableware.
Emotions N’ Tea (206 2nd Ave., Neepawa), Oct. 10, $672 fine for operating a food handling establishment without a permit.
Vego’s Kitchenette (389 2nd Ave., Neepawa) Oct. 11, $672 fine for operating a food handling establishment without a permit.
Allen Choy’s Restaurant (427 Station Rd., Shoal Lake), Oct. 8, $298 fine for storing food in an improper manner (raw meat stored above vegetables) and a $203 fine for failure to avoid contamination (cloths used for wiping food contact surfaces shall be used for no other purposes and shall be clean and stored in a sanitizing solution).
Convictions and fines for swimming pools:
Lakeview Hecla Resort (Hecla Grindstone Provincial Park, RM of Bifrost-Riverton), $672 fine for operating a pool and failure to conduct water quality tests as required; $672 fine for operating an adult hot tub with inadequate water recirculation or quality and a $672 fine for operating a pea gravel spa pool with inadequate water recirculation or quality.
Closures of swimming pools:
The Fairmont Winnipeg Whirlpool (175 Portage Ave. E), Jan. 10-present, operated a whirlpool with inadequate water quality.
Four Points by Sheraton Winnipeg South (2935 Pembina Hwy.), Jan. 6-8, operated a pool with inadequate water quality (failure to maintain adequate chlorine and Ph level) and a whirlpool with inadequate water quality (failure to maintain adequate level of combined chlorine).
Motel 6 (440 Portage Ave., Headingley), Jan. 2-6, operated a pool and whirlpool with inadequate water quality (failure to maintain adequate chlorine).
Le Chateau York (134 Smith St.), Dec. 20-Jan. 10, operated a pool with inadequate water quality (failure to maintain adequate chlorine).
Best Western Plus Pembina & Suites (1714 Pembina Hwy.), Dec. 6-24, operated a whirlpool with inadequate water quality.
Lakeview Hecla Resort (Hecla Grindstone Provincial Park, RM of Bifrost-Riverton), Nov. 27-present, operated a pool or facility where insantiary conditions exist and a pool with inadequate water recirculation or quality; Nov. 13, operated a spa pool, hot tub and cold plunge pool with inadequate water recirculation or quality.
Evergreen Towers (7 Evergreen Place.), Nov. 24-Dec. 4, operated a whirlpool with inadequate water quality.
Maggie Macintosh
Education reporter
Maggie Macintosh reports on education for the Free Press. Originally from Hamilton, Ont., she first reported for the Free Press in 2017. Read more about Maggie.
Funding for the Free Press education reporter comes from the Government of Canada through the Local Journalism Initiative.
Every piece of reporting Maggie produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
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History
Updated on Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:36 PM CST: Corrects amount of fine for Bella Vista.