Health inspectors serve up two Toronto restaurants with 10 infractions each

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Two restaurants in Toronto were each hit with 10 infractions by city health inspectors.

Roses New York, located at 115 Fort York Blvd., received nine significant violations and one minor one following an inspection on Wednesday.

Roses, which serves up everything from burgers and sandwiches to pizza and kebabs, was given a conditional pass notice and remains open for business, according to Toronto Public Health.

Much of the nine significant infractions pertained to the restaurant’s equipment including its hand-washing stations, which were not conveniently accessible by food handlers and not maintained with soap and paper towels.

Roses failed to provide the required equipment for cleaning and sanitizing utensils, while its mechanical equipment was neither maintained to provide a sufficient chemical solution rinse nor maintained to provide clean wash water.

The establishment was also using equipment not suitable for the intended purpose and the food equipment it was using was not in good repair.

It also failed to keep the “sanitary facility sanitary,” and also did not keep a toxic substance in a compartment that was separate from the food.

Roses’ lone minor violation was that its food-handling room was not maintained in a sanitary condition.

The second establishment to get dinged with 10 violations was Foodrama, a fast-food Middle Eastern restaurant and market.

It has two locations but it’s the 230 Queen St. W. storefront that received the conditional pass notice on Wednesday, and remains open, Toronto Public Health stated.

Its one crucial infraction was not maintaining potentially hazardous foods at internal temperatures between 4C and 60C.

Half of the six significant violations it received involved the hand-washing stations (failing to maintain with soap and paper towels, not having hot and cold water available and the stations being used for something other than where employees are to wash their hands).

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Foodrama also failed to provide a thermometer in the refrigeration equipment, did not equip the sanitary facility with towels or a dryer, and there was no hot and cold running water in the utensil washing space.

As for its two minor infractions, the eatery failed to protect against the entry of pests and did not have the required illumination during all hours of operation.

The one “other” violation was failing to ensure a food handler or supervisor was present during all hours of operation.

A detailed list of infractions at Toronto restaurants can be found on DineSafe.