{"id":7818,"date":"2022-06-17T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02a3fad5b0002504"},"modified":"2025-02-26T01:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:03:50","slug":"cook-out-gets-87-50-b-on-food-health-inspection-insects-in-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/06\/17\/cook-out-gets-87-50-b-on-food-health-inspection-insects-in-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"COOK OUT GETS 87.50 B ON FOOD HEALTH INSPECTION, INSECTS IN KITCHEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cook Out restaurant located at 4321 Sunset Road Charlotte, NC scored an<\/p>\n<p>87.50 B during a June 17, 2022 health safety inspection.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/c_fit,h_600,w_600\/MTkwMjcxNjg2Mjg3ODI4Mzcy\/3-trukkll-blu.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>2 employees washed their hands and then turned off the faucet with their bare hands. A napkin or barrier is suppose to be used to turn off faucets when washing hands. Some restaurants have foot pedal activated faucets that are hands free.<\/p>\n<p>Another Cook Out employee was seen making bare hand contact with lettuce; the health inspector stopped the employee and demanded that the lettuce be discarded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/robbery\/video-cook-out-restaurant-robbed-by-2-men-thousands-in-cash-taken\">Watch video of a robbery at a Cook Out in Charlotte<\/a><\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/239395058_4312198205538901_763530806927043400_n.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>There were unwashed tomatoes over washed pickles.<\/p>\n<p>Cheese was being held at an unsafe temperature of 44F. The ground beef in the cold drawer was being held at an unsafe temperature of 48F.<\/p>\n<p>The cheesecake had to be thrown away due to being held at an unsafe temperature of 56F.<\/p>\n<p>During the inspection, several flies were observed in the kitchen area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/news\/cook-out-restaurant-gets-88-b-during-food-inspection-cole-slaw-at-unsafe-temperature\">Cook Out employees were bringing food from home and cooking them on the restaurant grills at the Albemarle Road location.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 3-comp sink was overflowing and it overflowed 3 times during the inspection. Cook Out can control the flow but the employees were not watching the sink and it was causing back splash issues.<\/p>\n<p>Tile and grout were broken throughout the kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A west Charlotte Cook Out location had out of temperature cheesecake and ground beef<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[655,614,38,653,358,422,423,397,654,401,421,714,398,650,400,388,355,359,716,321,130],"class_list":["post-7818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-clean-food","tag-cookout","tag-employee","tag-fast-food","tag-food","tag-food-contamination","tag-food-health","tag-food-inspections","tag-food-safety","tag-health","tag-health-and-safety","tag-hot-temperatures","tag-insects-in-restaurants","tag-kitchen","tag-public-health","tag-restaurant-inspections","tag-restaurant-news","tag-restaurants","tag-temperatures","tag-waters","tag-west-charlotte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17700,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7818\/revisions\/17700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}