{"id":8543,"date":"2022-02-25T01:01:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci029a998a800024ff"},"modified":"2022-02-25T01:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T01:01:29","slug":"chilis-restaurant-had-roaches-in-kitchen-gets-73-50-c-health-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2022\/02\/25\/chilis-restaurant-had-roaches-in-kitchen-gets-73-50-c-health-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"CHILI&#8217;S RESTAURANT HAD ROACHES IN KITCHEN, GETS 73.50 C HEALTH GRADE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a serious lack of oversight throughout the kitchen at Chili&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill located at 2521 Sardis Rd. Charlotte, NC according to a recent health safety inspection on February 23, 2022. Chili&#8217;s scored a whopping 73.50 C on the inspection. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/news\/chilis-gets-84-50-b-food-safety-score-phone-charger-found-in-lettuce\">And this is not the first time Chili&#8217;s has performed poorly in health inspections.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/red-chili-pepper-6769603_960_720-1.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>So first lets talk about the roaches that were found in Chili&#8217;s during the inspection. Several roaches were seen by the inspector inside of Chili&#8217;s, and most of the roaches were found in the kitchen by the conveyor grill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was improper hot and cold holding temperatures along with improper date marking. Food safety practices have not been well communicated to the Chili&#8217;s staff, the inspector noted.<\/p>\n<p>An employee drink was stored on the cutting board at the cook line. Also, there was no soap dispensing at the hand sink.<\/p>\n<p>A cutting board was stored as clean, but had food debris present. A scoop was stored as clean but had dried food debris on it.<\/p>\n<p>Ribs were cold holding at unsafe temperatures of 47F and had to be discarded. Food is required to be chilled at 41F or lower.<\/p>\n<p>The inspector observed significant food debris present inside of all the cold reach-in units. There was also a sticky buildup on the outside of equipment on the cook line. It was also noted that an encrusted grease was present on the outside of the grill. Chili&#8217;s is in need of a deep cleaning, according to the inspection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;The inspector saw an employee jacket stored above the margarita machine at the bar area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/news\/chili-s-grill-bar-gets-disgusting-86-50-b-health-score-was-temporarily-closed\">A Chili&#8217;s had to temporally shutdown due to a bad health score.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/news\/chilis-earns-78-c-on-food-inspection-employees-touched-masks-without-washing-hands-during-pandemic\">Chili&#8217;s scored an 78 C due to employees touching masks and not washing their hands.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/news\/chilis-gets-88-50-b-on-inspection-score-lack-of-oversight\">Lack of oversight forced a Chili&#8217;s to get an 88.50 B grade during an inspection.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again Chili&#8217;s did bad on a inspection, this time they had roaches in the restaurant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[894,655,598,356,358,422,423,397,654,401,421,398,650,400,388,355,359],"class_list":["post-8543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chilis","tag-clean-food","tag-dirty-food","tag-dirty-restaurants","tag-food","tag-food-contamination","tag-food-health","tag-food-inspections","tag-food-safety","tag-health","tag-health-and-safety","tag-insects-in-restaurants","tag-kitchen","tag-public-health","tag-restaurant-inspections","tag-restaurant-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543","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=8543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}