Big Daddy's Caribbean Taste

• official resultClosed by the city
• score135 pts
• inspection typeCycle Inspection / Initial Inspection
• failed findings12
• critical findings9

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Failed findings

• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Official wording: Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
  code 02BCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcritical
  Official wording: Cold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.
  code 02GCriticalstatus: Critical
• ❓questionable food sourcingcritical
  Official wording: Juice packaged on premises with no or incomplete label, no warning statement
  code 03ICriticalstatus: Critical
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Official wording: Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
  code 04MCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Official wording: Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
  code 04NCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🐈random live animals insidecritical
  Official wording: Live animal other than fish in tank or service animal present in facility’s food or non-food area.
  code 04OCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🚰facility hygiene issuecritical
  Official wording: Insufficient or no hot holding, cold storage or cold holding equipment provided to maintain Time/Temperature Control for Safety Foods (TCS) at required temperatures
  code 05FCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🚰facility hygiene issuecritical
  Official wording: No approved written standard operating procedure for avoiding contamination by refillable returnable containers.
  code 05HCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🧻grimy wiping clothscritical
  Official wording: Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.
  code 06FCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Official wording: Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
  code 08Astatus: Not Critical
• 🗑️garbage situation out of pocket
  Official wording: Pesticide not properly labeled or used by unlicensed individual. Pesticide, other toxic chemical improperly used/stored. Unprotected, unlocked bait station used.
  code 08Cstatus: Not Critical
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Official wording: Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
  code 10Fstatus: Not Critical

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with A on May 22, 2024: Score changed by +122 points. 11 findings appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 1 previous finding did not recur.

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About this record

This record comes from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: NYC Open Data.