Ho'brah A Taco Joint

• official resultScore 42
• score42 pts
• inspection typeCycle Inspection / Initial Inspection
• failed findings7
• critical findings6

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Failed findings

• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  Official wording: After cooking or removal from hot holding, TCS food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal temperature is reduced from 140 °F to 70 °F or less within 2 hours, and from 70 °F to 41 °F or less within 4 additional hours.
  code 02HCriticalstatus: Critical
• 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycritical
  Official wording: Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
  code 04ACriticalstatus: Critical
• 🔪cross-contamination riskcritical
  Official wording: Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
  code 04HCriticalstatus: 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
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Official wording: Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
  code 06DCriticalstatus: 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

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with A on February 7, 2023: Score changed by +31 points. 5 findings appeared for the first time. 2 findings 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.