La Ternura

• official resultScore 19
• score19 pts
• inspection typeCycle Inspection / Initial Inspection
• failed findings4
• critical findings2

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Failed findings

• 🐛pest / contamination issuecritical
  Official wording: Appropriately scaled metal stem-type thermometer or thermocouple not provided or used to evaluate temperatures of potentially hazardous foods during cooking, cooling, reheating and holding.
  code 04JCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Official wording: Live roaches present in facility's food and/or non-food areas.
  code 04MCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Official wording: Facility not vermin proof. Harborage or conditions conducive to attracting vermin to the premises and/or allowing vermin to exist.
  code 08Astatus: Not Critical
• 🛠️facility / equipment issue
  Official wording: Hand wash sign not posted
  code 10Jstatus: Not Critical

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with B on October 24, 2017: Score changed by -5 points. 3 findings appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 3 previous findings 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.