Pfizer Cafe

• official resultScore 26
• score26 pts
• inspection typePre-permit (Operational) / Initial Inspection
• failed findings7
• critical findings2

← Back to the current restaurant page

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
• 🪰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
• 🕳️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
• 🕳️conditions that attract pests
  Official wording: Garbage receptacle not pest or water resistant, with tight-fitting lids, and covered except while in active use. Garbage receptacle and cover not cleaned after emptying and prior to reuse. Garbage, refuse and other solid and liquid waste not collected, stored, removed and disposed of so as to prevent a nuisance.
  code 08Bstatus: Not Critical
• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Official wording: Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
  code 09Cstatus: Not Critical
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Official wording: Anti-siphonage or back-flow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly. Condensation or liquid waste improperly disposed of.
  code 10Bstatus: Not Critical
• 🛠️facility / equipment issue
  Official wording: Accurate thermometer not provided or properly located in refrigerated, cold storage or hot holding equipment
  code 10Estatus: Not Critical

Browse this restaurant's inspections

More restaurants in Hudson Yards-Chelsea-Flat Iron-Union Square

• A Upside Pizza
  clean · 555 6 Avenue · inspected October 8, 2025
• ⏳ Barlume
  cooked · 900 Broadway · inspected May 12, 2026
• ? Crispy Chick
  not rated · 20 Union Square West
• ? Choclate On Tap
  not rated · 20 Union Square West
• ? So Sarap
  not rated · 20 Union Square West
• A Clemente Bar
  clean · 11 Madison Avenue · inspected December 3, 2025

See every restaurant in Hudson Yards-Chelsea-Flat Iron-Union Square →

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.