Salt & Pepper Gourmet

• official resultScore 27
• score27 pts
• inspection typePre-permit (Operational) / Compliance Inspection
• failed findings5
• critical findings4

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Failed findings

• 🔪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
• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Official wording: Food, supplies, and equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
  code 06CCriticalstatus: 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 C on January 6, 2023: Score changed by -13 points. 4 findings appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 5 previous findings did not recur.

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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.