Miramar restaurant temporarily closes for rodents, roaches. See inspection fallout
Japanese steakhouse Blue Ginger was ordered shut on Thursday, Dec. 11, after inspectors found live rodents, roaches and several other high-priority violations.
Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspectors documented concerning conditions, with five high-priority violations among 20 infractions that were noted, forcing the restaurant at 14395 Miramar Parkway to temporarily close.
Blue Ginger met inspection standards the next day during a followup inspection and was allowed to reopen.
Inspectors observed “live rodent present,” saying it came from the back entrance door, collapsed on the floor and died.
Blue Ginger earned another high-priority violation when the manager “picked up dead rodent, went outside to dispose, came back to dishwasher area and failed to wash hands,” inspectors wrote.
The handwashing sink was not accessible for employee use at all times, and there wasn’t soap, either, according to the inspection record.
Inspectors also found live roaches in the restaurant crawling on a storage rack. Finally, many required licenses, records and documents were missing from the establishment.
Blue Ginger offers tableside Teppanyaki-style cooking. Six employees were working with food at the time of the inspection but there were “no names, no issue date for all certificates.”
Blue Ginger also had “no probe thermometer provided to measure temperature of food products.”
