Iowa Restaurant Cited After Roach Found In Noodles

Did you order extra protein with your noodles?

In late February, Iowa restaurant inspectors went around to restaurants across the state to make sure everything was running in tip-top shape: the food being stored at the healthiest temperatures, the kitchen is clean, and there's nothing unsanitary about it.

Iowa Department of Inspection, Appeals, and Licensing didn't find that in every restaurant.

The Basic Problems

Several QCA restaurants, including Davenport's Granite City, Sushi Way, Kobe Sushi & Hibachi, Golden Corral, Sam's Food, and Bettendorf's Plus Saporis Mediterranean Latin Cuisine faced citations for things like food storage temperatures or unsanitary conditions the food was stored in.

But one restaurant in Earlville had a unique issue.

Creepy, Crawly Protein

A food inspector's visit to Quick 'n Handy in Earlville found several issues, including fish and cockroaches in weird situations. The report says:

Fish was observed thawing in standing water near the three-compartment sink ... A dead cockroach was observed inside a rice noodle container.

The inspector said the person in charge of the place didn't "did not adequately demonstrate knowledge of basic food-safety principles". Fried shrimp, pizza, mashed potatoes, and chicken tenders had to be thrown out, as they were all in a hot storage space that wasn't actually hot enough.

The Earlville finding was hardly the only restaurant citation from visits happening between January 10th-February 28th. Kobe Sushi & Hibachi in Davenport got 12 risk-factor violations, which is an unusually high number.

Restaurants in Sioux City, Marion, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, Fairfield, Harper's Ferry, Cedar Falls, North Liberty, Pella, Wapello, and Osceola were cited.