Pinal County Environmental Health inspected 22 establishments that offer food in Maricopa Sept. 15-Oct. 15 and found all but two were excellent. The two had similar issues – keeping food at proper temperatures – and were marked as satisfactory.
The cafeteria at Santa Cruz Elementary School had French fries in a warmer at 130 degrees F instead of the required hot-holding temperature of 135 F or above. It also had salad bar items sitting at 47 F instead of the required cold-holding temperature of 41 F or below.
The McDonald’s inside Wal-Mart had a troublesome refrigerator that held milk and orange juice at 48 F and another milk container at 50 F instead of 41 F.
Excellent [No violations found]
99 Cents Only Store
Barro’s Pizza
Crate Enterprises
CVS Pharmacy
Desert Wind Middle School
Dickey’s Barbecue Pit
Domino’s Pizza
The Duke at Rancho El Dorado
Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
Good 2 Go Store
The Green Zone Nutrition
Little Caesar’s Pizza
Maricopa Elementary School
Maricopa Head Start
McDonald’s (Maricopa-Casa Grande Hwy.)
Papa John’s Pizza
Papa Murphy’s Pizza
Sequoia Pathway Academy
Shamrock Farms
Satisfactory [Violations corrected during inspection]
Santa Cruz Elementary
McDonald’s (Wal-Mart)
Needs Improvement [Critical item noted during inspection cannot be corrected immediately, requiring follow-up inspection]
None
Unacceptable [Gross, unsanitary conditions necessitating the discontinuation of operation]
None
This business brief appears in the November issue of InMaricopa.
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