{"id":592,"date":"2019-02-16T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/02\/16\/2019215hamden-restaurants-in-violation-of-public-health-code\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:36:13","slug":"2019215hamden-restaurants-in-violation-of-public-health-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/02\/16\/2019215hamden-restaurants-in-violation-of-public-health-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamden restaurants in violation of public health code"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Shayla Colon<\/p>\n

In the latest Hamden restaurant inspection, the Quinnipiack Valley Health District<\/a> graded 38 establishments, including Eli\u2019s on Whitney, as less than acceptable for failing to comply with the Connecticut Public Health Code. <\/p>\n

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Among the 38 restaurants not meeting safety standards are some other Hamden favorites including: Droogie\u2019s, Mickey\u2019s restaurant and Wood-n-Tap.<\/p>\n

Eli\u2019s was docked four points for failing to keep foods at proper temperatures, not cleaning rags regularly enough and for having a \u201cfilthy\u201d vacuum for the sous vide cooking process, the New Haven Register<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

According to Eli\u2019s general manager, Shawn Reilly, anything other than an A is a failure and \u201cembarrassing.\u201d He explained that a former employee turned up the temperature of the walk-in refrigerator from the standard 41 degrees to 45 degrees causing the violation. The employee was let go the week of the incident.<\/p>\n

The Connecticut Public Health code<\/a> outlines inspection violations can include anything regarding improper sanitization, improper food temperatures, or cross-contamination.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou could have an A and have 10 different violations or get a C with just two violations, it just depends on the type of violation,\u201d Reilly said.<\/p>\n

Reilly further noted that the Eli\u2019s staff does line checks daily, but was not able to catch these issues because the sanitarian arrived beforehand. <\/p>\n

Going forward, Reilly looks to regain Eli\u2019s A status. \u201cI\u2019m not going to change anything, this is a blip. We do things properly, this is human error that should of never happened. He (the sanitarian) is coming back next week, there will be an A on the door next week,\u201d Reilly said.<\/p>\n

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They can\u2019t all be A\u2019s. Find out what Hamden restaurants are violating the Connecticut public health code. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden","category-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}