HOUSTON – We hear it all the time and food-safety experts will tell you it’s a must-do precaution to keep customers safe.
When you are handling ready to eat food, you have to wear protective gloves to avoid making people ill.
But at the D & J Burger Bar on Ley Road, health officials found “food not safe for human consumption” after they observed an employee without gloves handling fresh-cut tomatoes and fresh-cut lettuce.
File: D & J Burger Bar Restaurant Report
Next up, we travel to the Honey Bee Teahouse at 9715 Bellaire, where inspectors found cockroaches sitting inside a box on a table. And it wasn’t just any table, it was -- according to inspectors, the food-preparation table.
The order was given to eliminate all cockroaches through professional pest control.
File: Honey Bee Teahouse Restaurant Report
Moving on to Sabor A Mi Pueblo in the 4000 block of Hollister, where restaurant inspectors discovered live cockroaches in several places.
They reported finding cockroaches inside one of the reach-in coolers, a cockroach inside the microwave oven and a cockroach walking across the wall.
We talked to the manager of that restaurant to see what was being done to get rid of the insects; she told us politely that a professional extermination company is coming in Friday.
Up next, it’s JR’s Bar-B-Q on McCarty Street where inspectors wrote the place up after finding food not safe for human consumption.
File: JR's Bar-B-Q Restaurant Report
We’re talking about beef brisket, chicken and lettuce, all found stored at dangerous temperatures above 41 degrees.
The problem? The cooler was not working properly.
That cooler was ordered quarantined until repaired.
And we wrap up this week’s report at Tacos and Tortas Las Tres Vallejo on Federal Road, where inspectors found slime in the ice machine.
File: Tacos & Tortas Las Tres Vallejo Restaurant Report
You can always search The Restaurant Report Card database right here on our website.
Click on the area of the page where it says Booo Yaaaah and search out your favorite restaurants to see if they have been in trouble with the Houston Health Department.
