Among the reasons a pizza chain’s Fort Lauderdale location failed three inspections last week: standing water, sitting rodent dung and a stink in the air.
At least there were no roaches (with legs, at least) spotted in the Stoner’s Pizza Joint at 1509 E. Las Olas Blvd. last week. But what the state inspector listed on the inspections were enough to keep Stoner’s closed before a Friday same-day re-inspection got it back open for weekend business.
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In addition to the five flies darting about the kitchen and hallway, there was an “accumulation of dead flies on a fly sticky trap in the kitchen below the cookline handwash sink.”
An exterior storage unit with a reach-in cooler, freezer and dry storage had nine rodent droppings. Another four were in a hallway under racks with preformed pizza boxes.
The inspector smelled an “objectionable odor in the hallway with the bathroom, leading to the storage room with the three-compartment sink.”