EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) – Two El Paso County restaurants were temporarily shut down in a single week with health code violations ranging from employees not washing their hands, to cockroaches and ants on the floor where to-go boxes were stored.
New Panda on E. Cheyenne Mountain Boulevard temporarily closed after racking up 27 violations in its latest routine health inspection, including employees not washing their hands before touching food, then prepping food without gloves. To-go boxes were also stored on the floor, where dead cockroaches and live ants were spotted.
“[We] corrected the code, and when she came back, she was happy and let us reopen,” said an employee when we stopped by…