A Springfield restaurant had live cockroaches in its bathroom at a recent inspection, according to a Springfield-Greene County Health Department inspection report. The restaurant required a reinspection due to another violation, at which point it passed with no violations.
Bubba’s BBQ, 504 N. West Bypass, had two live cockroaches in the women’s restroom, according to a Feb. 5 routine inspection. The violation that triggered the reinspection was a prep cooler with an ambient temperature of 49 degrees Fahrenheit, which had seven potentially hazardous items inside of it that needed to be thrown away. At a Feb. 9 reinspection, the restaurant had fixed the cooler and no cockroaches were seen.
Issues found during inspections fall into either priority or non-priority violations. Priority violations impact the safety of the food, such as cross-contamination between raw and ready-to-eat food, improper food temperature and poor personal hygiene and employee health. Multiple priority violations can lead to an establishment being shut down. Non-priority violations alone do not directly affect food safety, such as dirty floors, sticky tabletops or outside trash cans not being covered…