Stanislaus County health inspectors received a complaint of a dog in the kitchen of a Modesto Mexican restaurant and of two men sleeping overnight in the storeroom of a seafood restaurant in the last two weeks of September.
A rodent infestation at a Modesto bar and at an Empire gas station, and cockroaches at a Chinese restaurant were among major violations observed during inspections conducted those weeks.
The majority of the 2,400 permitted food service establishments in the county receive two unannounced routine food safety inspections per year, according to the Department of Environmental Resources . The website says inspection reports are scanned weekly.
Food trucks that operate under a Stanislaus County Health Department permit also are inspected by the county, though those are scheduled and done at the department’s office.
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Of the 125 restaurant inspection reports sent to The Modesto Bee on Tuesday, 14 were not updated on the site as of Wednesday afternoon.