Grecian Garden in mall told to clean up its act
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Grecian Garden, a long-standing restaurant in the Shops of Grand Avenue mall food court, was cited for eight critical health violations last week, making it one of the city's most-cited food establishments in the past month.
A city health inspector visited the restaurant, inside the downtown mall at 275 W. Wisconsin Ave., and found mold on vegetables in the walk-in cooler. The inspector also observed Grecian Garden owner Koula Haltoupi fail to wash her hands before putting pita bread down on the grill and serving food.
A critical violation is one that is serious enough to increase a patron's risk of getting sick from a food-borne illness.
The inspection also notes that storage shelves there "are dusty, soiled and sticky . . . all the shelves and plastic shelf liners in the walk-in cooler are soiled."
And the inspector found that much of the restaurant's shelf space was occupied by foods the owner claimed were for personal use, such as tangerines, homemade pickles and unlabeled frozen fish. None of those items is on the menu, the inspection shows.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Source: New York Times
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