Restaurants scrub interior to bring back customers after health code violations
Step inside the double doors of one Mesa County restaurant and expect to be awed with the rendition of a lotus flower unfolding in the tile work. An expansive buffet is creatively encased in a wooden boat, and rows of tabletops are shined to a deep walnut-colored brown. Booths are separated by ornate, glass-encased, wooden, miniature snapshots of traditional Chinese life: quaint bridges, bamboo huts and blooming trees. A faux, budding cherry tree appears to grow up the side of one wall, its branches dangling above some patrons’ heads.
Despite the immaculate interior and cheerful staff who hadn’t received one complaint from customers about the food, Grand International Buffet, 2504 U.S. Highway 6&50, was cited as the county’s top food sanitation violator in 2009, with 20 critical violations.
But that was last year.
The restaurant that opened in the fall of 2008 recently received perfect scores in areas of cleanliness and food safety from the Mesa County Health Department, and its staff is not shy about advertising the changes.
Furthermore, all of the 17 restaurants that received 10 to 20 critical violations during two separate, unannounced checks by health inspectors in 2009 have made major improvements to food health and sanitation practices, according to county records and interviews with restaurant staff.
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