This week, it’s hard to say the restaurants fell short of standards. But technically, they did. Licensing and training are big parts of the standards. They had just four violations between them. And the only violation that wasn’t related to licensing or training was for something outside the building.
Crave Hot Dogs and BBQ, 2250 Griffin Road, Lakeland: On Feb. 21, the restaurant had three violations. Its lone high-priority violation was for operating on an expired license. Its license had expired 20 days earlier, on Feb. 1. It had one intermediate violation for having no proof of required state-approved food safety training for employees. Its single basic violation was for an open dumpster lid out back.
But remember, the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation says an inspection is “a ‘snapshot’ of conditions present at the time of the inspection. … An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long-term conditions at the establishment.”