Here\u2019s some of what state inspectors Amber Ruckdeschel and Luis Lopez found on Tuesday:<\/p>\n
\u201cAnts crawling on the exterior of the bakery case holding doughnuts and cookies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201ctongs used for self-service roller grill items (hot dogs and taquitos) and the retail hot holding items (taquenos, pan bono, cachitos) were not washed, rinsed, and sanitized after more than four hours of use.\u201d<\/p>\n
They\u2019d need to pick up a test kit because there wasn\u2019t one to measure the sanitizer concentration at the ware washing sink.<\/p>\n
Speaking of washing, some of the employees didn\u2019t wash their hands before prepping chicken wings for customers or when entering the food-service area before handling clean utensils and preparing food.<\/p>\n
The backroom handwash sink didn\u2019t have a paper towel of mechanical hand dryer.<\/p>\n
Some food employees were \u201cnot wearing hair or beard restraints while heating up chicken wings and potato tots for customers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under the Slurpee and soda machines, the inspectors saw a \u201cheavy accumulation of liquid residue on the bottom shelves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wet wiping cloths sitting next to a handwash sink needed to be in a bucket of sanitizer solution when not being used to wipe.<\/p>\n
The cod fish croquetas, beef pastelitos, and guava and cheese pastelitos in the hot box all measured at least 10 degrees under the required 135 degrees for safe hot storage. Each got hit with a stop sale and thrown in the garbage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe wooden knock board used to knock out coffee grounds was found stored directly in the trash can where all trash is discarded, not just used coffee.\u201d Also, someone threw out used coffee grounds by \u201ctapping into the knock board located inside the trashcan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yes, these standard acts you typically find at Miami and Pembroke Pines cafe cubano stations are violations.<\/p>\n
7-Eleven, 4501 NW Seventh St., Miami DAVID J. NEAL dneal@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n
This story was originally published June 8, 2026 at 11:32 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State inspectors didn\u2019t find a Big Gulp of violations at a Miami 7-Eleven last week, but found enough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-300067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}