{"id":301482,"date":"2026-06-09T16:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301482\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:38:08","slug":"rodents-shut-down-coffee-at-fort-lauderdale-area-minimart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301482\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodents shut down coffee at Fort Lauderdale area minimart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodent poop and a dead rodent caused new food delivery to be cut at a Coral Springs convenience store last week, three weeks after inspectors shut down the coffee and soda stations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf evidence of pest infestation is observed on the next scheduled inspection, a Stop Sale Order of all foods<\/a> will be issued,\u201d said Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services inspector Timothy O\u2019Neil in Wednesday\u2019s inspection of the Citgo Food Mart, 10380 Royal Palm Rd.<\/p>\n

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According to Wednesday\u2019s inspection, the warnings of a May 14 inspection weren\u2019t heeded at the station owned by Stores Management, LLC,<\/a> whose officers are Alloudin Bhullar and Nawshad Chowdhury.<\/p>\n

In May, Inspector O\u2019Neil saw \u201cfresh rodent droppings (more than 100) found under the frozen soda machine, under the soda machine, and under the coffee bar\u201d as well as in the \u201cprocessing room, on the floors, along walls, under the three-compartment sink and throughout the room.\u201d<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill also saw pieces of rodent regularity \u201cin cabinets under the coffee bar, next to the single use lids\u201d and, in the backroom, \u201cin boxes of single use cups on a shelf, near the ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Miami restaurant\u2019s different name, same game \u2014 rodents and moldy food<\/a><\/p>\n

Stop Use Orders were dropped on open food processing, the hot foods case, the hot food rollers, the three-compartment sink, frozen soda dispenser, coffee bar, soda machine and cold coffee machine. Also, the inspection included this warning:<\/p>\n

\u201cIf evidence of pest infestation is observed on the next inspection<\/a>, a Stop Use Order will be issued on all receiving areas of the establishment and the establishment will no longer be allowed to receive additional food items…\u201d<\/p>\n

And, so it was Wednesday, after O\u2019Neill saw a \u201cdead rodent in a trap under the three-compartment sink in the backroom\u201d and \u201cfresh rodent droppings count in cabinets under various fountain drink dispensers and the coffee bar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The The Citgo Food Mart at 10380 Royal Palm Blvd. in Coral Springs failed its June 3 inspection and will not be able to serve food or drinks until its pest problem is resolved. Allison Beck abeck@coralspringsflnews.com <\/p>\n


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David J. Neal<\/a><\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/p>\n

Since 1989, David J. Neal\u2019s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rodent poop and a dead rodent caused new food delivery to be cut at a Coral Springs convenience…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-301482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301482","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=301482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}