{"id":407642,"date":"2026-09-22T22:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407642\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T22:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T22:32:12","slug":"over-50-rodent-droppings-at-popular-mall-food-court-restaurant-in-hialeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407642\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 50 rodent droppings at popular mall food court restaurant in Hialeah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bourbon chicken, blackened fish … and rodents and food stored in dirty containers.<\/p>\n

The first two are menu staples of the Kelly’s Cajun Grills in mall food courts around South Florida. The last two can be found on state inspections of the Kelly’s Cajun Grill<\/a> in Hialeah’s Westland Mall, which failed inspection Monday just as it did on July 20.<\/p>\n

Kelly’s got it together to pass re-inspection and reopen Tuesday with a “Follow-Up Inspection Required” notification. Monday. But the visit from the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation inspector turned up 18 total violations, including three high priority violations.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Stinky wastewater backup at IHOP among worst South Florida restaurant issues<\/a><\/p>\n

Among the findings:<\/p>\n

“Accumulation of black\/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine\/bin.”<\/p>\n

There was a “hole on wall next to the three-compartment sink.”<\/p>\n

That could be the entry for the rodents that left three poop pieces “on top of seasoning containers in the dry storage area” and dropped over 17 on the floor at the kitchen area. Another 20-plus were “under and next to the ice machine at the kitchen area” and four were “on top of the soda syrup case next to the ice machine.” Six poop pellets were next to the handwash sink.<\/p>\n

The inspector “observed food stored in soiled containers on shelves at the walk-in cooler.”<\/p>\n

Also, the “interior of the oven\/microwave has an accumulation of black substance\/grease\/food debris.”<\/p>\n

Raw, frozen chicken sat on a kitchen prep table when it should have been thawing in a refrigerator or cooler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bourbon chicken, blackened fish … and rodents and food stored in dirty containers. The first two are menu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[161907,161906,161905,225,227,226,161904],"class_list":["post-407642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-bourbon-chicken","tag-florida-department-of-business-professional-regulation","tag-food-courts","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-kellys-cajun-grill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407642","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=407642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}