{"id":297147,"date":"2026-09-30T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297147\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:16:15","slug":"pittsburgh-restaurant-apologizes-after-roach-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297147\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh restaurant apologizes after roach infestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local hibachi restaurant in the Pittsburgh area is taking responsibility and promising to do better after a Consumer Alert was issued earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Saga Hibachi Steakhouse &amp; Sushi Bar in Monroeville Mall was under alert from September 17-25 after health violations were found, including a cockroach infestation.<\/p>\n<p>A follow-up inspection showed Saga had resolved the pest issue and was awarded the green \u201cInspected &amp; Permitted\u201d by the Allegheny County Health Department.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent statement, posted on Facebook, Saga says, We owe you a sincere apology \u2014 this falls far short of the standards we set for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through an investigation, Saga says the roaches had migrated from a different part of the mall, including the food court that sits below them.<\/p>\n<p>Saga released its plan moving forward:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Full deep-clean and professional extermination of the entire restaurant, completed<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Passed the health department&#8217;s re-inspection on September 24 (see photo)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Professional pest control treatments every two weeks, on a fixed schedule<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Thorough cleaning and sanitation every single day<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know trust is earned through actions, not words. We invite you to come see the difference for yourself,\u201d said Saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local hibachi restaurant in the Pittsburgh area is taking responsibility and promising to do better after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[105888,122759,27461,73,75,74,122758],"class_list":["post-297147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-apology","tag-cockroaches","tag-monroeville-mall","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-saga-hibachi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}