Wichita inspections: No hot water, bathroom out of toilet paper, rodent droppings
Six businesses, including gas stations, a motel, an elementary school, a party store and an Asian restaurant, failed their Kansas Department of Agriculture food and lodging safety inspections from April 3-9, a check of inspection results for Sedgwick County shows.
Information about the businesses and violations, compiled April 15, appears below with a summary of the problems inspectors noted on their reports. More details, including specific violation descriptions and survey dates, are posted in The Eagle’s searchable database of non-compliant restaurant and hotel inspections at www.kansas.com/databases.
More than 40 businesses surveyed during the same time period passed their inspections with few or no violations. You can see those at www.foodsafety.kda.ks.gov/FoodSafety/Web/Inspection/PublicInspectionSearch.aspx.
Failing an inspection doesn’t necessarily mean a business has to close; that’s rare. Most violations are minor and are immediately corrected on site.
Businesses fall out of compliance with state rules when they have too many violations or certain types of problems that can increase the risk of a customer contracting a food-borne illness or when a problem can’t be fixed right away, such as plumbing issues and pest infestations.
When a business fails, it’s usually inspected again within 10 days.
To complain about conditions anywhere that serves or sells food to the public, email kda.fsl@ks.gov or call 785-564-6767.
Recent out-of-compliance inspections:
Corner Market, 3311 N. Rock Road in Wichita — Two violations on April 5 for not having hot water at the hand-washing sinks in the men’s and women’s bathrooms, no toilet paper in men’s bathroom. Next inspection: April 15.
Haysville Express Inn, 301 E. 71st St. South in Haysville — One food safety violation on April 5 for not having a working probe-style food thermometer in the building. The hotel also received a lodging violation on the same date because it didn’t have a hand-washing sink installed in the laundry room for employees. Next inspection: June 22.
Maize Central Elementary School, 304 W. Academy in Maize — One violation on April 5 for not sanitizing dishes properly. Next inspection: April 15.
Party City, 3411 N. Rock Road in Wichita — One violation on April 5 for not having hot water at hand-washing sinks in men’s and women’s bathrooms. Next inspection: April 15.
Quick Pick, 3733 N. Arkansas in Wichita — Two violations on April 7 for rodent droppings around shelf for damaged soda including some droppings inside a soda package, rodent droppings on shelf in the backroom and on floors throughout the business. Next inspection: July 7.
Rice & Roll by Xing Xing, 1920 E. Pawnee in Wichita — Four violations on April 5. They include storing egg roll filling that contained raw pork above an uncovered bucket of sliced cabbage and bags of raw pork above whole cabbage and cooked shrimp balls in cooler, raw chicken stored above bucket of sweet-and-sour sauce in cooler, storing bean sprouts and par-cooked rice at room temperature instead of refrigerating. Next inspection: April 15.
This story was originally published April 18, 2022 at 4:38 AM.
