An exterminator is needed at the Sunset N Shell, a restaurant serving home cooking inside a Shell gas station on Candler Road in Decatur.
While inspecting the facility, a DeKalb County health inspector saw a roach crawling up the wall near the steam table and spotted two others crawling on the floor in the back kitchen. Management was advised to seek pest control immediately.
Points were also taken off because the manager in charge was smoking a cigarette in the back of the kitchen. Tobacco in any form is prohibited where food is being prepared, the inspector said.
Sunset N Shell, 2701 Candler Road, Decatur, scored 56/U on the routine inspection. Previous scores were 70/C and 72/C. However, no inspection report was posted for public view and points were taken off for that.
Among other code violations, raw meats were not separated from ready-to-eat foods in the coolers. A bag of raw chicken was stored on top of a bag of celery and beside cooked sweet potato juice, soup and buttermilk in one cooler. At the bottom of another cooler, several packages of pre-cooked sausages were stored with raw chicken, raw pork chops and raw bacon.
Some of the cold food items in the coolers and on a counter were above the safe temperature range and were discarded. Other prepared food items in the coolers were not date-marked for disposal. The inspector said containers of sweet potato juice, pork seasoning fat for collard greens and homemade apple pie filling all needed to be dated.
Sunset N Shell will be re-inspected.
In other news: These recently featured restaurants pulled up their health scores with follow-up inspections: Olive Garden, 1961 Jonesboro Road, McDonough, 100/A; Mei Garden, 3059 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville, 86/B.
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