D’Iberville restaurant gets third C rating. A Subway and gas station also on the list.
Three times this year, inspectors visited the kitchen at Soc Trang Asian Restaurant, and three times the restaurant on Central Avenue in D’Iberville scored a C for critical violations.
The first C came on Jan. 22, another on Feb. 3 and again on Feb. 14 during a second follow-up inspection. On Wednesday the restaurant got a B after correcting three violations during the inspection.
All three times the restaurant scored a C, it was cited for not having a certified manager to oversee the list of health and safety procedures the inspectors check. The restaurant also was cited for sanitary and for plumbing issues.
At the first inspection, the restaurant had eight violations, two of which were corrected during the inspection.
By the Feb. 14 inspection, the restaurant had five violations — all of them repeat offenses — plus two that were corrected during the inspection.
Serena Johnson, director of the Food Protection Division at Mississippi Department of Health, told the Sun Herald there are procedures in place when a restaurant keeps failing its inspections. The health inspectors will work with new owners to help them get in compliance, she said.
Classes in food handling are offered, and restaurant owners or managers can contact MSDH’s South Region supervisor Lisa Taylor at 601-583-0291 or get a schedule of classes throughout the state by calling 601-420-4210.
Two other restaurants in South Mississippi were given a C rating during the last two weeks. They are:
Clark Shell gas station, 4600 Telephone Road, Pascagoula, was inspected Monday for a permit. The food service had no certified manager and was cited for not having its food contact-surface cleaned and sanitized. Corrected during the inspection were food separated and protected, proper reheating procedure for hot holding, and proper hot holding temperature. The last C was in 2017
Subway Sandwiches, 12116 Mississippi 63 South, Lucedale, was inspected Monday for a permit renewal. It received a C for not having food contact-surface cleaned and sanitized and for improper cold-holding temperatures, both repeat offenses. The restaurant’s last C was in 2018.
Restaurants and other food service establishments are rated A if they pass the Health Department inspection, B if violations are corrected during the inspection, and C if the violations are critical.
