Broadway Pizza Cafe (February)
4558 E. Broadway
- History: Had only “excellent” ratings since it opened in October 2013.
- What the inspector saw: Eight critical violations, including rodent feces found in the dish room and kitchen, in a Feb. 3 inspection. A cooked pizza to be cut and reheated to order throughout the day was held at 77 degrees, below the required 130 degrees for cooked food. The restaurant got a “provisional” rating.
- Follow-up: Passed Feb. 16.
- Response: “We did get a provisional, but they came back the next week and we got an excellent. The provisional was brought upon by an unknown pest problem that was actually not as bad as anyone made it sound,” said manager
- Mike Babick
- . “The very next day we had Arizona Pest Control come out and it was taken care of immediately. All of the issues they found that they put us in their provisional for were corrected the very next day.”
