Behind The Kitchen Door: Perfect restaurant inspection scores at the end of June

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Posted: 08/02/2012

By: Wendy Ryan

Ice cream and yogurt shops along with fast food places like McDonalds and Subway were among the handful of eateries to get perfect grades with the Division of Hotels and Restaurants recently.

In the last week of June, state inspectors found nine restaurants around the bay area with no violations.
That includes two restaurants each in Hillsborough, Manatee, Polk, Sarasota and one eatery in Orange County.

The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) through the Division of Hotels and Restaurants inspects restaurants throughout the state. Each week, abcactionnews.com analyzes the latest list of restaurant inspections to identify those that received zero-violations, thus obtaining the perfect score. Abcactionnews.com's analysis is based on information posted on DBPR's Website.

State inspectors can return for multiple visits stemming from one inspection until problems are corrected. The lists below include seated and non-seated restaurants that received "zero" violations on the first visit of an inspection. This list does not include restaurants that have received zero violations after multiple visits for the same inspection. Each inspection report is a "snapshot" of conditions present at the time of the inspection.

The list includes restaurants in Citrus, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Manatee, Orange, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sumter and Sarasota counties. These restaurants all earned a perfect score during inspections the week of June 29, 2012.

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