Ever wonder if your favorite restaurant properly cleans its kitchen before you come in to clean your plate?
Anyone can now easily access local restaurants’ health inspection records to check the cleanliness of their favorite eateries with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals’ recently launched food safety website.
“We are one of only a few states that offer this kind of statewide comprehensive database,” said Lisa Faust, director of media and communications for the DHH.
This year, Izzo’s Illegal Burrito, located on Burbank Drive, received one of the best inspection reports in the area surrounding campus. The establishment turned its record around and improved on previous years’ inspections. The establishment had 12 violations when inspected in 2008 and 11 violations in 2009, but improved to having just one violation this year. Click here to view DHH sanitation reports for local eateries
Michael Wallace, the restaurant’s assistant manager, attributed the restaurant’s improvement to changes in personnel and policy.
“There was a management change about a year ago,” Wallace said. “Now, we’re making more checklists and making sure we thoroughly train new employees in food “Foodborne illness is the only illness that is absolutely 100 percent preventable,” Faust said.
 
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