Restaurant Inspection: Rodent Droppings Found on Restaurant's Second Failure

DULUTH, GA — A Korean restaurant in Duluth had its permit suspended Wednesday after failing its second health inspection in less than two weeks.

Seoul Restaurant, at 3585 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., earned a failing grade of 61-U on the follow-up inspection Wednesday. It had scored a 56-U during a visit on August 1.

Among a list of problems inspectors said they found Wednesday were "several rodent fecal droppings" around equipment in the kitchen.

Many of the problems found Wednesday, some of which had not been corrected from the earlier visit, were the fault of the person in charge, inspectors said.

They listed such issues as employees only washing their hands in cold water because sinks in the kitchen had no hot water, equipment being in poor repair, and the restaurant publicly displaying an old inspection report, on which it had scored an 86-B, instead of the most recent failing report.

Food that should be in cold storage was being stored at temperatures that were too warm and buckets and other containers were being stored in hand-washing sinks.

A compliance conference between health inspectors and the restaurant's owners was scheduled. Seoul Restaurant's permit will not be reinstated until state inspectors are satisfied problems addressed in the past two inspections have been corrected, according to the inspection report.