East Cobb food scores: Goldbergs Bagel gets a failing score

Goldberg’s Bagel, East Cobb food scores

Goldbergs Bagel Co. & Deli got a failing score from Cobb & Douglas Department of Public Health inspectors on Thursday after they cited the eatery at 1062 Johnson Ferry Road for several health code violations.

Goldbergs received a score of 65, which is unsatisfactory, and a notation of “U” is indicated in the full inspection report (you can read it here).

The violations included improper holding temperatures for food.

Specifically, partially-cooked chicken tenders were being held well above the holding temperature limit of 41 degrees fahrenheit.

What are called “TCS” foods—such as meats, produce and dairy products—also have temperature guidelines. Goldbergs was found to have held chicken and matzo soup below the 135-degree minimum for hot soups.

The eatery also did not properly label the discard dates for ready-to-eat TCS foods, including cream cheese in a walk-in cooler, open packages of deli meat and containers of rice, a repeat violation.

An employee handling trash also was found to have not washed hands before returning to the dish area.

Inspectors noted that all the above violations were corrected on-site.

Another repeat violation indicated in the report was the lack of a test kit for a high-temperature sanitizing machine for ware washing equipment.

When Cobb restaurants get failing scores, inspectors typically return to perform another inspection within a couple weeks.

Goldbergs got an “A” score of 93 on its last inspection last September. In June and July of 2019, Golbergs got “C” scores of 70 and 76.

Another well-known East Cobb restaurant that got a low health score recently was reinspected this week.

Ted’s Montana Grill got a “C” score on Feb. 4, with violations that included no paper towels in the dish washing area and no proof of procedures for employees on how to respond to vomiting or diarrheal events.

When inspectors returned to Ted’s on Wednesday, they gave the restaurant an “A” score of 91 and found only a TCS food storing temperature violation for ribs, horseradish cream sauce, butter and sour cream.

The report noted the violation was corrected on-site, the ribs and sour cream were discarded and the horseradish cream sauce was placed on ice.

Ted’s three previous inspections, dating back to 2017, all had “A” scores.

“Ted’s held a mandatory retraining course for the entire team to ensure this does not happen again,” said Eddie Hensley, the director of operations for Ted’s at East Cobb, in a statement issued through a Ted’s spokeswoman.

“Food safety and training are of the utmost importance to the team at Ted’s Montana Grill, and our guests will always be our number one priority. We assure you that incidents such as this are no indicator of the high level of standards and proper training we have established.”