Flies contaminated bagels and sweet treats at a Delray Beach eatery, making it the only restaurant in Broward and Palm Beach counties to be ordered shut by state inspectors last week.
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Way Beyond Bagels, Delray Beach
16850 Jog Road
Ordered shut: Oct. 21; reopened Oct. 22
Why: Three violations (two high-priority), such as an infestation of 30 live flies landing on cookies and cinnamon rolls “inside a dessert case” and “on bagels at front counter,” as well as “on dry storage shelving in prep kitchen near walk-in cooler.”
Naturally, the bagel shop was ordered to stop selling and trash its fly-tainted cookies, bagels and cinnamon rolls. The operator discarded these items during inspection. The bagel shop reopened the following day without a single incident found during a second inspection. Way Beyond Bagels has been ordered shut on six occasions over the past 12 months, most recently on Nov. 10, 2021.
