MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Travelers grabbing a slice of pizza before a flight at Miami International Airport got an unwelcome surprise when state inspectors ordered Famous Famiglia Pizzeria shut after finding rodent activity and other serious sanitation problems.
The restaurant is located in the South Terminal’s Concourse H-J connector, on the second-level departures food court at MIA.
During an Aug. 10 inspection, Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation inspectors found approximately 10 rodent droppings on the back of a preparation cooler, another dropping on the kitchen floor and approximately seven more droppings inside a cabinet drawer underneath the front counter register.
Inspectors also found an accumulation of a black and green mold-like substance inside the ice machine or bin.
The inspection documented dirty floors throughout the kitchen, including the floor inside the walk-in cooler, behind the ice machine and underneath the pizza oven. Those floor violations were marked as repeat violations.
The top of the pizza oven was also soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, and slime or dust, another violation inspectors marked as a repeat.
And inspectors found a food temperature problem serious enough to issue a stop-sale order.
Cut ham inside a reach-in cooler was measured at 51 degrees, above the required cold-holding temperature of 41 degrees or below. According to the operator, the ham had been in the cooler since the previous day.
As of the time of this publication, the pizzeria has not been re-inspected and has not been allowed to re-open.
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