Pests and filth at a Miami-Dade 7-Eleven mean no Slurpees, Big Gulps, coffee or pizza

Whether you make a 7-Eleven stop for coffee, a Slurpee, a Big Gulp, a pizza or hot dog munchie run, you couldn’t do it Tuesday or Wednesday at a North Miami 7-Eleven after roaches and flies caused a state inspector to slap stop-use orders on machines all over the store.

Orders taking the food-making, food-storing and food-dispensing equipment out of action came from Florida Department of Agriculture inspector Pedro Llanos during his Monday visit to 590 NE 125th St. They came down on the Slurpee machines, the Big Gulp soda dispenser, all coffee machines, the hot holding units, the oven, the grill and all processing equipment.

Though the inspection itself said the corporate-owned store “Met Inspection Requirements,” the page on the Ag Department website said the result was the inspection nadir: “Re-Inspection Required.”

That would be more in line with the amount of stop-use orders and other violations Llanos noted, some of which were:

▪ The Big Gulp machine had an “accumulation of white/yellow residue.”

▪ Under the Slurpee machines, the inspector saw “two glue traps with numerous dead roaches.”

▪ The backroom featured “live roaches above the three-compartment sink” and, in the sink itself, “soil and old food debris on the bottom.”

▪ “Numerous small, flying insects around the (backroom) mop sink.”

▪ Someone working in the food service area behind the counter wasn’t “wearing an effective hair restraint while working in an area with open food.”

▪ Wiping cloths are supposed to be kept in sanitizer solution when not in use, not sitting on the counter next to the coffee machine.

▪ Tongs in the food service area sat “inside a container with old food debris.”

▪ Speaking of “old food debris,” it was spotted on the bottom shelves of cabinets in the food service area and the retail area.

▪ The retail area’s walk-in cooler had “a large puddle of water on the floor.”