ICYMI: Rock Bottom Brewery Downgraded In Kitchen Inspection

CHARLOTTE, NC — Four Charlotte-area restaurants — including Rock Bottom Brewery — saw their health ratings drop recently after health inspections found dirty ice machines, employees not washing their hands properly, food at the wrong temperature, as well as kitchen gear with stuck on food.

Do you truly know how clean your favorite coffee shop or restaurant is? Find out with the most recent restaurant and food service inspections in Charlotte, Huntersville, Davidson, and elsewhere in Mecklenburg County, performed by the Mecklenburg County Health Department.

Some of the lowest health inspection ratings for recently inspected Charlotte-area restaurants were given to Jerry’s Market at 4227 Statesville Road, Rock Bottom Brewery located at 401 N. Tryon Street, Trade Restaurant and Bar at 132 E. Trade Street, and Ink N Ivy at 222 S. Church Street.

At Jerry’s Market, an inspection found flies, improper hand washing, an employee handling raw meat with their bare hands, and chopping blocks not being sanitized between raw meats.

Rock Bottom Brewery received a “B” rating — their second in less than two months — an inspection found infractions such as dirty containers, tongs and scoops stored as if they were clean, soda machines with debris around the nozzles and an ice machine with black build up inside near the chute.

At Trade Restaurant and Bar, an inspector found raw meat stored above ready-to-eat food, wet sheet pans stacked and stored as clean, and an employee improperly donning gloves without proper hand washing.

An inspection at Ink N Ivy found an employee touching ready-to-eat lettuce with their bare hands, raw beef stored improperly over ready-to-eat food, an ice machine with pink and black build up and multiple food items at improper temperatures.

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Results from the Mecklenburg County Health Department inspections done May 2 — May 8, 2018 are listed below. You may look up your favorite restaurant or find more detailed information about this latest batch of inspections here.

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