Popular NoCo Fast Casual Restaurant Swings & Misses On Inspection

If you're a fan of eating the healthy and fresh, this may be a big deal to you, especially if you live in Fort Collins. A longtime, popular restaurant on the south side of town did not pass their routine inspection from the county last week.

As a reminder, restaurants in Larimer County are no longer rated or graded with feedback like "excellent," "good" or "fair." As of Jan. 1, 2020, they are simply allowed up to 49 points worth of violations to "pass." 50-109 points earn them another try at a "re-inspection," and anything over 110 earns them an immediate "closure."

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Mad Greens at 2120 E Harmony Rd in Fort Collins had their routine inspection on November 19 and it didn't go all that well right from the start.

The very first lines of the inspection report read:

Based on this inspection, person in charge does not have working food safety knowledge for keeping foods safe from temperature abuse. Workers must have basic food safety knowledge as it applies to their job duties. Person in charge shall train all employees on food hot holding temperature requirements and proper cooling temperature requirements.

And you can only imagine where things go from there. The restaurant got written up for the usual hand-washing sink issues, like not being stocked up on paper towels, etc.

But where they really got dinged was when it came to food cooling processes, and as a result of these being a pretty big deal, they racked up too many points, ending up having to discard a ton of food on the spot and earned a "re-inspection required" designation.

You can check out their full report on the Larimer County Department of Health website.