WYOMING, Mich, (WOOD) — At Elizabeth’s Kitchen, cockroaches were winning the pest control war.
Kent County Health Department inspectors first found them in March 2015 — live roaches in the kitchen, along with a half-dozen dead roaches.
The fix was easy, or at least they hoped.
Three days later, Elizabeth’s Kitchen emailed proof to the county that its pest control company had sprayed for roaches. Inspectors did not return to follow up.
Six months later, it took a customer complaint — a cockroach on a dining room table — to trigger a response.
A health inspector found a live roach within three seconds of looking for them, according to records obtained by Target 8.
They were crawling out of the dish machine and the oven. Dead roaches were in the wok, in the oven and on a rack with clean dishes.
The health department called it an imminent health risk and, in a rare move, temporarily shut down Elizabeth’s, a family-owned restaurant on 28th Street SW.
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