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Hometown Buffet on South Wilmot Road wasted no time taking care of critical violations from last week.

According to the Pima County Health Department report, the staff is now using proper dishwashing techniques, foods are properly separated to avoid cross-contamination, the dishwasher itself contains proper bleach levels and there are no more signs of boric acid in the fuse boxes.

All of the violations have been corrected, and with that, Hometown Buffet passed its re-inspection.

Another restaurant taking care of business is Madre Mia's on South Rita Road. A few weeks ago, they were put on Provisional status for having more than five violations.

Since then, all foods were at proper cooling temperatures, food contact surfaces were very clean, foods were properly date-marked and there were no broken utensils.

Madre Mia's is right back on track and passed it's re-inspection.

The Village Inn on East Speedway Boulevard received four critical and five non-critical violations.

Ham and sausage links were 9-degrees over required cold-holding temperatures. A staff member was observed handling dirty dishes,then handling clean ones. And in the walk-in cooler, excessive amounts of a green mold-like substance was spotted hanging from the shelves above open containers of clean salad.

The Village Inn still managed a *G* for Good.

The best of the week belongs to China Rose Restaurant on East Speedway Boulevard, Extreme Pita on West Wetmore Road, and Zayna Mediterranean on East Tanque Verde Road - all scoring an *E* for Excellent.