A popular restaurant on Springfield’s south side is closed and facing numerous health violations.

On February 10 2014, the Springfield-Greene county Health Department visited Mr. Yen’s to address complaints and conduct a compliance check. They say they found several violations that initiated a re-inspection.

Roxanne Sharp, Public Health Investigator, says that they have gone back to the restaurant numerous times on checks and re-inspections, and when they were not doing the things they asked them to, then there’s a closure.

There were several critical violations including the following:

-A cook smoking in the kitchen — repeat violation

-Several live and numerous dead cockroaches were observed — repeat violation. A cockroach was also found in a mixer bowl.

-Raw chicken was stored over shrimp in the walk-in cooler and raw chicken stored over cooked chicken in a walk in cooler.

-The chicken was held at a temperature of 108° to 116° instead of being held at 41°and below or 135° and above

-They also had no sanitizer in the dishwasher.