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Chances Caribbean Restaurant and Bakery

200-08 LINDEN BOULEVARD, Queens, NY 11412

Last inspected Dec 1, 2025

Excellent. Top marks — the latest inspection found no serious issues, or few enough to earn the health department's best band.

A
Excellent

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Inspection history

  1. Dec 1, 2025

    A
    2 violations
    • Critical:Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.
    • Critical:Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
  2. Oct 20, 2025

    12 violations
    • Critical:Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
    • Accurate thermometer not provided or properly located in refrigerated, cold storage or hot holding equipment
    • Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
    • Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) single service article not designated as a recyclable material.
    • Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
    • Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
    • Critical:Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
    • Wash hands sign not posted near or above hand washing sink.
    • Critical:Food, prohibited, from unapproved or unknown source, home canned or home prepared. Animal slaughtered, butchered or dressed (eviscerated, skinned) in establishment. Reduced Oxygen Packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing. ROP food prepared on premises transported to another site.
    • Garbage receptacle not pest or water resistant, with tight-fitting lids, and covered except while in active use. Garbage receptacle and cover not cleaned after emptying and prior to reuse. Garbage, refuse and other solid and liquid waste not collected, stored, removed and disposed of so as to prevent a nuisance.
    • Critical:Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
    • Anti-siphonage or back-flow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly. Condensation or liquid waste improperly disposed of.

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