Popular Kettering Chinese restaurant condemned by city, will close permanently
A popular Chinese restaurant in Kettering told health inspectors they’re closing.
City and county inspections have been focused on Young Chow, located at 20 W. Stroop Road, for weeks. The city told News Center 7 that the violations are so serious they shut the business down until they can make some changes.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 5:30, the paperwork on the doors from the city marks it condemned, not for structural issues, but for fire code building violations.
The closure is temporary until the owners can make some changes, but ownership has told the county they’re closing up shop for good.
All kinds of people in Kettering on Thursday told News Center 7 they’ve stopped along West Stroop Rd. to pick up food at Young Chow.
“When I was younger, we’d come here occasionally just to get some food. But I honestly haven’t been back for a really long time,” said Jamie Pacenta.
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At the end of January, Kettering’s fire marshal showed up when they got a complaint.
“From a neighboring tenant that there was stuff oozing from underneath the floor,” said Tom Robillard, the City of Kettering Planning and Development Director.
The city says when the fire marshal showed up, he found that claim to be true and found several fire code violations, such as ventilation hoods over stoves being out of compliance, and called city property maintenance staff based on what he saw.
The city also got county health inspectors involved, who told News Center 7 some of what they’ve found in their four recent inspections.
“Centered around, food storage, pest activity,” Matthew Tyler, Environmental Health Director of Public Health - Dayton & Montgomery County.
The county said they don’t know whether the pest activity was active or old.
“They might have had pest control come in and, you know, fix some things, but they still had some like pest droppings that they didn’t clean up,” Tyler said.
The violations are stomach-turning.
“Yeah. That’s concerning. It’s gross,” Pacenta said.
The city says ownership has not told them they plan to close. Health inspectors say they’ll mark it closed in their records, but continue to stop by and keep an eye on the place.
News Center 7 was unable to reach the business owner or the landlord for comment Thursday.
We will continue updating this story.
