JOY LUCK CHINESE RESTAURANT
1684 S CONGRESS AVE, PALM SPRINGS, FL 33461
License #6019189
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Solid Health Score
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JOY LUCK CHINESE RESTAURANT in PALM SPRINGS currently holds an InspectFL Health Score of 87 out of 100 — a B grade — generally clean with some minor or moderate violations on record. This restaurant has one inspection on record from Florida DBPR, with the most recent inspection on August 5, 2026. Across those visits, DBPR recorded 10 total findings; InspectFL has detailed violation rows for 6 of them so far.
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What stands out in this inspection history
The latest inspection on August 5, 2026 shows 6 observation rows: 3 critical, 1 major, and 2 minor.
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Inspection History
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- Disposition: Inspection Completed - No Further Action
- [02C-08-5] Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food opened/prepared, frozen and then thawed and held at refrigeration temperature not properly date marked. Cooked pork and cooked pork ribs previously frozen not date marked at to go prep reach in cooler.
- [25-32-4] Reuse of single-service or single-use articles. Bowl of rice placed on top of empty single use egg carton at dry storage containers.
- [14-11-5] Equipment in poor repair. In use carrot food storage containers cracked, grooved no longer easily cleaved in walk in cooler. Hole in walk in cooler interior door.
- [01B-02-5] Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Cooked/heated time/temperature control for safety food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 70 degrees Fahrenheit within 2 hours. cooked noodles (73F - Cooling) in deep filled covered containers in walk in cooler. Per operator items have been cooling for over 3 hours.
- [08A-20-5] Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit based upon minimum required cooking temperature. Raw chicken stored above raw shrimp in walk in cooler. Operator reorganized.
- [03F-02-5] Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. Cooked rice held on time on cook line. Per operator, items has been held for less than 1 hour. Operator applied time marking.
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JOY LUCK CHINESE RESTAURANT looks fairly solid on paper. Would you eat here?
Solid overall, with enough history that people may still weigh the details differently.
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