When you plan to go out to dinner and you choose a restaurant, what kind of things factor into that decision? Maybe you check the menu online and decide there are too few vegetarian options, or that the prices are a bit high.
But do you check to see if the restaurant has received any health code violations recently? And if it has, does that turn you off from eating there ever again?
La Rumba, located at 2311 Price Avenue, is the latest Wheaton restaurant to show up on the list of violations. It was closed Sept. 13 for "rodent and roach infestations and unsanitary conditions," the Washington Post reported. The next day, the restaurant formerly known as El Boqueron was back in business.
We want to hear from you. Tell us in the comments about what types of health code violations are dealbreakers on the dining scene in Wheaton.
This is probably especially bad in my case because, as a friend recently pointed out, the hole-in-the-wall-mom-n-pop places I frequent are probably more likely to violate code than the chain restaurants.