Grade
Davg 25 pts · better than 13% of Restaurants
Current Score
Most recent: Apr 27, 2026
Score Trend · All Inspections
County avg (restaurant): 10 to 14
Joe Brown's Cafe currently holds a D-minus grade and scores worse than 86 percent of similar restaurants in the county, placing it well below the middle tier. The facility showed marked improvement in February 2024 with a clean inspection, but has since developed a persistent pattern of temperature control failures and food safety training gaps, with cold holding violations appearing in three of the last four inspections and food worker certification issues recurring in January 2023 and October 2025. The trajectory is downward, as violations have returned and multiplied following the brief clean period, suggesting systemic problems with staff knowledge and equipment management remain unresolved.
Inspection History
Apr 27, 2026
Level 3 High
Oct 20, 2025
Level 3 High
+1 more
Apr 24, 2025
Level 3 High
Feb 8, 2024
Level 3 High
No violations recorded.
Aug 30, 2023
Level 3 High
Jan 20, 2023
Level 3 High