Los Jalapenos Mexican Restaurant

Los Jalapenos scores in the bottom quarter of similar restaurants in the county, with a record marked by temperature control failures and food safety lapses that recur across multiple inspection cycles. The facility has shown an unstable pattern: passing cleanly in July and October 2023, then mounting violations again in October 2024 involving bare hand contact with ready-to-eat foods and improper hot and cold holding temperatures, followed by another clean inspection in November 2024, and most recently a November 2025 inspection that again cited improper raw animal food storage alongside labeling and equipment maintenance issues. The trajectory suggests persistent operational challenges in food safety protocols rather than steady improvement, with the violations appearing to cycle rather than resolve.