The Estates at Chateau: Food Safety Failures - MN
When inspectors visited The Estates at Chateau on September 15, 2025, they found that five of the facility's refrigerators and freezers had no usable temperature records at all. The bread and dessert freezer had no log. The milk and dairy cooler had no log. The meat freezer had no log. The fresh fruit and vegetable cooler, the miscellaneous cooler, and the vegetable freezer each had a log, but none of those logs identified which month the recorded temperatures belonged to.
The three logs that existed showed readings on the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 11th, initialed by someone identified only as E.O. The 6th of what month, nobody could say. Dietary aide DA-A, interviewed at 12:15 p.m. that day, confirmed on the spot that the facility couldn't account for which month those temperatures had been recorded.
Each log form carried a printed instruction at the bottom: if units fall outside the needed temperature, contact your culinary manager as soon as possible. The forms required AM and PM readings and noted temperatures must stay below 41 degrees. The month field and the unit location field on every recovered log were blank.
A second dietary aide, DA-B, told inspectors that everyone was responsible for checking temperatures on the coolers and freezers. No one had been doing it in any documented, traceable way.
The director of nursing, interviewed three days later on September 18, said daily temperature logging was expected and that the point was to catch unsafe storage conditions before residents ate contaminated food. A food storage policy was requested. It was not provided.
Inspectors did check the dairy cooler directly. It read 38 degrees. That single reading, taken by an inspector rather than staff, was the most complete temperature record the facility had.
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THE ESTATES AT CHATEAU LLC in MINNEAPOLIS, MN was cited for violations during a health inspection on September 18, 2025.
The bread and dessert freezer had no log.
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