Another violation was for serving undercooked seafood that “not undergone proper parasite destruction,” the inspector’s report said. The inspector ordered the fish to be “fully cooked or discarded.”
The members-only resort ultimately passed the inspection following “corrective actions taken on site,” the report said.
The inspector said the temperature issue was resolved after the chef called a technician, who discovered the coolers’ settings were mistakenly set to defrost.
“We take food safety very seriously and all of the minor adjustments were made immediately,” said a spokeswoman for the Mar-a-Lago Club in a statement sent to CNN. “Additionally, the report by the health inspector was updated on the same day to reflect that the Mar-a-Lago Club was in full compliance.”
Trump purchased the property in 1985 for $5 million. In January, its initiation fee doubled to $200,000. As of January there were 480 members, and membership is capped at 500.
Since taking office President Trump has spent many weekends at the resort and hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for dinner there in February.
Mar-a-Lago, nicknamed the “Winter White House,” has been slapped with a total of 55 citations since 2014, which is as far back as the state’s database goes.