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Magnetawan Grill & Grocery

4244 Hwy 520 Magnetawan ON P0A 1P0 · Restaurant

Official record from North Bay Parry Sound →

Inspection summary

Magnetawan Grill & Grocery has been inspected 12 times by North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit since March 6, 2024. The most recent inspection, on October 6, 2026, recorded 4 infractions.

4 of 12 inspections on record found no infractions at all. In the past 12 months there were 5 inspections with 22 infractions recorded. The higher-risk findings here relate to: Food temperature control, Pests and Cleaning and sanitizing.

The number of infractions per inspection has stayed roughly the same over time.

What these findings mean

Health authorities word their violations differently, so we group them by what they mean for food safety. Higher-risk findings are the ones inspectors treat as critical, because they can directly make someone sick.

  • Food temperature controlHigher risk

    Bacteria multiply fastest between about 4 °C and 60 °C (40 °F to 140 °F). Inspectors check that cold food stays cold, hot food stays hot, cooked food is cooled quickly, and that staff have accurate thermometers. Temperature problems are one of the most common causes of food poisoning, so these are treated as critical findings.

    Recorded 12 times across 8 separate inspections, most recently on October 6, 2026. For example: Thermometers used to verify food preparation and storage temperatures

  • PestsHigher risk

    Signs of mice, rats, cockroaches or flies, or gaps and clutter that let them get in or hide. Pests carry bacteria and can contaminate food and surfaces, so evidence of activity is treated seriously and usually triggers a follow-up visit.

    Recorded 4 times across 4 separate inspections, most recently on October 6, 2026. For example: Adequate protection against the entrance of insects, vermin, and rodents

  • Cleaning and sanitizingHigher risk

    Anything that touches food, such as cutting boards, dishes and utensils, must be washed, rinsed and sanitized. Inspectors check dishwasher temperatures, sanitizer strength and how wiping cloths are stored. Poor sanitizing lets bacteria survive from one use to the next.

    Recorded 3 times across 3 separate inspections, most recently on February 11, 2026. For example: Food contact surfaces washed / rinsed / sanitized after each use and following any operations when contamination may have occurred

  • Protecting food from contaminationHigher risk

    This covers how food is stored, prepared and displayed: raw meat kept away from ready-to-eat food, food covered and stored off the floor, and nothing dripping or splashing into it. Cross-contamination from raw to cooked food is a direct route for salmonella and E. coli.

    Recorded once on May 29, 2025. For example: Food protected from potential contamination and/or adulteration

  • Handwashing and staff hygieneHigher risk

    Hands are the main way germs like norovirus move from people to food. Inspectors look for stocked, accessible handwashing sinks, staff washing hands when required, hair restraints, and sick employees being kept away from food. Gaps here can spread illness quickly.

    Recorded once on May 29, 2025. For example: Hand washing basin with supplies of hot and cold water, soap in a dispenser and single-use towels

About this data

These results come from North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit, which inspects food premises and other public facilities in this area. We republish the authority's public disclosure data and refresh it regularly; the official record is the final word.

12 inspections

  1. Compliance (Required)

    4 infractions

    • Adequate protection against the entrance of insects, vermin, and rodents
      • * Fail to maintain a written record of pest control measures taken for 1 year
      • * Evidence of pests observed
    • Thermometers used to verify food preparation and storage temperatures
      • * Fail to provide thermometer in temperature controlled room / equipment used to store potentially hazardous foods
    • Floors clean and in good repair
      • * Fail to ensure floor of dishwashing area kept clean and in good repair
      • * Fail to maintain food premise with tight, smooth and non-absorbent floor or floor coverings
    • Minimum of 1 Certified Food Handler per hour of operation?
      • * Fail to provide a minimum of 1 certified food handler per hour of operation
      • Operator to ensure a minimum of 1 certified food handler is present during every hour of operation
  2. Re-inspection

    0 infractions

  3. Compliance (Required)

    7 infractions

    • Hot holding of potentially hazardous food: minimum of 60°C (140°F) after cooking / rapid re-heating
      • * Fail to hold potentially hazardous food at 60°C (140°F) or higher after cooking / rapid re-heating
      • Operator to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 60°C (140°F) or higher after cooking/rapid reheating
    • Floors clean and in good repair
      • * Fail to ensure floor of dishwashing area kept clean and in good repair
      • Operator to ensure floors are kept clean and in good repair
      • Operator to ensure floor or floor coverings are tight, smooth and non-absorbent
    • Adequate protection against the entrance of insects, vermin, and rodents
      • * Evidence of pests observed
    • Equipment, non-food contact surfaces and linen are maintained, designed, constructed, installed and accessible for cleaning
      • * Fail to maintain all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are in clean and in good repair
      • Operator to ensure that all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are maintained clean and in good repair
    • Minimum of 1 Certified Food Handler per hour of operation?
      • * Fail to provide a minimum of 1 certified food handler per hour of operation
    • Potentially hazardous food is held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
      • * Fail to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or less
      • Operator to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
    • Washing hands thoroughly before and after handling food
      • * Food handlers fail to wash hands as often as necessary to prevent the contamination of food or food areas
  4. Compliance (Required)

    5 infractions

    • Floors clean and in good repair
      • * Fail to ensure floor of dishwashing area kept clean and in good repair
      • Operator to ensure floors are kept clean and in good repair
    • Potentially hazardous food is held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
      • * Fail to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or less
      • Operator to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
    • Food contact surfaces washed / rinsed / sanitized after each use and following any operations when contamination may have occurred
      • * Fail to ensure sanitizing solution contains the appropriate type of chemical solution and/or concentration/strength of sanitizer
      • Operator to ensure sanitizing solution contain the appropriate type of chemical solution and/or concentration/strength for sanitizing
    • Food is prepared in a safe manner
      • Do not thaw hazardous foods at room temperature
      • Operator to ensure potentially hazardous foods are prepared in a safe manner
    • Food handler (not use tobacco while so engaged, clean, clean outer garments, hair confined, Free of infectious disease / skin disease / submit medical exams and tests as required)
      • * Food handler fail to take reasonable precautions to ensure that food is not contaminated by hair
      • Operator to ensure food handler’s hair is properly confined while handling food
  5. Compliance (Required)

    6 infractions

    • Adequate protection against the entrance of insects, vermin, and rodents
      • * Fail to maintain a written record of pest control measures taken for 1 year
      • Operator to ensure written records are maintained for 1 year
    • Floors clean and in good repair
      • * Fail to ensure floor of dishwashing area kept clean and in good repair
      • Operator to ensure floors are kept clean and in good repair
    • Ceilings clean and in good repair
      • * Fail to ensure ceiling of food premise kept clean and in good repair
      • Operator to ensure ceiling of the food premise is maintained in a sanitary condition and in good repair
    • Food is prepared in a safe manner
      • * Fail to ensure food is prepared in a safe manner
      • Observed potentially hazardous foods not being thawed in an appropriate and safe manner
    • Thermometers used to verify food preparation and storage temperatures
      • * Fail to provide thermometer in temperature controlled room / equipment used to store potentially hazardous foods
      • Operator to provide accurate and easily readable indicating thermometers in temperature controlled rooms/equipment used for storage of potentially hazardous foods
    • Equipment, non-food contact surfaces and linen are maintained, designed, constructed, installed and accessible for cleaning
      • * Fail to maintain all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are of sound and tight construction
      • Operator to ensure light fixtures are properly covered
  6. Re-inspection

    1 infraction

    • Potentially hazardous food is held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
  7. Compliance (Required)

    9 infractions

    • Food is prepared in a safe manner
      • Do not thaw hazardous foods at room temperature
      • Observed potentially hazardous foods not being thawed in an appropriate and safe manner
    • Thermometers used to verify food preparation and storage temperatures
      • * Fail to provide thermometer in temperature controlled room / equipment used to store potentially hazardous foods
    • Sanitary maintenance of and provision of required supplies in staff / public washroom facilities
      • * Fail to equip facility with a supply of soap or detergent
    • Food contact surfaces washed / rinsed / sanitized after each use and following any operations when contamination may have occurred
      • * Fail to ensure sanitizing solution contains the appropriate type of chemical solution and/or concentration/strength of sanitizer
    • Potentially hazardous food is held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
      • * Fail to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or less
    • Food protected from potential contamination and/or adulteration
      • * Observed raw foods stored above cooked / ready-to-eat foods
    • Floors clean and in good repair
      • * Fail to ensure floor of dishwashing area kept clean and in good repair
      • * Fail to maintain food premise with tight, smooth and non-absorbent floor or floor coverings
    • Washing hands thoroughly before and after handling food
      • * Food handlers fail to wash hands as often as necessary to prevent the contamination of food or food areas
    • Hand washing basin with supplies of hot and cold water, soap in a dispenser and single-use towels
      • * Fail to provide adequate supplies (single-use towels, soap in a dispenser) for the hand washing basin in the food preparation area
  8. Compliance (Required)

    0 infractions

  9. Compliance (Required)

    0 infractions

  10. Compliance (Required)

    3 infractions

    • Potentially hazardous food is held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
      • * Fail to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or less
      • Operator to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
    • Thermometers used to verify food preparation and storage temperatures
      • * Fail to provide thermometer in temperature controlled room / equipment used to store potentially hazardous foods
      • Operator to provide accurate and easily readable indicating thermometers in temperature controlled rooms/equipment used for storage of potentially hazardous foods
    • Equipment, non-food contact surfaces and linen are maintained, designed, constructed, installed and accessible for cleaning
      • * Fail to maintain all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are in clean and in good repair
      • Operator to ensure that all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are maintained clean and in good repair
  11. Re-inspection

    0 infractions

  12. Compliance (Required)

    7 infractions

    • Floors clean and in good repair
    • Equipment, non-food contact surfaces and linen are maintained, designed, constructed, installed and accessible for cleaning
      • * Fail to maintain all equipment/non-food contact surfaces as readily cleanable and non-absorbent
      • * Fail to maintain all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are in clean and in good repair
    • Washing hands thoroughly before and after handling food
      • * Food handlers fail to wash hands as often as necessary to prevent the contamination of food or food areas
      • Operator to wash hands before putting on disposable gloves
    • Potentially hazardous food is held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
      • * Fail to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or less
      • Operator to ensure potentially hazardous foods are held at 4°C (40°F) or lower
    • Adequate protection against the entrance of insects, vermin, and rodents
      • * Fail to maintain a written record of pest control measures taken for 1 year
      • Operator to ensure written records are maintained for 1 year
    • Food contact surfaces washed / rinsed / sanitized after each use and following any operations when contamination may have occurred
      • * Fail to ensure sanitizing solution contains the appropriate type of chemical solution and/or concentration/strength of sanitizer
      • Operator to ensure sanitizing solution contain the appropriate type of chemical solution and/or concentration/strength for sanitizing
    • Mechanical dishwashing: Wash / rinse water clean, water temperature, timing cycles, sanitizer

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