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Britannia and Bel Foods opens local cheese manufacturing plant in India

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9 months ago

October 10, 2024

PTI

Homegrown food company Britannia Industries and French dairy major Bel Group on Wednesday announced the inauguration of its Cheese factory in India at an investment of Rs 220 crore.

Britannia Bel Foods, the joint venture between both firms, has opened a new factory in Ranjangaon, near Pune in Maharashtra, which will produce 10,000 tonnes of high-quality Britannia The Laughing Cow cheese products to meet the growing demands of Indian consumers, according to a statement. The facility leverages Britannia’s milk procurement and support programme with over 3,000 local farmers, it added.

“It is integrated within Britannia’s state-of-the-art dairy production facility, which produces a comprehensive range of Britannia dairy products, including now Britannia The Laughing Cow Cheese with a full range of products: slices, blocks, spread, diced and cubes,” it said.

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Vero Beach area restaurant and food truck inspections July 7-13

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1 day ago

July 16, 2025

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You can use the database to search by county or by restaurant name.

Florida’s restaurant owners are not required to post restaurant inspection results where guests can see them. So every week, we provide that information for you.

For a complete list of local restaurant inspections, including violations not requiring warnings or administrative action, visit our Indian River County restaurant inspections site.

Here’s the breakdown for recent health inspections in Indian River County, Florida, for the week of July 7-13, 2025. Please note that some more recent, follow-up inspections may not be included here.

Disclaimer: The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation describes an inspection report as a ‘snapshot’ of conditions present at the time of the inspection. On any given day, an establishment may have fewer or more violations than noted in their most recent inspection. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long-term conditions at the establishment.

For full restaurant inspection details, visit our Indian River County restaurant inspection site.

Which Indian River County restaurants got perfect scores on their health inspections?

These restaurants met all standards during their July 7-13 inspections and no violations were found.

** Restaurants that failed an inspection and aced a follow-up inspection in the same week

Which Indian River County restaurants had high priority violations?

6700 20th Street, Vero Beach

Routine Inspection on July 10

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

13 total violations, with 3 high-priority violations

High Priority – Live, small flying insects found 4 live flies on cooks line. 11 in back prep kitchen that are landing on prep table. **Warning**
High Priority – Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Raw lobster over sauce in Reach in cooler **Corrected On-Site**
High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooked noodles 46f, coleslaw 44f shrimp 43-44f. Cold holding in walk in cooler. Items were found at 1:20pm. Operator states they got a delivery at noon. **Warning**

532 21st St., Vero Beach

Routine Inspection on July 8

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

8 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations

High Priority – Raw animal food stored over or with ready-to-eat food in a freezer – not all products commercially packaged. Raw pork over noodles in reach in freezer. Educated employee
High Priority – Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Raw shrimp and beef over sauces in walk in cooler

1115 21st St., Vero Beach

Routine Inspection on July 10

Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.

10 total violations, with 3 high-priority violations

High Priority – Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands – food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Cook touched parm. Cheese and sprinkled on garlic knots. Educated cook **Corrective Action Taken**
High Priority – Live, small flying insects found 1 live fly in kitchen
High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Spinach 71f, eggplant 69f cold holding. Advised to rapid chill **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**

What agency inspects restaurants in Florida?

Routine regulation and inspection of restaurants is conducted by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The Department of Health is responsible for investigation and control of food-borne illness outbreaks associated with all food establishments.

How do I report a dirty restaurant in Florida?

If you see abuses of state standards, report them and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation will send inspectors. Call the Florida DBPR at 850-487-1395 or report a restaurant for health violations online.

Get the whole story at our restaurant inspection database.

What does all that terminology in Florida restaurant inspections mean?

Basic violations are those considered against best practices.

A warning is issued after an inspector documents violations that must be corrected by a certain date or within a specified number of days from receipt of the inspection report.

An administrative complaint is a form of legal action taken by the division. Insufficient compliance after a warning, a pattern of repeat violations or existence of serious conditions that warrant immediate action may result in the division initiating an administrative complaint against the establishment. Says the division website: “Correcting the violations is important, but penalties may still result from violations corrected after the warning time was over.”

An emergency order — when a restaurant is closed by the inspector — is based on an immediate threat to the public. Here, the Division of Hotels and Restaurants director has determined that the establishment must stop doing business and any division license is suspended to protect health, safety or welfare of the public.

A 24-hour call-back inspection will be performed after an emergency closure or suspension of license.

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Niverville Welcomes Traditional Indian Cuisine

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2 days ago

July 15, 2025

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On July 1, Niverville’s Pizza Pizza restaurant changed hands. While the franchise continues to serve the community from the same location, pizza now only represents half of the restaurant’s offers.

Flavors of India boasts a full menu of traditional Indian takeout options from the same kitchen. The new proprietor, Harshul Monga, is excited to introduce his family’s favourite foods to the rural southeast.

For Monga, the Niverville eatery is his first foray into restaurant ownership, although he has years of experience managing a Pizza Pizza franchise while living in Toronto.

Monga lives with his wife in Winnipeg—but if the business goes well, they hope to eventually make Niverville home.

“I’ve been cooking Indian food for the last 11 years for myself and my family,” Monga says.

His sister has joined him in the business on a full-time basis. His wife is a nurse but comes out in the evenings and on off-days to help out.

Monga’s family hails from the Indian state of Haryana, bordering Punjab, thus Flavors of India has a distinctly Punjabi influence. The name was created by Monga and isn’t a corporate brand or franchise.

The menu offers 11 traditional appetizers and 10 main courses as well as a variety of sides, desserts, and combo meals.

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A modern Cal-Indian restaurant is the Bay Area’s only new Bib Gourmand

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2 days ago

July 15, 2025

Linda Zavoral

When Michelin announced the 2025 starred restaurants for California on Wednesday, the guide also released its list of Bib Gourmands, awards that recognize eateries offering “great food at a great value.”

Statewide, the list numbers 123 restaurants. Of those, six are new to this year’s guide: Eylan in Menlo Park, Pho Momma in Sacramento, Atelier Manna in Encinitas, Komal in Los Angeles, Rasarumah in Los Angeles and Vin Folk in Hermosa Beach.

Eylan, a contemporary Indian restaurant, also took home a special honor, the Michelin Exceptional Cocktails Award, for the bar team’s creative, cuisine-enhancing drinks like the spicy Bazaar Paloma, with tequila, grapefruit and tamarind, and a “velvety” gin sour called Lady Marmalade. The restaurant’s website credits Bev-West and Christopher Longoria for the bar program.

Leading the restaurant, which has been open only since January of this year, are business partners Ayesha Thapar and Chef Srijith Gopinathan, the team behind Ettan in Palo Alto and Copra in San Francisco.

Michelin inspectors have previously named sister restaurant Ettan one of their “new discoveries.”

Details: 500 El Camino Real, Menlo Park; www.eylanrestaurant.com

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