Health Inspectors will almost always find something, even in the cleanest kitchen in the world. We passed our latest inspection with flying colours, because everything they said we were doing wrong, we fixed. But then they added stuff to our inspection that they hadn't mentioned in any previous inspections, so sometimes I think they must have some sort of quota. Our inspector is a ***** though tbh.
I feel you. Glad to see someone that works in the industry here! "Oh yes, even though you fixed everything we dinged you for, here's a huge laundry list of **** you did wrong this time".
Yeah, they always tend to find something. One of our permits, the bar, was inspected and aside from a sanitation bucket not having a towel in it (it was in use, on a stainless surface), we got dinged because our lighting was supposed to be at a certain level. Out of our many years, we have never seen a health inspector use a light meter, lol.
Our inspector is new and she is also notorious for being a hardass, and even though we spent 4.5 hours with her, she didn't ding us for anything that we corrected on site.
Most of our demerits were because of how old the hotel building is, and the quality of the engineers that do the repair and maintenance. It's difficult because we will get in trouble if we fix it ourselves the right way, but we have to settle for poor results because they are protected by the culinary union. That and since the hotel is so old we're dealing with issues the previous restaurants left behind.
There was recent changes in the health district that forces them to work nights and weekends (like everyone else in the hospitality industry), they aren't too happy about it and your quota comment makes their attitudes all the more worse, haha.