Cockroaches in an exotic food restaurant reported by visitors

After receiving a report of a cockroach spotted in the visitors' lounge of the restaurant „Gan bei city“ in Kaunas city shopping centre „Akropolis“, the Kaunas District Supervision Department of the State Food and Veterinary Service (VVS) carried out an unscheduled inspection this week. The information was confirmed: cockroaches were found in all the food-handling areas, and a number of other serious irregularities were found. For these reasons, the restaurant has been temporarily suspended.

The inspection revealed that the restaurant was not keeping its premises, equipment and inventory clean and that pest control was not being properly carried out. In the various food handling areas – the open kitchen, the bar area, the inventory washroom, the storage and ancillary areas – there was a high level of uncleanliness, with food residues accumulated under equipment, dirty and improperly stored production equipment, uncleaned refrigeration units and some equipment – worn out.

Improprieties were also found in relation to the storage of food and the prevention of cross-contamination: raw meat bowls were not fully labelled; part of the production equipment was stored under a sewage pipe; in the dry storage area, ready-made semi-finished products – rice noodles were stored in the open; in the serving area, unwashed eggs were stored next to the clean production vessels; in the kitchen, the egg-washing equipment was not completed and labelled, no instructions for egg-washing had been prepared, and the location of the egg-washing process was not clear.

In view of the infringements found, the activities of the restaurant UAB „Gan bei city“ have been temporarily suspended by decision of the VMVT from 18 December 2025. The administration of Kaunas „Akropolis“ was also informed about the situation and recommended to take preventive measures and to tighten pest control in other food processing entities operating in the shopping centre. The establishment will only be able to resume its operations once all the deficiencies have been corrected following a re-inspection by the VMVT.