Buffalo Bill`s Wing World bills itself as the home of the jumbo wing, but according to Columbus health inspectors the campus area restaurant is home to rats, roaches and a slew of health code violations.Following the recommendations of its Legal Issue Program and Food Protection team, the Columbus Board of Health suspended the food operation license of the restaurant for 30 days on July 16. The suspension occurred after operators failed to correct numerous violations, some dating back to the first year they opened. Buffalo Bill`s, 1479 Worthington St., opened in 1992. The restaurant specializes in carry-out and delivery of chicken wings and sandwiches.”It`s very rare that the board would take action,” said Ted Strouth, health department food protection team leader. “A lot of restaurants will close voluntarily in a situation like this. We just didn`t feel confident that the public`s health was being protected with the conditions that existed at the restaurant.”Strouth said he can recall only “two or three” instances of a food operation license suspension over the past several years.According to health department inspection reports, the restaurant didn`t keep utensils and surfaces which have contact with food clean. Other violations were improperly disposed garbage, poor employee hygiene and rat and rodent infestation. A letter dated July 16 from the health department to Bill Dowling, owner and operator of Buffalo Bill`s, as well as Babyface Pizza, said the restaurant is allowed to take measures to correct these violations and schedule an inspection with the health department. The restaurant can reopen after 30 days if city health codes are met. If reopened, the restaurant will be placed on probation for two years. Terms of the probation include bimonthly inspections by the health department and mandatory attendance of all employees in a food protection class.Dowling could not be reached for comment. A spokesman at Babyface Pizza who wished to be identified only as “Dave” said Buffalo Bill`s was planning to reopen next to the Babyface location at 9 Chittenden Ave. Baby Face Pizza was not involved in the health department`s investigation of Buffalo Bill`s.”No comment,” Dave said. When asked to leave a message for Dowling, he said the owner had no comment.No one answered the telephone when calls were placed to Buffalo Bill`s Wednesday. Previous calls were met by a recording stating the restaurant was closed for “vacation” and would reopen at a new location soon.Jamie Beatty, a former assistant manager who worked at the restaurant for two years, said conditions at the restaurant were not always bad, but got progressively worse.”It wasn`t like that when I started,” Beatty said. “It became a joke, but it wasn`t a very funny joke.”Beatty said the roach problem was particularly bad.”It was an infestation,” he said. “I would walk over to take an order and there would be roaches all over the phone. I would have to hit the phone to make them scatter so I could answer it. They would actually drop from the ceiling.”It`s not like people didn`t know, though. There would be roaches in the lobby and people waiting for their food would comment on them and ask for discounts. But they`d still get their food and eat it.”Beatty said he was once told to serve chicken wings that were green in color before frying and coating them in sauce.A former employee, who did not wish to be identified, said the food was handled improperly on a daily basis.”They`d just sit out until the bin was empty,” he said. “They would be out of the freezer and on the table and we would take them right from there.”