Efe's Bistro, 8903 Glades Rd Bay D-7, Boca Raton, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: EFE'S BISTRO
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 8903 Glades Rd Bay D-7, Boca Raton, FL 33434
License #: 6010941
Total inspections: 19
Last inspection: 07/25/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease.
  • Basic - In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on new set of gloves to work with food.
  • Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained.
  • Intermediate - Hot water not provided/shut off at employee handwash sink.
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. **Corrected On-Site**
07/25/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Employee beverage container in a food preparation/clean dishware area does not have a lid and a straw or equivalent dispensing mechanism to prevent hand contact with lip contact area of drink container.
  • Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease.
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food. **Corrected On-Site**
2/3/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • No Violations Were Observed
10/30/2013Routine - FoodAdmin. Complaint Callback Complied
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. On the walkin cooler door and door frame.
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler/freezer. Container of fish on freezer floor **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Ice scoop handle in contact with ice. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - In-use utensil not stored on a clean portion of food preparation or cooking equipment. Utensils in dirty container. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Leaking pipe at plumbing fixture.
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Raw animal food stored above unwashed produce. Eggs over produce **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Shelves not attached to walls in walk-ins not constructed of materials that are corrosion resistant, non-absorbent, smooth and easily cleanable.
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler/freezer shelves with rust that has pitted the surface.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Employee used handwash sink as a dump sink. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - No hot running water at three-compartment sink.
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. **Corrected On-Site**
10/16/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Mop/service sink in disrepair. Gap in surrounding wall area allowing water to escape into ground. **Warning**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. At pizza prep cooler and servers area cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Outer openings of establishment cannot be properly sealed when not in operation. Back door not tight fitting or sealing. **Warning**
  • Basic - Utensils in poor condition. Can opener and stand rusted. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wall not smooth, nonabsorbent and easily cleanable in food preparation, food storage, warewashing areas or bathroom. At cookline, tiles missing. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained/soiled.
  • Intermediate - Food manager certification expired. For Gabriel Martinez and Kemal Ustun. **Warning**
5/16/2013Routine - FoodCall Back - Admin. complaint recommended
  • Basic - Accumulation of food debris/soil residue on handwash sink faucet in servers station. **Warning**
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Soap dispenser soiled at HANDWASH sink by cookline. Light switch soiled by HANDWASH sink at cookline. Food on racks left over night not discarded in pizza station. Utensil storage container soiled at cookline. Shelving in pizza prep area soiled. Top of deck oven soiled. Shelving soiled at cookline. **Warning**
  • Basic - Build-up of mold-like substance on nonfood-contact surface. Inside HANDWASH sink by dishwashing area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. At cookline cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Ceiling soiled with accumulated dust. Cookline area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Clean utensils or equipment stored in dirty container at cookline. **Warning**
  • Basic - Covered waste receptacle not provided in women's bathroom. **Warning**
  • Basic - Dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee beverage container in a food preparation/clean dishware area does not have a lid and a straw or equivalent dispensing mechanism to prevent hand contact with lip contact area of drink container. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. **Warning**
  • Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Rusted bottom shelving on table by dishwashing area. Rusted shelving above 3 compartment sink. **Warning**
  • Basic - Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Walkin cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Floor tiles missing. By cookline. **Warning**
  • Basic - Food storage container/container lid cracked or broken. **Warning**
  • Basic - Food stored in holding unit not covered. Chicken not covered over night at cookline cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Gaskets with slimy/mold-like build-up. Cookline cooler and pizza prep cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - In-use utensil in nonpotentially hazardous food not stored with handle above top of food within a closed container. At tea container in servers station. **Warning**
  • Basic - Interior and exterior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. **Warning**
  • Basic - Mop/service sink in disrepair. Gap in surrounding wall area allowing water to escape into ground. **Warning**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. At pizza prep cooler and servers area cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair. Broken tile on servers area counter. **Warning**
  • Basic - Outer openings of establishment cannot be properly sealed when not in operation. Back door not tight fitting or sealing. **Warning**
  • Basic - Plumbing system in disrepair. AC unit in walkin cooler leaking. **Warning**
  • Basic - Reuse of single-service articles. Reuse of feta cheeses and yogurt containers to store salt, sugar , spices, beans, and lentils. **Warning**
  • Basic - Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination. Takeout containers at cookline not inverted over night. **Warning**
  • Basic - Soil residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface. Stove top. **Warning**
  • Basic - Stored food not covered. Flour at cookline not covered over night. Spice containers at cookline not covered over night. Juice containers not covered at cookline over night. **Warning**
  • Basic - Ten (10) foot-candles of light at least 30 inches from floor not provided in walk-in freezer. Light out. **Warning**
  • Basic - Utensils in poor condition. Can opener and stand rusted. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wall not smooth, nonabsorbent and easily cleanable in food preparation, food storage, warewashing areas or bathroom. At cookline, tiles missing. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated grease. By fryer. **Warning**
  • Basic - Water leaking from faucet/faucet handle. At 3 compartment sink. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Container of medicine improperly stored. Medicine and first aid supplies stored over rice in shelving area next to walkin cooler. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • 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. Handling prepped veggies with barehands, no cooking. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Evidence of mop/cleaning wastewater dumped onto ground. In rear of building. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit based upon minimum required cooking temperature. Raw chicken over raw calamari at cookline cooler. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Toxic substance/chemical stored by or with food. Windex stored in food storage shelving by managers office. Under beans , spices. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance on/around soda dispensing nozzles. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained/soiled.
  • Intermediate - Food manager certification expired. For Gabriel Martinez and Kemal Ustun. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Food-contact surfaces in contact with potentially hazardous food not cleaned at least every four hours. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue. Cookline cooler, servers area cooler. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Soil residue in food storage containers. Salt,sugar, sauce,spices, beans, lentil containers in shelving by managers office. **Warning**
2/12/2013Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Critical - Ambient air thermometer in holding unit not accurate within +/- 3 degrees Fahrenheit.in walk in cooler .
  • Clean glasses, cups, utensils, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner.glasses at wait station.
  • Critical - Cooked potentially hazardous food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours.rice in walk in cooler 49 Degrees . Corrected On Site. Voluntary discarded .
  • Critical - Covered waste receptacle not provided in women's bathroom.
  • Critical - Exit signs missing cover. For reporting purposes only.
  • Floors not maintained smooth and durable, in kitchen area.
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions.Both hand wash sinks in kitchen .
  • Critical - Lack of use of chemical test kit when using chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers.near backdoor .
  • Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Door rail and Bottom liner in refrigerator at wait station .
  • Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface.sugar container in dry storage .
  • Observed build-up of mold-like substance on surface of nonfood-contact surface.Hand sink in dishwashing area .
  • Observed ceiling soiled with accumulated dust.kitchen area .
  • Critical - Observed employee drinking from an open beverage container in a food preparation or other restricted area.in kitchen.
  • Observed equipment in poor repair.Microwave table broken glass.
  • Critical - Observed food employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands and the establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure.cook preparing lettuce.
  • Critical - Observed food stored in a prohibited area.Lentils in Detergent container in dry storage .
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor.beef
  • Critical - Observed food with mold-like growth.cucumbers in walk in cooler .
  • Observed gaskets with slimy/mold-like build-up.Throughout coolers.
  • Observed ice scoop with handle in contact with ice.in wait station
  • Critical - Observed improper horizontal separation of raw animal foods and ready-to-eat foods.raw eggs touching cilantro in walk in cooler .
  • Critical - Observed improper vertical separation of raw animal foods raw chicken stored on top of raw fish.
  • Observed nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair bottom self in dishwashing area rusted.
  • Observed nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair cracked glass door.cooler in server station .
  • Observed nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair.lid of sugar container
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.raw eggs on top of sauces.
  • Observed reuse of single-service articles.Detergent container used to store lentils.
  • Observed single-service articles stored without protection from contamination.take out containers not properly inverted.
  • Critical - Observed toxic item stored by utensils.cleaner bottle stored on top of plastic forks.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area.lemons in wait station .
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area.lentils in dry storage
  • Observed unnecessary persons in the food preparation, food storage, or warewashing area.Child in kitchen area .
  • Critical - Outer openings of establishment cannot be properly sealed when not in operation.backdoor not tight fitting.
  • Critical - Raw animal food not properly separated from ready-to-eat food.raw eggs over lemon in walk in cooler .
  • Critical - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on site and held more than 24 hours with not properly date marked.Rice in walk in cooler .
  • Wall not smooth and easily cleanable.in kitchen area
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses in kitchen area .
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.Flour container in kitchen area and sugar container in dry storage.
9/14/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Observed build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface.HOOD FILTERS
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area.BAG OF FLOUR
  • Observed unnecessary items on the premise.CARDBOARD BOXES
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
3/8/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength.
  • Critical - No chemical test kit provided when using chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit.2dr reACHIN
  • Observed build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface.HOOD FILTERS
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.COOKSLINE Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floorKITCHEN.
  • Observed ice scoop with handle in contact with ice.
  • Critical - Observed improper vertical separation of raw animal foods and ready-to-eat foods.RAW EGGS ABOVE VEGES WALKIN
  • Observed residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface.STOVE TOP
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.WHITE SUBSTANCES
8/25/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions.BEVERAGE AREA HANDWASH
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions.KITCHEN HANDWASH
  • Critical - No chemical test kit provided when using chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit.REACHIN DAIRY
  • Critical - No proper chemical test kit provided for measuring the concentration of the sanitizer solution used for wiping cloths.
1/26/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Observed ice scoop with handle in contact with ice.
  • Hood filters are not tight-fitting and firmly held in place - leaving open spaces. For reporting purposes only.
  • Clean glasses, cups, utensils, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner.
  • Critical. Vacuum breaker mising at hose bibb.
8/2/2010Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • No Violations Were Observed
2/17/2010Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Critical. Potentially hazardous food held under time as a public health control without time marking indicating 4-hour limit.PIZZA Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.WHITE SUBSTANCE
  • Critical. Potentially hazardous food not held at 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above.CHEESE PIZZA FRONT COUNTER Corrected On Site. less than 4 hours
  • Critical. Observed food stored on floor.MEAT ROAST S WALKIN FREEZER FLOOR
  • Observed ice scoop with handle in contact with ice.
  • Critical. Observed employee drinking from an open beverage container in a food preparation or other restricted area.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.BOTH PREP COOKS
  • Nonfood-contact equipment not designed and constructed in a durable manner.PREPARATION TABLE SHELVING RUSTED
  • Critical. No chemical test kit provided when using chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • Critical. Observed food-contact surfaces encrusted with grease and/or soil deposits.WHITE CUTTING BOARD
  • Critical. Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions.KITCHEN
  • Critical. Observed roach activity as evidenced by live roaches found2 JUVENILE LIVE ROACHES 1 ADULT LIVE ROACH 1 DEAD ROACH BACK SHELVING UNIT STORAGE OF CLEAN PANS This violation must be corrected by : 2/17/10.
  • Critical. Outer openings of establishment cannot be properly sealed when not in operation.AIR GAP BACK DOOR
  • Observed wall in disrepair.UNDER 3CS SINK
  • Critical. No proof of required employee training provided. All public food service establishments must provide the division with proof of employee training upon request, including, but not limited to, at the time of any division inspection of the establishment. Pro
2/16/2010Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Critical. Violation: 53B-08-1 No proof of required employee training provided. All public food service establishments must provide the division with proof of employee training upon request, including, but not limited to, at the time of any division inspection of the establishment. 1 employee over 60 days needs original certification
10/26/2009Routine - FoodCall Back - Admin. complaint recommended
  • Critical. Observed food stored on floor.WALKIN FREEZER BOXES OF FOOD
  • Critical. Lack of use of chemical test kit when using chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Critical. Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions.SIDE PREP STATION
  • Critical. Outer openings not protected with self-closing doors.BACK DOOR
  • Critical. Outer openings of establishment cannot be properly sealed when not in operation. IR GAP UNDER BACK DOOR
  • Critical. Manager lacking proof of Food Manager Certification. lost original certificate
  • Critical. No proof of required employee training provided. All public food service establishments must provide the division with proof of employee training upon request, including, but not limited to, at the time of any division inspection of the establishment. 1 employee over 60 days needs original certification
8/25/2009Routine - FoodWarning Issued
No report available. 6/18/2009Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
No report available. 4/14/2009Routine - FoodWarning Issued
No report available. 4/14/2009Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
No report available. 1/7/2009Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action

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