Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar, 2823 S Orange Ave Ste 100, Orlando, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: APPLEBEE'S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL & BAR
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 2823 S Orange Ave Ste 100, Orlando, FL 32806
License #: 5812902
Total inspections: 9
Last inspection: 10/14/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Black debris on floor under, around, or behind equipment in bar.
  • Basic - Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Plates on top shelf at cook line not inverted **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers. In ware wash area
  • Basic - Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside. Back kitchen door
  • Basic - Food debris/dust/grease/soil residue on exterior of microwave. Cook line left side
  • Basic - Food stored in holding unit not covered. Ice cream in freezer at cook line **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Gaskets with slimy/mold-like build-up. Coolers at cook line
  • Basic - Interior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. Cook line left side
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Hand sink at cook line
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/with ready-to-eat food in walk-in freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw fish over vegetables in WIF **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of food debris/grease on food-contact surface. On underside of shelf at cook line with clean bowls stored underneath
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Hand sink on cook line blocked by tray **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Interior of refrigerator soiled with accumulation of food residue. Cooler drawers under grill/griddle area
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Hand sink at cook line
  • Intermediate - No soap provided at handwash sink. Handsink at cook line and hand sink at bar
  • Intermediate - Reach-in freezer shelves soiled with food debris. Cook line
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Warewash area **Corrected On-Site**
10/14/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Accumulation of food debris/soil residue on handwash sink. On cook line by server area **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. All **Repeat Violation**
  • 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. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area. Cell phone **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Prep person **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Food stored in dry storage area not covered. Several products in dry storage room **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Old labels stuck to food containers after cleaning. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination. Black plastic to go containers on wire rack **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in cooler. Pickle bucket **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Unwashed fruits/vegetables stored above ready-to-eat food. Box of lemons over open bucket of pickles in walk in cooler
  • Basic - Walk-in freezer shelves soiled with encrusted food debris.
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Salt,black pepper,red seasoning in square plastic containers in bak room **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Employee touched soiled apron/clothes and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Cook **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. On cook line server area **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food covered while cooling. penny pasta covered during cooling in walk in cooler temp 50 f. Less than two hours prepared at 9:54 and marked. Corrective action taken. Removed cover ,transferred to sheet pan and put on cooling rack.
  • Intermediate - Vegetable chopper/dicer/shredder/peeler soiled with old food debris. Lemon wedges and slicer **Corrected On-Site**
5/9/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Equipment or utensils not designed or constructed in a durable manner, storage rack in dry storage area were rusted. **Warning**
  • Basic - Old food stuck to clean dishware/utensils, by food prep table, back area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Old labels stuck to food containers after cleaning. **Warning**
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler shelves with rust that has pitted the surface, by cooks line. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly, was 0 ppm **Warning**
2/26/2014Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Coffee filters not stored in a protected manner to prevent contamination, by server station. **Warning**
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable, cooks line sand server station. **Warning**
  • Basic - Equipment in poor repair reach in cooler ambient temp of 54°f, by cooks line. **Warning**
  • Basic - Equipment or utensils not designed or constructed in a durable manner, storage rack in dry storage area were rusted. **Warning**
  • Basic - Food stored in dry storage area not covered, bottle of oil and margarine, dry storage area. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Food stored on floor, bottle of oil under 3 compartment sink. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Old food stuck to clean dishware/utensils, by food prep table, back area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Old labels stuck to food containers after cleaning. **Warning**
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler shelves with rust that has pitted the surface, by cooks line. **Warning**
  • Basic - Spray bottle containing a food product not labeled, oil. **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk-in freezer shelves soiled with encrusted food debris. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly, was 0 ppm **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to work with food. **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, touching lemons with bare hands Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit, chicken 48°f, hot dog 48°f, chimichanga 47°f, inside reach in cooler by cooks line, that unit was 54°f. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No soap provided at handwash sink, by prep area by back prep area. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled, cleaner. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
2/25/2014Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Basic - 4-603.15(A) old labels stuck on clean dishes. **Warning**
  • Basic - Leaking pipe at plumbing fixture. In dish room **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained/soiled. **Warning**
10/24/2013Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - 4-603.15(A) old labels stuck on clean dishes. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils.dish room **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Food stored in dry storage area not covered. On shelf by salad station **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - In-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment. At cook line **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - In-use utensil used with moist food stored in running water with insufficient velocity to flush food particles away. Not on **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Leaking pipe at plumbing fixture. In dish room **Warning**
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed in standing water. Alfredo sauce **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination. To go plastic black containers **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Cinnamon sugar **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.butter spread 80 f,grilled onions 49, Alfredo sauce 60 f, rice 67on cook line and back room on the rack. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Certified Food Manager or person in charge lacks knowledge of foodborne illnesses and symptoms of illness that would prevent an employee from working with food, clean equipment and utensils, and single-service items. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained/soiled. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Employee used handwash sink as a dump sink. Dumping lemon seeds in HWS by ice tea dispenser **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No quaternary ammonium chemical test kit provided when using quaternary ammonium chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No written procedures available for use of time as a public health control to hold potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food. Butter spread time marked for three hour. Np plan available **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Labeled window cleaner and filled with clear liquid water **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Vegetable chopper/dicer/shredder/peeler soiled with old food debris. Slicer chopper and lemon wedger **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
10/22/2013Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. **Warning**
  • Basic - Dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers.by office **Warning**
  • Basic - Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside. **Warning**
  • Basic - Soil residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface.on top and side of dish machine by doors **Warning**
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated black debris in dishwashing area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to work with food. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Vegetable chopper/dicer/shredder/peeler soiled with old food debris.all four slicer dicers **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
8/23/2013Complaint FullCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. **Warning**
  • Basic - Dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers.by office **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside. **Warning**
  • Basic - Packaged food labeled improperly or incompletely and does not comply with Federal Standards of Identity.oil squeeze bottle **Warning**
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed in standing water. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed under water that was barely running/dripping.sliced ham thawed portion 42 Moved to walk in cooler **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Soil residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface.on top and side of dish machine by doors **Warning**
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated black debris in dishwashing area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wet mop not stored in a manner to allow the mop to dry. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Cooked potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 70 degrees Fahrenheit within 2 hours.RED POTATOES STEAMED TO 165 f and marked time 8:58 am checked at 12:00 pm at 85 f at prep station. Potatoes in wic at 74 f 28-29 f drop each hour. Advised operator to cut potatoes and put in walk in cooler **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to work with food. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - No vacuum breaker on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb. On wrong side( installed on chemical dispenser side) missing on hose side **Warning**
  • High Priority - Nonexempt fish offered raw or undercooked has not undergone proper parasite destruction. Fish must be fully cooked or discarded. Salmon cooked temperature 125 f **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.garlic butter on cook line at 65 f Explained holding temp. Cold 41 or colder ,hot 135 or hotter or use TPHC ( explained and e mailed new form) **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Employee used handwash sink as a dump sink.at bar **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times.prep area HWS blocked by fan blower in front of HWS **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food left at room temperature to cool.RED POTATOES 85 at 12:00 pm advised operator to cut and move to walk in cooler . CHECKED TEMPERATURE AT 1:30 PM AT 75 f. ADVISED OPERATOR TO REHEAT TO 165. Operator put potatoes in steamer checked at 1:47 pm at 95 f. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Soda gun soiled.at bar **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Vegetable chopper/dicer/shredder/peeler soiled with old food debris.all four slicer dicers **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
3/22/2013Complaint FullWarning Issued
  • No Violations Were Observed
7/20/2012Food-Licensing InspectionInspection Completed - No Further Action

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