China Hut, 1022 S Pine Avenue, Ocala, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: CHINA HUT
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 1022 S Pine Avenue, Ocala, FL 34471
License #: 5200640
Total inspections: 11
Last inspection: 12/3/2013

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Soy sauce , salt . **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured.
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in dry storage area. Oil container . **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Current Hotel and Restaurant license not displayed.
  • Basic - Ice scoop stored with handle in contact with ice in ice bin.
  • Basic - Newspaper used in direct contact to cover food .Onions in walk in cooler . **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Front service area.
  • Basic - Outer openings not protected with self-closing doors. Rear door .
  • Basic - Reuse of ridged single-use container. Used for storing pork in reach in cooler .
  • Basic - Soiled reach-in cooler gaskets. Kitchen **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in cooler.
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated black debris in dishwashing area.
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in freezer - all products not commercially packaged. Raw chicken over raw pork . **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Hot water not provided/shut off at employee handwash sink.Front service area.
12/3/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Sugar. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in dry storage area. Oil containers. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area. Cell phone. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Food stored in holding unit not covered. Fried noodles.
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Reach in cooler . **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Soiled reach-in cooler gaskets. Kitchen
  • Basic - Wiping cloth chlorine sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength. O ppm
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Flour , sugar.
  • High Priority - Container of medicine improperly stored. Day Quill and allergy tablets on shelf in kitchen. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands.
  • 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. Broccoli
  • High Priority - Food with mold-like growth. See stop sale. Melon in walkin cooler.VOLUNTARILY DISCARDED. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Fresh garlic-in-oil/margarine/butter or product containing fresh garlic-in-oil/margarine/butter mixture held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Temp 60°f **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cornstarch and water 52°f **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Two live flies in customer area.
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet. Outdoor. **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Pork , rice. **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - Soil residue in food storage containers. Dry storage bins , can opener
7/15/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured. **Warning**
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. **Warning**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Refrigerator/ freezer **Warning**
  • Basic - Nonfood-contact equipment not designed and constructed in a durable manner. Metal scrubbers used to scrub woks **Warning**
  • Basic - Single-use containers (cardboard boxes) reused for the storage of food. Fried noodles, forks, napkins **Warning**
  • Basic - Single-use plastic bag reused. Blue and red egg roll bags reused for food storage. **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk in cooler wall soiled with accumulated mold-like substance. **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler floor soiled. Old food buildup **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler shelves soiled with encrusted food debris. **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler/freezer shelves with rust that has pitted the surface. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Nonfood-grade containers used for food storage ' direct contact with food. Powdered food products ( sugar, cornstarch, etc.) **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in freezer ' not all products commercially packaged. Raw chicken over shrimp, pork **Warning**
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained/soiled. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Chicken, pork, shrimp **Warning**
5/15/2013Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Powdered food products **Warning**
  • Basic - Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured. **Warning**
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. **Warning**
  • Basic - Hole in wall. Under three compartment sink. **Warning**
  • Basic - In-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment. **Warning**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Refrigerator/ freezer **Warning**
  • Basic - Nonfood-contact equipment not designed and constructed in a durable manner. Metal scrubbers used to scrub woks **Warning**
  • Basic - Packaged food has no English labeling. Tea **Warning**
  • Basic - Plumbing system in disrepair. Plumbing for grease trap. **Warning**
  • Basic - Reuse of single-use number 10 cans. Reusing for food storage: shell eggs, raw chicken **Warning**
  • Basic - Single-use containers (cardboard boxes) reused for the storage of food. Fried noodles, forks, napkins **Warning**
  • Basic - Single-use plastic bag reused. Blue and red egg roll bags reused for food storage. **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk in cooler wall soiled with accumulated mold-like substance. **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler floor soiled. Old food buildup **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler shelves soiled with encrusted food debris. **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler/freezer shelves with rust that has pitted the surface. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Evidence of mop/cleaning wastewater dumped onto ground. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Grease interceptor/trap overflowing onto ground. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Nonfood-grade containers used for food storage y direct contact with food. Powdered food products ( sugar, cornstarch, etc.) **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.cookline: garlic and oil 51?F, cornstarch and water 51?F **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over cooked food. Upright Freezer: raw chicken over cooked chicken **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in freezer y not all products commercially packaged. Raw chicken over shrimp, pork **Warning**
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained/soiled. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Manager lacking proof of food manager certification and no other certified food service manager employed at this location. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Chicken, pork, shrimp **Warning**
5/8/2013Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • In-use knife not stored on a clean portion of food preparation or cooking equipment. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed bag of rice stored on storage room floor. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed bathroom doors left open other than during cleaning or maintenance. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed bleach spray bottle improperly stored on top of dishmachine. Repeat Violation. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener. Repeat Violation. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed food residue build-up inside smoker.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered rice in dry storage area. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Unlabeled 5 gal. bucket of chlorine santizer not bearing the manufacturer's label/or labled. Corrected On Site.
8/27/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Hand wash sink in mens restroom lacking proper hand drying provisions. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed bare hand contact of ready-to-eat food by employees and establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure in effect. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed bleach spray bottle improperly stored on top of dishmachine. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed employee engage in food preparation, put on glove without washing hands FIRST.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed sanitizing solution exceeding the maximum concentration allowed in towel bucket. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled spray bottle. BLEACH. Corrected On Site.
2/2/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • No Violations Were Observed
8/31/2011Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Critical - Establishment operating without a current Hotel and Restaurant license.
  • Critical - Observed power cleaner, and stainless polish stored on top of dishmachine.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled spray bottle. Corrected On Site.
8/31/2011Routine - FoodAdministrative complaint recommended
  • Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. Foil stuck to prep. table.
  • In-use knife not stored on a clean portion of food preparation or cooking equipment. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - No handwashing sign provided at a handsink in waitress area used by food employees.
  • Critical - Observed ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on-site and frozen not properly date marked.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled spray bottle in kitchen area, and sanitize towel buckets not labled..
4/18/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. FLOUR, STARCH, & SUGAR.
  • Critical. Potentially hazardous food not held at 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. CHICKEN. 116 Degrees F at room temperature. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. Observed improper use of bowl/plastic food container or other container with no handle used to dispense food that is not ready-to-eat. Potato Starch, & Rice.
  • In-use knife for nonpotentially hazardous food not stored in a clean, protected location. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed nonfood-grade container and grocery bags used for food storage.
  • Critical. Observed buildup of a black residue on inner ice machine lid.
  • Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers in back storage room. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical. Observed unlabeled sanitize towel bucket. Corrected On Site.
9/13/2010Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical. Observed shortening stored on floor. Corrected On Site.
  • In-use utensil not stored on a clean portion of food preparation or cooking equipment. Corrected On Site.
  • Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers in back storage room.
6/4/2010Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action

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