Great Wall Chinese Restaurant, 412 Reid Ave, Port St Joe, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: Great Wall Chinese Restaurant
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 412 Reid Ave, Port St Joe, FL 32456
License #: 3300696
Total inspections: 8
Last inspection: 08/19/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit.
  • Basic - No container installed for catching grease from hood drip tray. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Plastic jug cut in half and reused as scoop.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cornstarch on cookline 95° f
  • 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. Chicken over beef and beef over shrimp. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Shell eggs held at room temperature with an ambient air temperature greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Cooked chicken pieces.
08/19/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler/freezer. Bag of onions.
  • Basic - Grease accumulated under cooking equipment. Fryers and flat grill.
  • Basic - No container installed for catching grease from hood drip tray. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Beef 46° f, Chicken 47° f, Shrimp 52° f. In table 2 hours. Placed on ice Beef 43° f, Chicken 42° f, Shrimp 45° f. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. Raw chicken and raw shrimp stored over prepped produce.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/with ready-to-eat food in reach-in freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw chicken over raw beef.
  • Intermediate - Reach-in cooler not maintaining potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food at proper temperatures. Do not store potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food in this unit until the unit is capable of maintaining foods at 41 degrees Fahrenheit or colder. Small make table on cook line.
  • Intermediate - Required employee training expired for some employees. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR's contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233.
6/10/2014Complaint FullInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Flour, starch.
  • Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves. **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.
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation.
  • Basic - Grease and debris accumulated under cooking equipment.
  • Basic - No container installed for catching grease from hood drip tray. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food. Chicken in reach-in freezer.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. Raw beef over cooked rice. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw pork over soup. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Required employee training expired for some employees. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR's contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233.
5/16/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Kitchen door.
  • Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Employee personal food not properly identified and segregated from food to be served to the public. Employee fish stored on top of customer food.
  • Basic - Gaskets/seals on holding unit in poor repair. Freezer chest.
  • Basic - No container installed for catching grease from hood drip tray.
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food. Chicken wings.
  • Basic - Plastic jug cut in half and reused as food container.
  • Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in cooler. Onions, cut cabbage.
  • High Priority - Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Cook no hand wash.
  • 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. Onions cut and stored for later use.
  • 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. Cookline 77° f. Placed on ice **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in reach-in cooler. Raw eggs over baby corn. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine.
1/27/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves.
  • Basic - Food storage container/container lid cracked or broken. Hard wood Bowel used for measuring food chipped and breaking off pieces. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Gaskets with slimy/mold-like build-up. Throughout.
  • Basic - Gaskets/seals on holding unit in poor repair. Chest freezer.
  • Basic - Leaking pipe at plumbing fixture. Under three compartment sink.
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in reach-in cooler. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food. Breaded shrimp in chest freezer.
  • Basic - Walls soiled with accumulated debris. Throughout.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Flour, crisp noodles.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in reach-in cooler. Raw eggs stored over RTE and cut produce.
8/28/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils.
  • Basic - In-use utensil not used with moist food stored in running water. Observed ice cream scoop,setting inside a bowel inside the the ice cream cooler. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Soil residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface of the holding containers for the flour. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Working container of food not labeled in English on the back counter next to the back door. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Shell eggs in use or stored with cracks or broken shells inside the reach in cooler on the cook line. **Corrected On-Site**
6/27/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves not change out weekly on the cook line.
  • Basic - Food stored on floor.Observed a bucket of sauce setting on the kitchen floor. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Ice scoop stored with handle in contact with ice in ice bin. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food.
  • Basic - Ripped/worn tin foil used as food-contact shelf cover.
  • Basic - Soil residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface of the plastic containers that holds the rice and sugar needs cleaning.
  • Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in cooler. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated black debris in dishwashing area.
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.Observed plastic bottles on the cook line not labeled.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.Observed raw shrimps setting on bucket of sauce inside the walk-in cooler. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Encrusted material on can opener blade.
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled next to dis washing machine.
1/24/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions in the waitress station. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions on the cookline. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed buildup of slime in the interior of ice machine.
  • Observed clean utensils/equipment stored in dirty drawers, racks, vestibules or toilet rooms, or between equipment/walls.
  • Observed cutting board grooved/pitted and no longer cleanable. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • Critical - Observed improper use of bowl/plastic food container or other container with no handle used to dispense ready-to-eat food.Observed employee using cup to dispensing ice. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed improper use of bowl/plastic food container or other container with no handle used to dispense ready-to-eat food.Observed sugar handled coming into contact with the sugar Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed interior of microwave soiled.
  • Observed nonfood-grade containers used for food storage. Observed thank you bages inuse inside the reachin cooler in the office area.
  • Observed nonfood-grade containers used for food storage.Observed foods stored inside thank you bages.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.raw chicken inside the reachin cooler.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit/during preparation on the cookline reachin cooler.
  • Observed residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface.Observed buildup on the foods container on t e bsck counter.
  • Observed ripped cardboard boxes as shelf cover.
  • Observed unnecessary items on the premise around the mop sink area.
  • Observed wall in disrepair.
  • Observed wall soiled with accumulated black debris in dishwashing area.
  • Critical - Vacuum breaker mising at hose bibb.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.Observed oil bottles not labeled on the cookline.
10/29/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action

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