Mema's Restaurant, 1147 Hwy 17 S, Satsuma, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: MEMA'S RESTAURANT
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 1147 Hwy 17 S, Satsuma, FL 32189
License #: 6400412
Total inspections: 9
Last inspection: 10/08/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Monkey dishes in hashbrowns and home fries in 2 door make table
  • Basic - Gaskets with slimy/mold-like build-up. 2 door make table on cook line
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair. 2 door reach in cooler across from cook line near entrance to front counter
  • Basic - Well water testing report/documentation is not available upon request. August report on hand, operator stated September report with appear work at the house
  • Basic - Wiping cloth sanitizing solution stored on the floor. Under hand sink in kitchen **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Bulk containers on shelf of prep table **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength for manual warewashing. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. 0ppm, employee emptied out water and put new water and bleach, 50ppm. **Corrected On-Site**
  • 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. Cook touched toast from flat top to put on plate, corrective action: cook washed hands and put on gloves
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Purple hull peas 46° creamed corn 47° Lima beans 45° green beans 45° in 2 door reach in cooler across cook line near entrance to front counter **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. Butter blend packets on tables, shell eggs on cook line
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. In reach in freezer closest to cook line **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Shell eggs in use or stored with cracks or broken shells. Flat of eggs on prep table on cook line, corrective action: employee discarded shells of cracked eggs.
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb. Hand sink in kitchen and mop sink **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - Employee used handwash sink as a dump sink. Observed operator pouring sanitizer bucket in sink, cup in sink at front counter
  • Intermediate - Encrusted material on can opener blade. **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - No written procedures available for use of time as a public health control to hold potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food. Operator stated form was in kitchen, unable to find.
  • 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. 2 door reach in cooler across from cook line near entrance from front counter
10/08/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area. Items stored above prep table. Purse on meat slicer
  • Basic - Food stored on floor. Oil in kitchen and storage building. Pancake syrup behind bar.
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Hand washing sink in kitchen.
  • Basic - Stored food not covered in chest freezer. Chicken.
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. On cook line. On Hand washing sink.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Breading **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Ham at 47°. Stacked above effective cooling area in cook line cooler. Corrective action taken. Moved to bottom of cooler.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/with ready-to-eat food in reach-in freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw pork above French fries. Reach in freezer in storage building.
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet.
  • Intermediate - Encrusted material on can opener blade.
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use due to items stored in the sink. Bucket **Corrected On-Site**
4/17/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Bulk container by grill
  • Basic - Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured. Storage room.
  • Basic - Case of single-service articles stored on floor in dry storage area/kitchen/wait station. Dry storage building. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Dry storage area and cook line.
  • Basic - Ice scoop handle in contact with ice. Main ice machine.
  • Basic - In-use utensil in nonpotentially hazardous food not stored with handle above top of food within a closed container. Scoop in pasko.
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Throughout facility. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Open dumpster lid. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. Kitchen, food prep area.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Pasko in dry storage.
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to work with food. Grill cook.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Waitress station reach-in cooler milk at 58°. Corrective action taken, milk moved to another reach-in cooler.
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in cooler. Reach in cooler in kitchen, Chicken over shrimp. Shell eggs over bacon in reach-in cooler in storage room.
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance on/around soda dispensing nozzles.
  • Intermediate - Food manager certification expired. One food manager expired 05/13.
8/19/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. Store room.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit. Reach in freezer in kitchen.
  • Nonfood-contact equipment exposed to splash/spillage not constructed of materials that are corrosion resistant, non-absorbent, smooth and easily cleanable. Untreated wood in reach in freezer as shelf support.
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Drink on shelf over three compartment sink. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Critical - Observed dented/rusted cans. One can of apple sauce with dented lid seam.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor. Cooking oil in kitchen, items in store room. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Critical - Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Wait station hand wash sink used for drink dump.
  • Observed open dumpster lid. **Repeat Violation**
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Comminuted meat over plant food in reach in freezer.
  • Observed single-service items stored on floor. Cups in store room. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Critical - Observed toxic item improperly stored. Detergent over paper napkins. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Critical - Thermometers not calibrated according to manufacturer's specifications. Stem thermometer reading 170? at room temperature.
  • Critical - Unlabeled toxic container does not bear identifying label. Sanitizer bucket. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Wiping cloth chlorine sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength. Less than 10ppm. **Corrected On-Site**
12/27/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Observed CO2 tanks not secured in outside storage area.
  • Observed improper air drying of utensils. Wet nesting of plastic cups.
  • Critical - Observed improper vertical separation in reach in freezer comminuted meat over fish.
  • Critical - Observed interior of microwave soiled.
  • Critical - Observed live flies in kitchen.
  • Observed open dumpster lid.
  • Critical - Observed raw shell eggs over ready to eat food in reach in cooler. COS.
  • Observed reach in freezer gasket in disrepair.
  • Critical - Observed sanitizer bucket at toxic level - greater than 200 ppm.
  • Critical - Observed toxic chemical stored near food. Spray bottles of cleaner near syrup. COS.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered ready to eat food in reach in cooler. Sliced tomato. COS.
  • Observed wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizer bucket.
7/2/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Cold holding equipment incapable of maintaining potentially hazardous food at proper temperatures. 2 door steel reach-in cooler cold holding 40F at top - 48F at bottom.
  • Critical - Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Approx 25ppm. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed an employee beverage container above food for sale in reach-in.. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed personal item stored with clean dishware. Cell phone. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Potatoes and sausage links 46-48F in reach-in cooler. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Pork chops above various rte in freezer. [out of original packaging].
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Turkey bacon above butter, hot dogs. Salt pork over various rte innsteel reach-in. Corrected On Site.
3/23/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Cooked potentially hazardous food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours. Mashed potatoes 54F in reach in cooler. Corrected On Site. Food discarded.
  • In-use utensil for nonpotentially hazardous food not stored in a clean, protected location. Ice scoop stored on top of machine. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed clean utensils/equipment stored in dirty drawers, racks, vestibules or toilet rooms, or between equipment/walls. Utensils in container above dish sink. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor. Bag of onions.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw shrimp over cooked turkey. Raw chicken over various ready to eat foods. Various raw over rte in freezers.
10/24/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Violation: 08A-26-1 Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw chicken over deli-meat. Corrected On Site.
7/7/2011Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured.
  • Critical - Cooked potentially hazardous food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours. Mashed potatoes 49 in reach-in cooler dated 4-28.
  • Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. Plastic jug with hollow handle re-used for sauce.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit by front counter.
  • 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
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • Critical - Observed processed ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food held more than 24 hours not properly date marked after opening. Milk.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw chicken over deli-meat. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed toxic item improperly stored with single service items. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Sugar.
4/29/2011Routine - FoodWarning Issued

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