Tijuana Flats Burrito Co, 23100 Sr 54 #101, Lutz, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: TIJUANA FLATS BURRITO CO
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 23100 Sr 54 #101, Lutz, FL 33549
License #: 6113227
Total inspections: 9
Last inspection: 07/17/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area. Keys on cutting board **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Employee prepping food **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. Food containers on dish rack
  • Basic - In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses. Cookline
  • Basic - In-use utensil not stored with handle above the top of potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food and rim of the container. Cheese, cookline
  • High Priority - Displayed food not properly protected from contamination. Fruit, bar
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Blocked by plastic bags, across from dish rack
07/17/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area. Cell phone.
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation.
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair.
  • Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in cooler.
  • Basic - Wiping cloth quaternary ammonium compound sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength.
  • High Priority - Cut lettuce cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • High Priority - Cut tomatoes cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to work with food.
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on new set of gloves to work with food.
  • Intermediate - Cold water not provided/shut off at employee handwash sink. By ice machine.
1/14/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation.
  • Basic - Food storage container/container lid cracked or broken.
  • Basic - Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination.
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair.
  • Basic - Wiping cloth quaternary ammonium compound sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Squeeze bottles.
  • High Priority - Cut tomatoes cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • High Priority - Employee rubbed hands together for less than 10-15 seconds while washing hands.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food found greater than 47 degrees Fahrenheit but less than 70 degrees Fahrenheit more than six hours. See stop sale.
  • 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.
  • Intermediate - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food covered while cooling.
10/2/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Walk in cooler. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination. Hallway. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to work with food.
5/13/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable.
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils.
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area.
  • Basic - Employee with no beard guard/restraint while engaging in food preparation.
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Walk in cooler.
  • Basic - Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on new set of gloves to work with food. **Repeat Violation**
1/24/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured. Repeat Violation.
  • Observed cutting board grooved/pitted and no longer cleanable.
  • Critical - Observed employee put on/changing single use gloves and engage in food preparation, handle clean equipment or utensils, or touch unwrapped single-service items, without washing hands.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed food being cooled by nonapproved method.(do not cover food while cooling)
  • Critical - Observed incorrect chemical test kit provided when using chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink.
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.(walk in cooler)
  • Critical - Observed sanitizing solution exceeding the maximum concentration allowed.
  • Observed single-service articles stored without protection from contamination.(hallway) Repeat Violation.
  • Wiping cloth chlorine sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.(squeeze bottles)
9/12/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured.
  • Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener.
  • Observed food debris, dust or dirt on clean food storage container.
  • Observed single-service articles stored without protection from contamination.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled spray bottle.
  • Critical - Single-use gloves not changed as needed after changing tasks or when damaged or soiled.
3/27/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils.
  • Critical - Observed employee put on/changing single use gloves and engage in food preparation, handle clean equipment or utensils, or touch unwrapped single-service items, without washing hands.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • 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.(inside bulk food container) Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area.(walk in cooler) Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled spray bottle.
  • Critical - Portable fire extinguisher not properly mounted at least 4 inches off the floor and the top no higher than 5 feet off the floor.(ABC) For reporting purposes only.
  • Wiping cloth quaternary ammonium compound sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength.
11/1/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit.(walk in cooler)
  • Observed cutting board grooved/pitted and no longer cleanable.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener.
  • Observed ice scoop with handle in contact with ice.
  • 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.
  • Critical - Observed live flies in kitchen.
  • Observed single-service articles stored without protection from contamination.(hallway)
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area.(walk in cooler)
  • Critical - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on site and held more than 24 hours with not properly date marked.(walk in cooler)
7/26/2011Food-Licensing InspectionInspection Completed - No Further Action

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