Jin Jin Chinese Restaurant, 1132 John Sims Pkwy, Niceville, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: JIN JIN CHINESE RESTAURANT
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 1132 John Sims Pkwy, Niceville, FL 32578
License #: 5603504
Total inspections: 17
Last inspection: 08/22/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food, sugar. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Build-up of grease/dust/debris on hood filters.
  • Basic - Case of single-service articles stored on floor in dry storage area/kitchen/wait station, bags next to exit door kitchen.
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler, carrots sauce buckets. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Ceiling tiles in disrepair, kitchen and dining room.
  • Basic - Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris under reachin cooler cookline.
  • Basic - Food stored on floor, sugar/rice containers and sauce buckets, storage room.
  • Basic - Grease accumulated under cooking equipment.
  • Basic - No waste receptacle installed at handwash sink in kitchen provided with disposable towels, frontline handsink.
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food, chest/upright freezers. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in cooler, vegetables krab. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated food debris, prep area. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name, sugar cornstarch. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Cooked rice/pasta cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Noodles in reachin cooler cookline 51°f for less than 4 hours.
  • High Priority - Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Employee came from cleaning dining room to food preparation.
  • High Priority - Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Employee touched face then food preparation.
  • High Priority - Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Employee took order over phone then proceeded to food preparation.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Eggrolls 55°f on top of reachin cooler frontline, lid left open. Shrimp on makeline cookline lid left open. Both items for less than 4 hours.
  • 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. Garlic/oil and cornstarch/water on crash cart for less than 4 hours. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. Raw chicken/beef over sauce buckets and shrimp over krab. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at mop sink faucet.
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing, scrubber in backroom handsink. **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink, back line handsink.
  • Intermediate - Operator is not properly tracking/marking the number of days ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite was held at refrigeration temperatures prior to freezing in order to properly date mark the food when it is thawed and held at refrigeration temperatures again. Cooked pork in chest freezer. **Repeat Violation**
08/22/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food, rice cornstarch flour.
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler, buckets of sauces and carrots.
  • Basic - Hood filters in disrepair. Plastics melted on 2 filters.
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit, cookline.
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food, pork in chest freezer.
  • Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in cooler, cut vegetables.
  • Basic - Unpackaged food not protected from environmental sources of contamination during preparation. Stacking pans of dumplings on top of each other without protection chest freezer.
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated food debris, prep area.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name, cornstarch/flour.
  • High Priority - Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Employee came from storage area handling dirty chest freezer door to food preparation.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Eggrolls 49°f in reachin cooler frontline, unit had thick plastic between eggrolls and pan which was removed.
  • 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, garlic/oil rice cornstarch/water for less than 4 hours. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler, raw chicken over cut onions, shell eggs over cut cucumbers.
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in upright freezer - all products not commercially packaged. Chicken over beef in upright freezer next to mopsink.
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in walk-in cooler, chicken over pork.
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing, scrubber in backroom hamdsink.
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink, frontline. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - No soap provided at handwash sink, back room. **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - Operator is not properly tracking/marking the number of days ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite was held at refrigeration temperatures prior to freezing in order to properly date mark the food when it is thawed and held at refrigeration temperatures again. Cooked pork in the chest freezer.
2/5/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food, rice cornstarch. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler/freezer, chicken beef on walkin cooler floor.
  • Basic - Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner, grey tubs.
  • Basic - Food stored in dry storage area not covered, cashews.
  • Basic - Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable, gallon jug cut for scoop for rice.
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees, restroom.
  • Basic - Nonfood-grade bags used in direct contact with food.
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed at room temperature, meat on prep table.
  • Basic - Uncovered food stored near sink exposed to splash, chicken next to back line handsink. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name, cornstarch flour planko.
  • High Priority - Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Taking cash then proceeded to food preparation.
  • 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, cornstarch on crash cart.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food, chicken/pork over peeled onions/sauces in walkin cooler.
  • Intermediate - Interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue, cookline.
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink, back and frontline sinks, corrected onsite at frontline sink.
  • Intermediate - No soap provided at handwash sink, back line.
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled, degreaser.
10/9/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. (In bulk dry bins) **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler. (Case of carrots and case of onions) **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Single-service articles stored in toilet room/locker room/garbage room/mechanical room. (To go containers) **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Uncovered food stored near sink exposed to splash. (Tub of chicken not covered next to 3 compartment sink) **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. (Raw beef over RTE onions) **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in walk-in cooler. (Raw chicken over raw beef) **Corrected On-Site**
6/21/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. (In bulk dry bins)
  • Basic - Case of single-service articles stored on floor in dry storage area. (On floor in employee restroom) **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in dry storage area. (Cases of shortening on floor)
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler/freezer. (Cases of carrots on walk-in cooler floor) **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Single-service items stored on floor in kitchen. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. (Raw chicken over RTE imitation crab)
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. (Raw shell eggs over RTE cooked rice in walk-in cooler)
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use due to being blocked by singles service cases in employee restroom. **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. (At end of cashier line)
  • Intermediate - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food wrapped in plastic wrap/placed in closed plastic bag while cooling. (Cooked rice in walk-in cooler)
3/29/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Employee training certificates expired 11/26/11. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR's contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233.
  • Critical - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times... employee restroom handsink blocked by boxes.
  • Observed boxes of single-service food take-out containers stored in employee restroom.
  • Observed build-up of grease on hood filters.
  • Critical - Observed large bag of carrots stored on walk in cooler floor.
  • Observed light food splash on wall in prep area by walk in cooler.
  • Observed single-service articles stored on kitchen floor... take-out containers.
  • Critical - Observed soiled magnetic knife rack... wall.
10/8/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Did not observe food employee wash hands during inspection... Corrected On Site.
  • Observed (round) cutting board badly grooved/pitted and no longer cleanable... Corrected On Site.
  • Observed build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface...(x2) filters under hood.
  • Critical - Observed extension cord in use for non-temporary period. For reporting purposes only.
  • Critical - Observed toxic item improperly stored. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed wall soiled with accumulated black debris in dishwashing area.
  • Observed wall soiled with accumulated food debris.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
3/7/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees.
  • Critical - Observed buildup of soiled material on racks in the reach-in cooler.
  • Observed ceiling in disrepair...semi-large hole in ceiling tile...
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint. Repeat Violation. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed employee with open sores/cuts/burns handling food. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor...bag of onions...
  • Observed pot being used as rice scoop.
  • Observed single-service articles improperly stored...on sink of employee RR... Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area...bag of rice not closed... Corrected On Site.
  • Observed wet wiping cloths used for occasional spills on equipment food- and nonfood-contact surfaces not clean.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Repeat Violation.
11/9/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees...kitchen...
  • Critical - No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees...men's R/R Repeat Violation.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • Critical - Observed interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue.
  • Observed single-service articles stored without protection from contamination. Corrected On Site. Repeat Violation.
  • Observed soiled dry wiping cloth in use.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area...pork/chic. in WIC Corrected On Site. Repeat Violation.
  • Observed wall soiled with accumulated food debris. Corrected On Site. Repeat Violation.
  • Observed wet wiping cloths used for occasional spills on equipment food- and nonfood-contact surfaces not clean. Repeat Violation.
  • Observed worn out tiling on food prep area kitchen floor.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Repeat Violation.
5/24/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit...NEW RI prep cooler.
  • Critical - No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees...co-ed restroom...
  • Critical - Observed interior of reach-in freezer soiled with accumulation of food residue.
  • Observed nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair...broken handle to RIF...
  • Observed single-service articles stored without protection from contamination...NOT stored inverted on un-covered shelf.
  • Critical - Observed toxic item improperly stored. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area...bags of rice left open... Corrected On Site.
  • Observed wall soiled with accumulated food debris.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.
2/14/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.
  • Critical. Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. Observed food stored on floor...onions... Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area. 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 food employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands and the establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Corrected On Site.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • Critical. Observed interior of reach-in freezer soiled with accumulation of food residue.
  • Critical. Vacuum breaker mising at hose bibb...(x2) in kitchen...
  • Critical. Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees.
  • Critical. Observed extension cord in use for non-temporary period. For reporting purposes only.
10/8/2010Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.
  • Critical. Observed food stored on floor...bags & contaners of bulk food "stuffs" on storage floor... Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area. 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 food employee (cook, dishwasher, wait staff, etc.) washing hands in a sink other than an approved hand wash sink...wiped hands on soiled wiping cloth... Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. No chemical test kit provided when using chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • Critical. Observed buildup of soiled material on racks in the reach-in cooler.
  • Critical. Observed interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue.
  • Observed residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface...bottom of RI freezer...
  • Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface.
  • Observed single-service articles improperly stored.
  • Critical. Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing...(x1)
  • Critical. Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing...(x1)
  • Critical. No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees...sign not fully visible... Corrected On Site.
  • Critical. Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions...HT'S bot easily accessable... Corrected On Site.
  • Floors not constructed easily cleanable...patch of repaired floor by pervious cement...
  • Critical. Observed toxic item improperly stored. Corrected On Site.
  • Wet mop not hung to dry.
4/8/2010Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.
  • Critical. Observed food stored on floor.
  • Critical. Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area.
  • Observed food scoops nit stirec in a clean & safe manner... Corrected On Site.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • Critical. Observed interior of reach-in freezer bottom soiled with accumulation of food residue.
  • Floors not maintained smooth and durable.
  • Light not functioning...mens rest room...
  • Wet mop not hung to dry.
  • Critical. Exit signs not properly illuminated. For reporting purposes only.
  • Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured.
  • No copy of latest inspection report.
9/15/2009Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
No report available. 6/17/2009Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
No report available. 2/3/2009Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
No report available. 12/11/2008Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
No report available. 10/9/2008Routine - FoodWarning Issued

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