- Hair Restraints - Effectiveness (repeated violation)
Observation: Employees observed working in the food service area without proper hair restraints.
Correction: Ensure all employees wear hair restraints such as hats, hair coverings or nets, beard restraints, and clothing that covers body hair, that are designed and worn to effectively keep their hair from contacting exposed food, clean equipment, utensils and linens, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles. This section does not apply to food employees such as counter staff who only serve beverages and wrapped or packaged foods, hostesses, and wait staff if they present a minimal risk of contaminating exposed food
- Thawing (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Improper methods used to thaw ground beef (at room temperature)
Correction: Thaw potentially hazardous foods by either of the following methods: 1. Under refrigeration that maintains food temperature at 41°F (45°F) 2. Completely submerged under running water at a temperature of 70°F or below with sufficient water velocity to agitate and float off loose particles in an overflow. Ready-to-eat food shall not exceed 41°F and raw animal foods shall not exceed 41°F for more than four hours 3. As part of the cooking process
- Critical: Time as a Public Health Control* (corrected on site)
Observation: No written procedures for the use of time as a public health control with potentially hazardous foods.
Correction: Provide written procedures for the use of time as a public health control. The procedures must include the following steps or practices: a. Food must be marked with the time within which it must be cooked, served or discarded. b. The food is served or discarded within four hours from the time when the food is removed from temperature control c. Food in unmarked containers or packages, or for which the time expires is discarded and d. Written procedures are maintained in the food establishment and made available to the regulatory authority upon request e. Once time is implemented as a control measure for potentially hazardous food, no other measures may be substituted.
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03/02/2016 | Routine | |
- Thawing (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Improper methods used to thaw raw chicken.
Correction: Thaw potentially hazardous foods by either of the following methods: 1. Under refrigeration that maintains food temperature at 41°F (45°F) 2. Completely submerged under running water at a temperature of 70°F or below with sufficient water velocity to agitate and float off loose particles in an overflow. Ready-to-eat food shall not exceed 41°F and raw animal foods shall not exceed 41°F for more than four hours 3. As part of the cooking process
- Critical: Food - Potentially Hazardous Food - Cold Holding* (corrected on site)
Observation: Sliced tomato cold holding at improper temperatures.
Correction: Cold hold potentially hazardous food at 41°F or below to inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria.
- Temperature Measuring Devices - Ambient Air and Water
Observation: The ambient (air/water) temperature measuring device (degrees F) located in the reach-in-cooler is not accurate.
Correction: Provide a temperature measuring device that is accurate within +/- 3 degrees Fahrenheit in the intended range of use.
- Warewashing Equipment, Determining Chemical Sanitizer Concentration
Observation: A sanitizer test kit is not being used to ensure the chemical sanitizing solution(s) are at the proper concentration.
Correction: Use a Cl Bleach chemical test kit to ensure the sanitizing solution is maintained at the proper solution.
- Critical: Handwashing Lavatory*
Observation: There is no operable handwash lavatory in the kitchen, preventing routine handwashing by food workers.
Correction: Install an additional handwash lavatory at @LOCATION@ to allow convenient use by food workers. Prior to installing additional plumbing fixtures the permit holder must apply and gain approval through the necessary regulatory agencies.
- Toilet Rooms - Enclosed
Observation: Toilet room door is not provided with a self-closing door
Correction: Provide a self-closer for the toilet room door. Completely enclosed toilet facilities minimize the potential for the spread of disease by the movement of flies and other insects between the toilet facility and food preparation areas.
- Physical Facilities in Good Repair
Observation: Cold water line is not maintained in good repair
Correction: Maintain physical facilities in good repair. Poor repair and maintenance compromises the functionality of the physical facilities.
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11/30/2015 | Routine | |
- Critical: Demonstration of Knowledge* (corrected on site)
Observation: The person in charge failed to state the required temperatures and holding times for the following conditions of potentially hazardous food: Hot holding & Reheating.
Correction: Ensure the designated person in charge (PIC) is knowledgeable about foodborne disease prevention, Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Point principles and Regulation requirements. The PIC should be prepared to recognize conditions that may contribute to foodborne illness. The PIC must also recognize conditions that fail to comply with Regulation requirements and be authorized to take the appropriate preventive and corrective actions to ensure that the Regulations' objectives are fulfilled.
- Person in Charge (corrected on site)
Observation: Employees are not aware of or are not monitoring the cook temperatures of potentially hazardous food.
Correction: Ensure that employees are properly cooking potentially hazardous food to the minimum required temperature for the specified amount of time in accordance with the Regulation. Be particularly careful in cooking those foods known to cause severe foodborne illness and death, through daily oversight of the employees' routine monitoring of the cooking temperatures.
- Critical: Eating, Drinking, or Using Tobacco* (corrected on site)
Observation: The cook is drinking from an uncovered container in the food preparation area.
Correction: Employees may drink from a closed beverage container if the container is handled to prevent contamination of (1) The employee's hands, (2) The container, and (3) Exposed food, clean equipment, utensils, and linens, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles.
- Hair Restraints - Effectiveness
Observation: Employees observed working in the food service area without proper hair restraints.
Correction: Ensure all employees wear hair restraints such as hats, hair coverings or nets, beard restraints, and clothing that covers body hair, that are designed and worn to effectively keep their hair from contacting exposed food, clean equipment, utensils and linens, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles. This section does not apply to food employees such as counter staff who only serve beverages and wrapped or packaged foods, hostesses, and wait staff if they present a minimal risk of contaminating exposed food
- Critical: Reheating for Hot Holding* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: The spaghetti sauce was not reheated to a sufficient temperature and time to eliminate pathogenic bacteria.
Correction: Rapidly reheat food for hot holding to 165°F or above within 2 hours.
- Thawing
Observation: Improper methods used to thaw raw chicken (In water at room temp)
Correction: Thaw potentially hazardous foods by either of the following methods: 1. Under refrigeration that maintains food temperature at 41°F (45°F) 2. Completely submerged under running water at a temperature of 70°F or below with sufficient water velocity to agitate and float off loose particles in an overflow. Ready-to-eat food shall not exceed 41°F and raw animal foods shall not exceed 41°F for more than four hours 3. As part of the cooking process
- Cooling Methods (corrected on site)
Observation: Food containers for cooling food are arranged so as not allow for maximum heat transfer.(Leftover sausage and ham)
Correction: Arrange the food containers in the refrigeration equipment to provide maximum heat transfer through the container walls. Loosely cover or uncover the food if protected from overhead contamination during the cooling period to facilitate heat transfer from the surface of the food.
- Sanitizing Solutions, Testing Devices (repeated violation)
Observation: There is no properly working test kit provided in the facility for monitoring the concentration of the chemical sanitizing solutions.
Correction: Obtain a Chlorine test kit so that employees can accurately monitor the concentration of the sanitizing solutions and maintain them at a safe and effective level.
- Hand Drying Provision
Observation: No disposable towels were provided at the hand washing lavatory in the Kitchen
Correction: Hand drying devices such as individual disposable paper towels, a continuous towel system that supplies the user with a clean towel or heated air hand drying device must be provided at all hand washing lavatories to encourage proper hand washing and avoid employees to drying their hands on their clothing or other unclean materials
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08/26/2015 | Routine | |
- Critical: Food - Packaged and Unpackaged - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Raw foods of animal origin stored over ready-to-eat (RTE) food in the refrigeration unit. (Ground sausage stored over ham, bologna, and tomatoes)
Correction: Separate raw foods of animal origin during storage, preparation, holding, and display from raw RTE food including foods such as fish for sushi or molluscan shellfish, or other raw RTE food such as vegetables, and cooked RTE food.
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation (corrected on site)
Observation: Wiping cloths improperly stored between use.(Not stored in sanitizer)
Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
- Sanitizing Solutions, Testing Devices
Observation: There is no properly working test kit provided in the facility for monitoring the concentration of the chemical sanitizing solutions.
Correction: Obtain a Chlorine test kit so that employees can accurately monitor the concentration of the sanitizing solutions and maintain them at a safe and effective level.
- Critical: Warewashing - Manual & Mechanical Warewashing Equipment, Chemical Sanitization - Temperature, pH, Concentration & Hardness* (corrected on site)
Observation: Chlorine sanitizing solution used was not at an acceptable concentration.(Exceeded 200 PPM in 3-compartment sink)
Correction: Adjust the chlorine sanitizing solution to a level of at least 100 parts per million when the pH is at 10 or less and the water temperature is 55°F.
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05/21/2015 | Routine | |
- Critical: Hands - When to Wash* (corrected on site)
Observation: A food employee failed to wash his or her hands before engaging in food preparation, after touching raw chicken. Employee was observed handling other food contact surfaces and utensils without washing hands.
Correction: Instruct food employees to clean their hands and exposed portions of their arms immediately before engaging in food preparation including working with exposed food, clean equipment and utensils, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles and during food preparation, as often as necessary to remove soil and contamination and to prevent cross contamination when changing task.
- Hands - Where to Wash (corrected on site)
Observation: A food employee was observed cleaning their hands in a food preparation sink or a sink used for utensil washing.
Correction: Instruct food employees to clean their hands in a handwashing lavatory. Food employees may not clean their hands in a sink used for food preparation or utensil washing.
- Critical: Reheating for Hot Holding* (corrected on site)
Observation: The Hot dog chili was not reheated to 165F within 2 hours to eliminate pathogenic bacteria. Food was placed in the warming unit after being refridgerator.
Correction: Rapidly reheat food for hot holding to 165°F or above within 2 hours.
- Critical: Time as a Public Health Control* (corrected on site)
Observation: Sausage, pork loin, and ham for which time rather than temperature is being used as a control was not labeled or otherwise marked with a 4 hour cook, serve or discard by time.
Correction: Discard food that is not cooked and served or served if ready-to-eat within 4 hours from the point in time when the food is removed from temperature control. Clearly label or otherwise mark the food with a 4-hour cook-serve or serve by time.
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02/11/2015 | Routine | |
- Hair Restraints - Effectiveness
Observation: Employees observed working in the food service area without proper hair restraints.
Correction: Ensure all employees wear hair restraints such as hats, hair coverings or nets, beard restraints, and clothing that covers body hair, that are designed and worn to effectively keep their hair from contacting exposed food, clean equipment, utensils and linens, and unwrapped single-service and single-use articles. This section does not apply to food employees such as counter staff who only serve beverages and wrapped or packaged foods, hostesses, and wait staff if they present a minimal risk of contaminating exposed food
- Critical: Food - Packaged and Unpackaged - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation* (corrected on site)
Observation: Raw foods of animal origin stored over ready-to-eat (RTE) food in the refrigeration unit.(Ground Beef stored over lettuce)
Correction: Separate raw foods of animal origin during storage, preparation, holding, and display from raw RTE food including foods such as fish for sushi or molluscan shellfish, or other raw RTE food such as vegetables, and cooked RTE food.
- Critical: Food - Potentially Hazardous Food - Cold Holding* (corrected on site)
Observation: Cut tomato cold holding at improper temperatures
Correction: Discard the food and ensure that potentially hazardous foods for cold holding are maintained at 41°F or below to inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria.
- Critical: Date Marking - Ready-to-Eat - Potentially Hazardous Food - Date Marking* (corrected on site)
Observation: The prepared ready-to-eat (RTE) Cut tomato and chili in the refrigeration unit is not properly dated for disposition.
Correction: Mark the name and "consume by" date on the container of RTE foods at the time of preparation if the food is to be held for more than 24 hours. If the food is held at 41°F or below the food shall be served or sold within 7 calendar days. Some harmful bacteria continue to grow even at refrigeration temperatures so limiting the amount of time in storage limits the amount of growth allowed for these bacteria.
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11/03/2014 | Routine | |
- Critical: Demonstration of Knowledge* (corrected on site)
Observation: The person in charge failed to state the required temperatures and holding times for the following conditions of potentially hazardous food: (3) Cooling
Correction: Ensure the designated person in charge (PIC) is knowledgeable about foodborne disease prevention, Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Point principles and Regulation requirements. The PIC should be prepared to recognize conditions that may contribute to foodborne illness. The PIC must also recognize conditions that fail to comply with Regulation requirements and be authorized to take the appropriate preventive and corrective actions to ensure that the Regulations' objectives are fulfilled.
- Person in Charge (corrected on site)
Observation: Unauthorized personnel such as children or customers in the food preparation, food storage, or warewashing areas.(Side kitchen door is being used as an entrance door to the facility)
Correction: Remove unauthorized personnel. The person in charge shall not permit persons unnecessary to the food establishment operation in the food preparation, food storage, or warewashing areas.
- Equipment - Good Repair and Proper Adjustment
Observation: Unused or non-functioning equipment not removed from the premises.(Delfield Cooler)
Correction: Remove any unused or non-functioning equipment from the premises.
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07/15/2014 | Routine | |
- Critical: Demonstration of Knowledge* (corrected on site)
Observation: The person in charge failed to explain the correct procedures for cleaning and sanitizing utensils and food-contact surfaces of equipment.
Correction: Ensure the designated person in charge (PIC) is knowledgeable about foodborne disease prevention, Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Point principles and Regulation requirements. The PIC should be prepared to recognize conditions that may contribute to foodborne illness. The PIC must also recognize conditions that fail to comply with Regulation requirements and be authorized to take the appropriate preventive and corrective actions to ensure that the Regulations' objectives are fulfilled.
- Critical: Eating, Drinking, or Using Tobacco* (corrected on site)
Observation: The kitchen staff is eating in an area other than designated break area while preparing/handling food or contacting clean food contact surfaces.
Correction: All kitchen staff who are eating must be in the designated break area away from food preparation/handling areas to prevent cross contamination.
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation
Observation: Wiping cloths improperly stored between use.
Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
- Critical: Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces and Utensils (corrected on site)
Observation: Equipment food contact surfaces/utensils were not observed cleaned between working with raw foods and ready-to-eat foods.
Correction: Clean food contact surfaces of equipment and utensils between and after uses to prevent cross contamination.
- Physical Facilities - Cleaning Frequency and Restrictions
Observation: Floors in the storage areas noted in need of cleaning.
Correction: All floors, walls, and ceilings must be cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean. Cleaning of the physical facilities is an important measure in ensuring the protection and sanitary preparation of food. A regular cleaning schedule should be established and followed to maintain the facility in a clean and sanitary manner.
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04/18/2014 | Routine | |
| No violation noted during this evaluation. | 01/13/2014 | Risk Factor | |
PIC cooperative and courteous
- Utensils - In-Use - Between-Use Storage (corrected on site)
Observation: Dispensing utensils improperly stored between uses.
Correction: Store in-use utensils or dispensing utensils in one of the following manners: 1) In the food with their handles above the top of the food and the container. 2) In food that is not potentially hazardous with their handles above the top of the food within containers or equipment that can be closed. 3) On a clean portion of the food preparation table or cooking equipment only if the in-use utensil and the food-contact surface of the food preparation table or cooking equipment are cleaned and sanitized every 4 hours. 4) In running water of sufficient velocity to flush particulates to the drain. 5) In a clean, protected location if the utensils are used only with a food that is not potentially hazardous. 6) In a container of water if the water is maintained at a temperature of at least 135°F.
- Non-Food Contact Surfaces
Observation: The nonfood contact surface of the wooden storage shelves has accumulations of grime and debris.
Correction: Clean the surface at a frequency necessary to preclude accumulation of soil residues that become encrusted or attract insects and rodents.
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10/04/2013 | Routine | |
| No violation noted during this evaluation. | 06/24/2013 | Risk Factor | |
| No violation noted during this evaluation. | 03/18/2013 | Routine | |
Discussed food safety,hot & cold prep temps,personal hygiene with-PIC courteous,helpful
No violation noted during this evaluation. | 12/14/2012 | Routine | |
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