No objectionable conditions noted at time of inspection
No violation noted during this evaluation. | 03/24/2016 | Routine | |
- Critical: Hands - Preventing Contamination from Hands* (corrected on site)
Observation: Employees observed handling ready-to-eat (RTE) food with their bare hands while preparing sandwiches..
Correction: Provide suitable utensils such as deli tissue, spatulas, tongs, single-use gloves, or dispensing equipment to handle RTE food to prevent contamination from hands.
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12/28/2015 | Routine | |
- Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces, Nonfood Contact Surfaces, and Utensils (repeated violation)
Observation: Observed accumulations of dust, dirt, food residue or other debris on the following nonfood-food contact surfaces: ventalation hood
Correction: Maintain nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment clean.
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09/23/2015 | Routine | |
- Critical: Cooling* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Vegetable beef soup noted not being adequately cooled to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria. Placed into cooler the night before and had not reached required temperature the following day.
Correction: Cool potentially hazardous foods from 135°F to 70°F within 2 hours and within a total of 6 hours from 135°F to 41°F. A longer time for cooling allows an ideal situation for bacterial growth. This has been shown to be the major contributing factor in many foodborne illnesses. Voluntarily discarded by the person in charge.
- Cooling Methods
Observation: The methods used for cooling were not adequate.
Correction: Cool foods by the following methods: 1. Placing food in shallow pans 2. Separating food into smaller thinner portions 3. Using rapid chill cooling equipment 4. Stirring the food in a container placed in an ice water bath 5. Using containers that facilitate heat transfer 6. Adding ice as an ingredient 7. Any other method that can effectively accomplish cooling.
- Critical: Date Marking - Ready-to-Eat - Potentially Hazardous Food - Date Marking* (corrected on site)
Observation: The ready-to-eat (RTE) commercially processed cheese in the refrigeration unit was not properly dated for disposition after opening.
Correction: Mark a "consume by" date on commercially processed RTE foods at the time the original container is opened. 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.
- Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces, Nonfood Contact Surfaces, and Utensils (repeated violation)
Observation: Observed accumulations of dust, dirt, food residue or other debris on the following nonfood-food contact surfaces: around grill and fryers, ventilation hood
Correction: Maintain nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment clean.
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06/11/2015 | Routine | |
- Critical: Hands - When to Wash* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: A food employee failed to wash his or her hands before engaging in food preparation, after cracking raw shell eggs to touching RTE food.
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.
- Critical: Eating, Drinking, or Using Tobacco* (corrected on site)
Observation: The employees are eating in an area other than designated break area while preparing/handling food or contacting clean food contact surfaces.
Correction: All personnel who are eating must be in the designated break area away from food preparation/handling areas to prevent cross contamination.
- Critical: Hands - Preventing Contamination from Hands* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Employees observed handling ready-to-eat (RTE) toast with their bare hands.
Correction: Provide suitable utensils such as deli tissue, spatulas, tongs, single-use gloves, or dispensing equipment to handle RTE food to prevent contamination from hands.
- Critical: Food - Packaged and Unpackaged - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation* (repeated violation)
Observation: Preparation of raw food (shell eggs) conducted in a manner that may cause cross contamination of to ready-to-eat food (RTE).
Correction: Separate raw foods during storage, preparation, holding, and display from raw RTE food including other foods such as fish for sushi or molluscan shellfish, or other raw RTE food such as vegetables, and cooked RTE food.
- Critical: Cooling* (corrected on site)
Observation: Vegetable beef soup noted not being adequately cooled to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria. The soup temperature in reach in cooler prepared yesterday is reading 60 deg.
Correction: Cool potentially hazardous foods from 135°F to 70°F within 2 hours and within a total of 6 hours from 135°F to 41°F. A longer time for cooling allows an ideal situation for bacterial growth. This has been shown to be the major contributing factor in many foodborne illnesses. Voluntarily discarded.
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There are several floor mounted reach in coolers and freezers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
- Critical: Sanitizer - Criteria/Chemicals for food contact* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: The chlorine sanitizer being applied to food contact surfaces does not meet the requirements of 40 CFR 180.940. Observed chlorine concentration is above 200 ppm.
Correction: Utilize only sanitizing agent concentrations that meet the requirements of 40 CFR 180.940 when applying to food contact surfaces
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02/12/2015 | Routine | |
- Person in Charge (corrected on site)
Observation: Unauthorized personnel such as children or customers in the food preparation, food storage, or warewashing areas.
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.
- Critical: Hands - When to Wash* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: A food employee failed to wash his or her hands before engaging in food preparation, after touching bare human body parts, after coughing, sneezing, eating, after handling soiled utensils or after engaging in any activity which may have contaminated his/her 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.
- Critical: Hands - Preventing Contamination from Hands* (corrected on site)
Observation: Employees observed handling ready-to-eat (RTE) food with their bare hands. Observed employee slicing celery for chicken salad.
Correction: Provide suitable utensils such as deli tissue, spatulas, tongs, single-use gloves, or dispensing equipment to handle RTE food to prevent contamination from hands.
- Critical: Food - Packaged and Unpackaged - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation* (corrected on site)
Observation: Preparation of raw food (shell eggs) conducted in a manner that may cause cross contamination of to ready-to-eat food (RTE).
Correction: Separate raw foods during storage, preparation, holding, and display from raw RTE food including other foods such as fish for sushi or molluscan shellfish, or other raw RTE food such as vegetables, and cooked RTE food.
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There are floor mounted reach in coolers and freezers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
- Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces, Nonfood Contact Surfaces, and Utensils
Observation: Observed accumulations of dust, dirt, food residue or other debris on the following nonfood-food contact surfaces: ventilation hood.
Correction: Maintain nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment clean.
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11/13/2014 | Routine | |
- Critical: Hands - When to Wash* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: A food employee failed to wash his or her hands before engaging in food preparation, after touching bare human body parts, after coughing, sneezing, eating, after handling soiled utensils or after engaging in any activity which may have contaminated his/her 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.
- Critical: Eating, Drinking, or Using Tobacco* (corrected on site)
Observation: In use open drinking containers stored in a manner that may contaminate food, food contact surfaces or utensils.
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.
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Wiping cloths improperly stored between use.
Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There are several floor mounted reach in coolers and freezers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
- Equipment and Utensils, Air-Drying Required (corrected on site)
Observation: Food storage containers were found stacked while wet after cleaning and chemical sanitization.
Correction: Items must be allowed to drain and air-dry before being stacked or stored to allow evaporation of chemical sanitizer and moisture that may encourage microbial growth.
- Kitchenware and Tableware (corrected on site)
Observation: Cleaned and sanitized utensils not handled, displayed, or dispensed so that the food- or lip-contact surfaces are protected from contamination
Correction: Handle, display, or dispense cleaned and sanitized utensils so the food- or lip-contact surface are protected from contamination.
- Handwashing - Using a Handwashing Lavatory - No Other Purpose
Observation: The handwash station in the food prearation area is being used to clean utensils.
Correction: The handwash facility identified above is to be used for washing hands only
- Physical Facilities - Cleaning Frequency and Restrictions
Observation: The floors in the food preparation area, around and under the equipment 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.
- Critical: Sanitizer - Criteria/Chemicals for food contact* (corrected on site)
Observation: The chlorine sanitizer being applied to food contact surfaces does not meet the requirements of 40 CFR 180.940. Observed concentration is above 200 ppm.
Correction: Utilize only sanitizing agents that meet the requirements of 40 CFR 180.940 when applying to food contact surfaces
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08/28/2014 | 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 bare human body parts, after coughing, sneezing, eating, after handling soiled utensils or after engaging in any activity which may have contaminated his/her 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.
- Hair Restraints - Effectiveness (corrected on site)
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
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Wiping cloths improperly stored between use. Cholrine sanitizer is below 50 ppm.
Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
- Critical: Reheating for Hot Holding* (corrected on site)
Observation: The collards with ham was not reheated to 165F within 2 hours to eliminate pathogenic bacteria.
Correction: Rapidly reheat food for hot holding to 165°F or above within 2 hours.
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There are several floor mounted reach in coolers and freezers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
- Kitchenware and Tableware (corrected on site)
Observation: Single-service or single-use articles not handled, displayed, or dispensed so that the food- or lip-contact surfaces are protected from contamination
Correction: Handle, display, or dispense single-service and single-use articles so the food- or lip-contact surface are protected from contamination.
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05/20/2014 | Routine | |
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There are several floor mounted reach in coolers and freezers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
- Critical: Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces, Nonfood Contact Surfaces, and Utensils* (corrected on site)
Observation: The following utensils were observed soiled to sight and touch: several food storage containers.
Correction: Clean and sanitize these surfaces for food contact.
- Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces, Nonfood Contact Surfaces, and Utensils (repeated violation)
Observation: Observed accumulations of dust, dirt, food residue or other debris on the following nonfood-food contact surfaces: exhaust hood vent.
Correction: Maintain nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment clean.
- Critical: Toxics - Common Name/working Containers of Toxics* (corrected on site)
Observation: Working container (spray bottle) of sanitizer is not properly labeled.
Correction: Working containers of toxic items are to be properly labeled with contents. Identification of these containers with the common name of the material helps prevent the dangerous misuse of the contents.
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01/30/2014 | Routine | |
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
Observation: Wiping cloths improperly stored between use.
Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There are several floor mounted reach in coolers/frreezers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
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10/31/2013 | Routine | |
- Cooling Methods (corrected on site)
Observation: The methods used for cooling were not adequate.
Correction: Cool foods by the following methods: 1. Placing food in shallow pans 2. Separating food into smaller thinner portions 3. Using rapid chill cooling equipment 4. Stirring the food in a container placed in an ice water bath 5. Using containers that facilitate heat transfer 6. Adding ice as an ingredient 7. Any other method that can effectively accomplish cooling.
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There are several floor mounted reach in coolers and freezers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
- Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces, Nonfood Contact Surfaces, and Utensils (repeated violation)
Observation: Observed accumulations of dust, dirt, food residue or other debris on the following nonfood-food contact surfaces: exhaust hood filters.
Correction: Maintain nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment clean.
- Kitchenware and Tableware (corrected on site)
Observation: Cleaned and sanitized utensils not handled, displayed, or dispensed so that the food- or lip-contact surfaces are protected from contamination
Correction: Handle, display, or dispense cleaned and sanitized utensils so the food- or lip-contact surface are protected from contamination.
- Lighting, Intensity (repeated violation)
Observation: Less than 50 foot candles of light was noted in the food preparation area.
Correction: Provide at least 50 foot candles at a surface where a food employee is working with food or working with utensils or equipment such as knives, slicers, grinders, or saws where employee safety is a factor
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07/18/2013 | Routine | |
- Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation (corrected on site)
Observation: Wiping cloths improperly stored between use. Observed sanitizer is below 50 ppm chlorine.
Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There are a floor mounted reach in coolers and freezers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
- Equipment - Cutting Surfaces
Observation: The cutting board(s) along the food preparation unit are heavily scratched and scored. The food contact surface is no longer easily cleaned and sanitized due to condition.
Correction: Resurface or discard and replace the cutting boards to provide a food contact surface that is smooth, easily cleaned and sanitized.
- Lighting, Intensity
Observation: Less than 50 foot candles of light was noted in the food preparation area.
Correction: Provide at least 50 foot candles at a surface where a food employee is working with food or working with utensils or equipment such as knives, slicers, grinders, or saws where employee safety is a factor
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05/01/2013 | Routine | |
- Equipment - Fixed Equipment, Elevation or Sealing (repeated violation)
Observation: There is a floor mounted reach in coolers that are not elevated off the floor or sealed to the floor. A cleaning hazard exists.
Correction: Alter the installation of the equipment to allow easy floor cleaning. Make 1 of the following corrections: 1. Remove the equipment 2. Install casters 3. Elevate the equipment to a minimum of 6 inches off the floor 4. Seal the equipment to the floor
- Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces, Nonfood Contact Surfaces, and Utensils (repeated violation)
Observation: Observed accumulations of dust, dirt, food residue or other debris on the following nonfood-food contact surfaces: ventilation hood filters.
Correction: Maintain nonfood-contact surfaces of equipment clean.
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02/01/2013 | Routine | |
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