Valley View Penn Station Restaurant, 4760-20 Valley View Boulevard Nw, Roanoke, VA 24012 - Full Service Restaurant inspection findings and violations



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Restaurant: Valley View Penn Station Restaurant
Address: 4760-20 Valley View Boulevard Nw, Roanoke, VA 24012
Type: Full Service Restaurant
Phone: 540 400-7732
Total inspections: 7
Last inspection: 04/23/2015

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Inspection findings

Inspection date

Type

All previous violations corrected
No violation noted during this evaluation.
04/23/2015Routine
Employees must ensure that the sandwiches reach at least 165 degrees F when they are not using gloves to handle food. Manager refused to review or sign inspection report with Environmental Health Specialist. Copy of complaint, and inspection given.
  • Critical: Hands - Preventing Contamination from Hands* (repeated violation)
    Observation: Employees observed handling ready-to-eat (RTE) food 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.
  • Food Storage Containers - Identified with Common Name of Food
    Observation: Unlabeled food containers.
    Correction: Label working containers with the common name of its contents. Consumers may be allergic to certain foods or ingredients. The mistaken use of an ingredient when the consumer has requested that it not be used may result in severe medical consequences. Liquid foods and granular foods may resemble cleaning compounds. The mistaken use of food from an unlabeled container could result in chemical poisoning.
  • Critical: Food - Potentially Hazardous Food - Hot Holding*
    Observation: marinara sauce hot holding at improper temperatures.
    Correction: Rapidly reheat the food to 165°F and maintain at 135°F or above through the hot holding period.
  • Critical: Food - Potentially Hazardous Food - Cold Holding* (corrected on site)
    Observation: Cold cuts cold holding at improper temperatures
    Correction: Relocate food to a refrigeration unit that is capable of maintaining food storage at 41°F or below.
  • Temperature Measuring Devices (repeated violation)
    Observation: There was no workin temperature measuring device located in the prep unit at the hand sink and prep unit at the end of the line.
    Correction: Provide a temperature measuring device in all hot or cold holding equipment used to store potentially hazardous foods so that employees can routinely monitor the ambient air temperature.
  • Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces, Nonfood Contact Surfaces, and Utensils
    Observation: Observed accumulations of encrusted grease deposits or other soil on the following food contact surfaces: soft drink nozzle
    Correction: Clean and sanitize these surfaces for food contact.
04/17/2015Routine
  • 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.
  • Temperature Measuring Devices (repeated violation)
    Observation: The temperature measuring device in the 3 door reach in was not properly located in the warmest part of the unit and is broken.
    Correction: Replace and Relocate the temperature measuring device to the warmest part of the refrigeration unit to properly represent the ambient air temperature.
  • Handwashing - Using a Handwashing Lavatory (repeated violation)
    Observation: The handwashing facility located at the prep area is blocked, preventing access by employees for easy handwashing.
    Correction: Access to the handwashing facility identified above is to be available during all hours of operation. Remove the wiping cloth preventing its use.
10/20/2014Routine
Supply additional tongs for use with the deli meats and gloves for handling ready to eat foods.
  • Critical: Demonstration of Knowledge* (corrected on site)
    Observation: The person in charge failed to state the minimum cook temperatures and times for potentially hazardous food.
    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: Hands - Preventing Contamination from Hands*
    Observation: Employees observed handling ready-to-eat (RTE) food 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* (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
    Observation: Preparation of raw food 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.
  • Utensils - In-Use - Between-Use Storage
    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.
04/08/2014Routine
replace paper towel dispenser in front. Supply gloves for handling ready to eat foods and prevent cross contamination.
  • Critical: Food - Packaged and Unpackaged - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation*
    Observation: Preparation of raw food 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. Use separate spatula for raw chicken and beef from the ones used on ready to eat deli meats.
  • Critical: Food - Potentially Hazardous Food - Cold Holding* (corrected on site)
    Observation: Raw chicken and turkey in top prep 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
    Observation: The temperature measuring device in the 2 door and 3 door reach in refrigerators was not properly located in the warmest part of the unit and is no longer accurate..
    Correction: Relocate the temperature measuring device to the warmest part of the refrigeration unit to properly represent the ambient air temperature.
  • Handwashing - Using a Handwashing Lavatory
    Observation: The handwashing facility located at the dish area is blocked, preventing access by employees for easy handwashing.
    Correction: Access to the handwashing facility identified above is to be available during all hours of operation. Remove the trash can, dishes and wiping cloths preventing its use.
10/03/2013Routine
Facility must meet labeling requirements of 12 VAC 5-421-765, and 900, and 21 CFR 101.17 prior to selling jugs of lemonade.
Keep cooling charts for potatoes for one week to ensure that they are cooled from 135 to 70 within 2 hours and 70 to 41 F within 4 additional hours.
Use separate and different spatulas for raw chicken to prevent cross contamination with deli meats.
ISSUE PERMIT

No violation noted during this evaluation.
05/16/2013Routine
  • Food Storage Containers - Identified with Common Name of Food
    Observation: Unlabeled food containers.
    Correction: Label working containers with the common name of its contents. Consumers may be allergic to certain foods or ingredients. The mistaken use of an ingredient when the consumer has requested that it not be used may result in severe medical consequences. Liquid foods and granular foods may resemble cleaning compounds. The mistaken use of food from an unlabeled container could result in chemical poisoning.
  • Hand Drying Provision
    Observation: No continuous towel system that supplies the user with a clean towel has been provided.
    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
05/14/2013Pre-Opening

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