Morales Cuban Restaurant, 3492 Tamiami Trl, Unit A-B, Port Charlotte, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: MORALES CUBAN RESTAURANT
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 3492 Tamiami Trl, Unit A-B, Port Charlotte, FL 33952
License #: 1801506
Total inspections: 2
Last inspection: 6/16/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Interior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. Multiple units. **Warning**
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Waitstation. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Interior of reach-in coolers and freezers soiled with accumulation of food residue. Kitchen area. **Warning**
6/16/2014Complaint FullCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Exterior of cooking equipment, food containers and shelving on cookline. **Warning**
  • Basic - Build-up of grease/dust/debris on hood filters. **Warning**
  • Basic - Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured. Behind bar. **Warning**
  • Basic - Case of single-service articles stored on floor in dry storage area/kitchen/wait station. Napkins at waitstion. **Warning**
  • Basic - Clean equipment and utensils not separated from soiled equipment and utensils at warewashing area. Dirty dishes stored next to clean dishes on clean dish rack. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee wearing jewelry other than a plain ring on their hands/arms while preparing food. Cook wearing a watch. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Cook. **Warning**
  • Basic - Equipment and utensils not washed, rinsed and sanitized in the correct order in three-compartment sink. Do not use dishes/equipment not properly sanitized. Soap in middle sink at bar. **Warning**
  • Basic - Floor tiles missing. Dish area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Interior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. Multiple units. **Warning**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Multiple coolers. **Warning**
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Waitstation. **Warning**
  • Basic - Outer openings not protected during operation and vermin and/or environmental cross contamination present. Back door to kitchen left open during operating hours and flies are present in kitchen. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated food debris. Behind food prep table. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands - food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Cook cutting tomatoes with bare hands. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Live flies in kitchen. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over cooked food. Raw shell eggs stored over cooked beans in 3 door cooler. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit. Raw chicken stored over raw pork in hotpoint unit. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Small flying insects in bar area. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Warewashing sanitizing solution exceeding the maximum concentration allowed. Chlorine over 200 ppm at bar 3 compartment sink. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Food-contact surfaces encrusted with grease and/or soil deposits. Fryer baskets. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Bar handsink filled with bottle caps. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Interior of reach-in coolers and freezers soiled with accumulation of food residue. Kitchen area. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Manager lacking proof of food manager certification and no other certified food service manager employed at this location. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No chlorine chemical test kit provided when using chlorine sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Cookline, dish and bar areas. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No probe thermometer provided to measure temperature of food products. Need 0-220°F. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No soap provided at handwash sink. Bar. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Slicer blade guard soiled with old food debris. **Warning**
4/15/2014Complaint FullWarning Issued

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