Each week, we intend to bring you a list of 5 restaurants with the largest number of health inspection violations. Here is this week’s lineup of top offenders, whose violations included a lot of live insects in the kitchen, employees not washing their hands, and food stored at unsafe temperatures.
Ew…Gross
Fatballs Sports Bars And Grill (7457 103 Rd St # 7)
Inspection date: 5/12/2016
Total: 27 (High: 4, Intermediate: 11, Basic: 12)
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 outside put on gloves and started moving foods in walk in cooler, explained to employee and he washed hands **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
High Priority – Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, or food storage area. One at cook line area **Warning**
High Priority – Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw bacon in container on shelf above sauce bottles, prep reach in cooler, employee placed it on bottom, raw shelled eggs on top of tortillas in walk in cooler **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
High Priority – Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb. Mop sink **Warning**
Athens Cafe (6271 St Augustine Rd #7)
Inspection date: 5/9/2016
Total: 26 (High: 7, Intermediate: 7, Basic: 12)
High Priority – Evidence of mop/cleaning wastewater dumped onto ground. Employee stated that they dump old dirty mop water out back behind building on the ground, not in mop sink. Explained regulation regarding wastewater dumping. **Warning**
High Priority – Improper sewage disposal at floor drains in kitchen and/or food preparation area. Drain under dish machine not able to maintain flow of dirty water from dish machine. Causing dish machine to drain on floor and flows across the floor to another drain in kitchen approximately eight feet away. Dump station at dish machine has hose attached to it that drains directly on the floor. The dirty water then runs approximately five feet to the nearest floor drain. Observed employees walking through the water. Operator contacted plumber, drains were flushed and water from dish machine is properly draining into floor drain under dish machine. Operator moved employee dump sink so it drains directly into dump sink at dish machine. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
High Priority – Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, or food storage area. Approximately 10-15 flies in dish machine area. Approximately 3-5 flies at make table near back door area. **Warning**
High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Stand up reach in cooler near dry storage area ambient temperature 63° – ; Butter (80°F); feta (57°); butter blend (62°) Manager discarded items. **Warning**
High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Lemon cream sauce (102°F – Hot Holding); cooked chicken (103°F – Hot Holding); Chicken soup 100°-137° manager stirred all products to disperse heat. **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
High Priority – Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in reach-in cooler. Raw pork stored over RTE cooked pasta and raw chicken stored over RTE parsley inside refrigerator on cooks line. **Warning**
High Priority – Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse. Stand up reach in cooler near dry storage area ambient temperature 63° – ; Butter (80°F); feta (57°); butter blend (62°) **Warning**
Bubba’s Seafood And Steaks (1965 S Lane Ave)
Inspection date: 5/13/2016
Total: 25 (High: 6, Intermediate: 7, Basic: 12)
High Priority – Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly. 0 ppm **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. Pushing cooked shrimp with fingers to plate, got tongs **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
High Priority – Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Not properly working **Warning**
High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 56° sour cream, cream cheese, coleslaw, seafood dip/dairy, in reach in cooler, server area, mgr placed them in other cooler, cheese cake discarded **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
High Priority – Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse. Souter cream **Warning**
High Priority – Wiping cloth sanitizer solution exceeds the maximum concentration allowed. 300 ppm chl in bucket, server area **Warning**
Uncle Genes Soul & Seafood Cafe (5123-4 Timuquana Rd)
Inspection date: 5/10/2016
Total: 25 (High: 5, Intermediate: 9, Basic: 11)
High Priority – Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Washed and rinsed container to put food in it, explained to employee **Warning**
High Priority – Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, or food storage area. Two by triple sink drain **Warning**
High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 43-48° raw meatloaf and cooked oxtail in prep unit, mgr placed meatloaf in deeper pan, and removed one pan for cooked oxtail -was double pan- 60° dressing by steam table, explained time as public health control, mgr wrote time on and added to procedure **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. 105° cooked cabbage above steam table, mgr wrote time and added it to time as public health control **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
High Priority – Toxic substance/chemical improperly stored. Degreaser by clean dishes, mgr removed it **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
Pita King 2 (1126 Edgewood N Ave)
Inspection date: 5/11/2016
Total: 22 (High: 7, Intermediate: 5, Basic: 10)
High Priority – Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Knife washed and rinsed, explained to him, placed back in triple sink for when they set up sanitizer **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 50-52° raw chicken, coleslaw, cut cabbage, phili meat, cold cut, cooked livers and gizzards, can salmon mix, cheeses, in walk in cooler **Warning**
High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. 128-132° grits on flat grill/off, employee reheated it on stove, 125° cooked hamburgers on grill/off, employee reheated them on stove , 88° cooked chicken and pork on table, employee wrote them on tim as public health control procedure and wrote down time, **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
High Priority – Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw pork chop on shelf above fries, reach in cooler, employee rearranged **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
High Priority – Shell eggs held in a unit maintaining an ambient air temperature greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit. 57° raw eggs in walk in cooler **Warning**
High Priority – Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse. Can salmon, coleslaw, etc **Warning**
High Priority – Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb or on fitting/splitter added to hose bibb. Triple sink faucet **Warning**