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Licensee
Name: TOP'S CHINA BUFFET License Number: SEA3912263
Rank: Seating License Expiration Date: 02/01/2021
Primary Status: Closed Secondary Status: Change Owner Pending
Location Address: 1528 W BRANDON BLVD
BRANDON, FL 33511

Inspection Information
Inspection Type Inspection Date Result High Priority Violations Intermediate Violations Basic Violations
Complaint Full 11/07/2016 Follow-up Inspection Required
Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
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Violations:
A summary of the violations found during the inspection are listed below. The department cites violations of Florida's sanitation and safety laws, which are based on the standards of U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Code. High Priority violations are those which could contribute directly to a foodborne illness or injury and include items such as cooking, reheating, cooling and hand-washing. Intermediate violations are those which, if not addressed, could lead to risk factors that contribute to foodborne illness or injury. These violations include personnel training, documentation or record keeping and labeling. Basic violations are those which are considered best practices to implement. While most establishments correct all violations in a timely manner (often during the inspection), the division's procedures are designed to compel compliance with all violations through follow-up visits, administration action or closure when necessary.
Violation    Observation
08B-44-4    Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in kitchen. Container of raw chicken and box of raw fish. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
08B-45-4    Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler/freezer. Foods stored on floor of walk in cooler as well as walk in freezer. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
12B-12-4    Basic - Employee beverage container in a food preparation/clean dishware area does not have a lid and a straw or equivalent dispensing mechanism to prevent hand contact with lip contact area of drink container. Employee drinks on prep table in back with no lids nor straws . **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
12B-07-4    Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Employee drink on prep table with no lids nor straw . **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
24-08-4    Basic - Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
35B-01-4    Basic - Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside. At back screen door to kitchen . **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
36-22-4    Basic - Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Under dish washer and under reach in coolers on cooks line . **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
08B-28-4    High Priority - Basic - Food prepared with soiled equipment/utensil. Cut cucumbers wiped with used wiping clothe , see stop sale. **Warning**
23-07-4    Basic - Gaskets with slimy/mold-like build-up. Reach in coolers on cooks line . **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
10-20-4    Basic - In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
21-04-4    Basic - In-use wet wiping cloth/towel used under cutting board. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
08B-13-4    Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in cooler. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
21-12-4    Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
01B-01-4    High Priority - Dented/rusted cans present. See stop sale. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
12A-07-4    High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before changing gloves and/or putting on gloves to work with food. Observed employee cutting cucumbers putting gloves on with no hand washing . **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
09-01-4    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. Observed employee prepping cumbers for sushi with bare hands and then wiping cut cucumbers with wet wiping cloth. See stop sale **Warning**
01B-12-4    High Priority - Food contaminated by employees/consumers and operator continued to serve food. See stop sale. Observed employee with out gloves wiping cut cumbers wth used wiping cloth . **Warning**
03F-02-4    High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking and the time removed from temperature control cannot be determined. See stop sale. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
01B-17-4    High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food required to be date marked is not date marked and time of opening/preparation cannot be determined. See stop sale. White rice . **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
22-05-4    Intermediate - Cutting board(s) stained/soiled. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
31A-02-4    Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use due to being blocked by garbage can. In back prep area . COS , manager removed garbage can at time of inspection. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
22-16-4    Basic - Intermediate - Reach-in cooler shelves soiled with food debris. On cooks line . **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
02C-02-4    Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Noodles held over 24 hrs with no date mark, egg rolls held over 24 hrs with no date mark. In walk in cooler. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
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