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Licensee
Name: BIG APPLE BUFFET II License Number: SEA6217537
Rank: Seating License Expiration Date: 02/01/2022
Primary Status: Ownership Changed Secondary Status:
Location Address: 1035 62 AVE N
ST. PETERSBURG, FL 33702

Inspection Information
Inspection Type Inspection Date Result High Priority Violations Intermediate Violations Basic Violations
Complaint Full 06/28/2018 Facility Temporarily Closed
Operations ordered stopped until violations are corrected.
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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
14-01-4    Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Ice- put new scoop at ice bin **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
23-25-4    Basic - Build-up of grease/dust/debris on hood filters. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
36-03-4    Basic - Cove molding at floor/wall juncture broken/missing. Kitchen **Warning**
35A-03-4    Basic - Dead roaches on premises. 6 in right sushi cabinet, 4 in left sushi cabinet, 5 in fruit buffet cabinet, 3 in cold seafood buffet cabinet, 5 salad buffet cabinet, 1 dessert buffet cabinet, 1 hot seafood buffet cabinet, 4 in hot chicken buffet cabinet, 17 in hot vegetable buffet cabinet, 21 in soup buffet cabinet, 13 in beef/rice buffet cabinet, 10 in hibachi buffet cabinet **Warning**
24-08-4    Basic - Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. Cups **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
35B-08-4    Basic - Fly sticky tape hanging over food/food preparation area/food-contact equipment. Prep area- removed **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
08B-38-4    Basic - Food stored on floor. Ginger in sushi station, salt in kitchen. Moved off floor **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
10-17-4    Basic - In-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment. Reach in coolers **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
10-07-4    Basic - In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Spatulas 129°f **Warning**
12B-13-4    Basic - Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers. **Warning**
24-11-4    Basic - Salad bar/buffet plates/bowls not properly protected or inverted to prevent contamination. Plates inverted **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
08B-14-4    Basic - Stored food not covered in walk-in freezer. Crab Rangoon, covered. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
29-11-4    Basic - Water leaking from pipe and/or faucet/handle. Handwash sink dish area **Warning**
22-48-4    High Priority - Establishment using a sanitizer solution that does not meet the requirements specified in 40 CFR 180. Only use single-service items to serve food to customers until approved sanitizer is available for warewashing. Not labeled for use on food contact surfaces. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
35A-02-5    High Priority - Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, or food storage area. 3 drain area front server station, 4 by three compartment sink, 1 on cart in storage, 1 flying insect on cookline. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
03A-02-4    High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. tofu 44°f, cooked fish 49°f, raw fish 45°f, cooked shrimp 44°f, peeled shrimp 35-46°f, been sprouts 39-54°f, cut cabbage 43-61°f, cooked noodles 40-45°f, reconstituted rice noodles 42-50°f, crabstick 39-54°f, cooked shrimp 44°f **Admin Complaint**
03B-01-5    High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. butter potatoes 98-158°f, chicken wings 135°-162°f, plantains 106°f, Cooked chicken 115°f, sweet and sour chicken 100-169°f **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
08A-05-4    High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw shell eggs over green onions in reach in cooler on cook line- rearranged **Warning**
08A-22-4    High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in cooler. Raw chicken over raw beef. Rearranged **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
08A-17-5    High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in walk-in freezer - all products not commercially packaged. Raw beef over plantains. **Warning**
35A-05-4    High Priority - Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. 3 in in box with gloves in right sushi cabinet cabinet, 5 in aluminum foil box in right sushi cabinet, 3 in package of shakers in right sushi cabinet cabinet, 12 in right sushi cabinet, 16 in left sushi cabinet, 2 in hibachi buffet cabinet, 1 on wheel reach in cooler hibachi station, 2 on cove molding behind reach in cooler cook line, 1 cove molding by handwash sink in prep area, 1 white roach in dry storage room called for professional pest control **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
35A-23-4    High Priority - Roach excrement and/or droppings present. Buffet cabinets, 5 egg sacs in hibachi buffet cabinet **Warning**
31A-03-4    Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use due to items stored in the sink. Cutting board in hibachi station- removed **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
16-35-4    Intermediate - No chlorine chemical test kit provided when using chlorine sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine. **Warning**
31B-02-4    Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Dish area **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
02C-02-4    Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite/commercially processed and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Milk and items in reach in cooler/walk in cooler **Warning**
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