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Licensee
Name: THE AVENUE License Number: SEA6216420
Rank: Seating License Expiration Date: 02/01/2025
Primary Status: Current Secondary Status: Active
Location Address: 330 1 AVE S
ST PETERSBURG, FL 33701

Inspection Information
Inspection Type Inspection Date Result High Priority Violations Intermediate Violations Basic Violations
Routine - Food 08/12/2019 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
23-06-4    Basic - Build-up of food debris, grease, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Handwash sink handles cook line, exterior cook equipment, soda gun holster **Warning**
36-36-4    Basic - Ceiling tile missing. Over dish area **Warning**
24-05-4    Basic - Clean glasses, cups, bowls, plates, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner. Ice buckets in side server station **Warning**
12B-07-4    Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Cook line Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers. Two door reach in cooler cook line 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. No lid cook line **Warning**
40-07-4    Basic - Employee personal items stored with or above food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Cell phone on top of case of seasoning **Warning**
24-08-4    Basic - Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. Plastic containers **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
14-11-4    Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Reach in cooler gaskets kitche, reach in cooler doors handles in disrepair, reach in freezer gasket in disrepair cook line, cutting board with cut marks and no longer cleanable and wood cutting board in bar cracked, reach in cooler shelving cook line plastic chipping, walk in cooler shelving with rust that has pitted the surface meat cooler, ice build up reach in freezer office storage room **Warning**
35B-01-4    Basic - Exterior door has a gap at the threshold that opens to the outside. Walk in cooler in back bar **Warning**
36-22-4    Basic - Floor area(s) covered with standing water. Back bar, walk in cooler **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
36-73-4    Basic - Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Kitchen Wall soiled with accumulated grease, food debris, and/or dust. Kitchen Ceiling/ceiling tiles/vents soiled with accumulated food debris, grease, dust, or mold-like substance. Cook line **Warning**
36-11-4    Basic - Floors not maintained smooth and durable. Office storage room, back bar **Warning**
08B-38-4    Basic - Food stored on floor. Pickle buckets walk in cooler, soda bag in box in side server station **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
08B-42-4    Basic - Food stored outside. Soda bag in box rack in back server station **Admin Complaint**
08A-27-4    Basic - Food stored outside. Soda bag in box stored in side server station. Room is not fully enclosed **Admin Complaint**
14-42-4    Basic - Hood filter missing from automatic fire suppression/exhaust system. Broken hood filters leaving large gaps **Warning**
36-47-5    Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease, dust or food debris. **Warning**
10-20-4    Basic - In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses. Oven- removed **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
10-12-4    Basic - In-use tongs stored on soiled surface between uses. Fire suppression system pipes, soiled fryer gasket handles **Warning**
21-04-4    Basic - In-use wiping cloth/towel used under cutting board. Under cutting board **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
14-52-4    Basic - Nonfood-contact surfaces not designed and constructed to allow easy cleaning and maintenance. Barewood shelving back bar **Warning**
29-49-5    Basic - Observed standing water in bottom of reach-in cooler. Keg cooler front bar **Warning**
35B-12-4    Basic - Perimeter walls and roofs do not effectively protect establishment against environmental cross contamination or the entrance of pests. Observed small flying insect and large amount of standing water where open roof is outside and in walk in cooler. outside bar area not fully enclosed or able to be closed up when not in use per proviso #3 from plans approved 5/8/17 **Warning**
02D-01-5    Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Squeeze bottles **Warning**
12A-04-5    High Priority - Employee handled soiled dishes or utensils and then handled clean dishes or utensils without washing hands. Dish washer **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
12A-10-4    High Priority - Employee touched bare body part and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Washed hands then wiped face with papertowels then went to grab gloves to begin engaging in food preparation. Had employee rewash hands **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
35A-02-5    High Priority - Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, or food storage area. 1 in redlined bar **Warning**
03A-02-4    High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. three door reach in cooler- cut cabbage 51°f, feta cheese 46°f, blue cheese 56°f, shredded cheese 58°f, cooked chicken 52°f, raw chicken 55°f, peeled boiled eggs 49°f two door reach in cooler- fruit Chutney 51°f, raw shell eggs 54°f, shredded cheese 47°f, raw turkey burger 47°f Two door black reach in cooler- herb butter 47°f Two door stainless- buttermilk 57°f, sour cream 56°f, cut cabbage 52°f Cook line cold hold drawers- pepperjack cheese 57°f, feta cheese 51°f, raw burger patty 60°f Placed some items in ice bath, discussed with manager proper cold holding. **Repeat Violation** **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. Bacon jam 94°f placed into water bath, butter 114°f placed onto flat top **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
01B-38-4    High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food not cooled from ambient temperature to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within four hours. See stop sale. salsa 57°f (cooling 9am temped at 12:25pm At 2:06pm salsa 59°f), salsa 67°f (cooling 9am temped at 12:30pm at 2:06pm salsa 65°f) **Warning**
03D-06-4    High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared from/mixed with ingredient(s) at ambient temperature not cooled to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 4 hours. salsa 57°f (cooling 9am temped at 12:25pm At 2:06pm salsa 59°f), salsa 67°f (cooling 9am temped at 12:30pm at 2:06pm salsa 65°f) **Warning**
22-43-4    High Priority - Quaternary ammonium sanitizer not at proper minimum strength for manual warewashing. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Less than 150ppm- manufactures states a requirement of 200ppm quaternary ammonia **Warning**
08A-05-4    High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.raw chicken over deli meat in meat walk in cooler **Warning**
08A-21-4    High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in walk-in cooler. Raw chicken over raw pork and raw tuna in meat walk in cooler **Warning**
12A-09-4    High Priority - Single-use gloves not changed as needed after changing tasks or when damaged or soiled. Handled handled and wiped face then went to engage in food preparation. Had employee wash hands **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
41-02-4    High Priority - Toxic substance/chemical stored by or with food. Case of grill cleaner on top of reach in cooler kitchen, cleaner spray bottle on rack with alcohol bottles in bar **Warning**
22-20-4    Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine. In office storage room **Warning**
22-21-4    Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance inside the ice bin. Back server station **Warning**
22-02-4    Intermediate - Accumulation of food debris/grease on food-contact surface. Fryer baskets, cutting boards stained, reach in cooler shelving kitchen **Warning**
05-05-4    Intermediate - Ambient air thermometer in holding unit not accurate within plus or minus 3 degrees Fahrenheit. Ambient thermometer 2 door black reach in cooler 22°f state thermometer reading 48°f two door black reach in cooler **Warning**
03D-15-4    Intermediate - Food being cooled by nonapproved method as evidenced by inadequate rate of cooling during time of inspection. Covered, places in cooler not maintaining Time/temperature control for safety food items at 41°d or below. **Warning**
31A-07-4    Intermediate - Handwash sink missing in warewashing or food preparation area. Inadequate in redlined bar, side server station fountain machine has scooped ice. **Warning**
31A-11-4    Intermediate - Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Used as dump sink. Observed ice in cook line handwash sink **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
02B-01-4    Intermediate - Menu does not identify which items contain raw or undercooked animal foods covered by the consumer advisory. The big tuna, smokin' hash, tuna poke chips, good morning + good night **Warning**
51-16-7    Intermediate - No plan review submitted and approved - renovations were made or are in progress. Must submit plans and plan review application to DBPR H and R Plan Review office located at 2601 Blair Stone Rd., Tallahassee, FL 32399-1011. Plans must be submitted AND approved within 30 days. Added additional ice machine in server station, removed three compartment sink bar, redlined bar not fully enclosed **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. Walk in cooler/reach in cooler **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
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