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Licensee
Name: FERGS SPORTS BAR & GRILLE License Number: SEA6212681
Rank: Seating License Expiration Date: 02/01/2024
Primary Status: Delinquent Secondary Status: Active
Location Address: 1320 CENTRAL AVE
ST PETERSBURG, FL 33705-1654

Inspection Information
Inspection Type Inspection Date Result High Priority Violations Intermediate Violations Basic Violations
Routine - Food 06/22/2022 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
22-20-5    Basic - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine/bin. Ice bin rusty. **Warning**
14-01-5    Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Portion cup in salt, liquor shaker used as ice scoop, **Warning**
23-24-4    Basic - Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles. Walk in cooler door handle. **Warning**
51-11-4    Basic - Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured. **Warning**
06-09-1    Basic - Commercially processed reduced oxygen packaged fish bearing a label indicating that it is to remain frozen until time of use no longer frozen and not removed from reduced oxygen package. Fish 47 degrees Fahrenheit **Warning**
28-02-4    Basic - Condensation or other drainage not disposed of according to law. Roof drainage draining onto side walk **Warning**
14-09-4    Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. Most cutting boards. **Warning**
12B-07-4    Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. 3 different food areas. Drinks were moved. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
08B-49-4    Basic - Employee personal food not properly identified and segregated from food to be served to the public. Walk in cooler **Warning**
40-06-5    Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area, food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Phones on cutting boards. Phones moved. **Warning**
08B-48-4    Basic - Employee preparing food in customer section of dining area. Pizzas for machine boxes and sliced in back dining area. **Warning**
13-04-4    Basic - Employee with no beard guard/restraint while engaging in food preparation. 1 cook **Warning**
13-03-4    Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. 1 cook **Warning**
24-08-4    Basic - Equipment and utensils not properly air-dried - wet nesting. In dish area **Warning**
14-11-4    Basic - Equipment in poor repair. **Warning**
08B-42-4    Basic - Food stored outside. Chips in boxes in un enclosed area. Chips moved. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
22-08-4    Basic - Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris. **Warning**
05-09-4    Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Reach in cooler on cook line. **Warning**
23-03-4    Basic - Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Reach in cooler gaskets, walk in cooler gaskets, door frame of walk in cooler, wire and wood shelves. **Warning**
33-16-4    Basic - Open dumpster lid. Cardboard dumpster. **Warning**
12B-13-4    Basic - Opened employee beverage container in a cold holding unit with food to be served to customers. Drinks in 3 separate coolers, walk in cooler's and a reach in cooler, drinks were moved. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
25-06-4    Basic - Single-service articles not stored inverted or protected from contamination. At wing area. **Warning**
38-08-4    Basic - Twenty (20) foot-candles of light not provided inside equipment where food is stored. In prep area. **Warning**
14-12-4    Basic - Utensils in poor condition. Reach in cooler gaskets torn, oven handle broken, **Warning**
21-09-4    Basic - Wet wiping cloths used for occasional spills on equipment food- and nonfood-contact surfaces not clean. Soiled dry wiping cloth in use. At cook line and in prep area. **Warning**
14-06-4    Basic - Wood food-contact surface not properly sealed. Shelves in prep area. **Warning**
35A-02-6    High Priority - Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. Approximately 10 flies in bar area, approximately 3 in food prep area, nothing landing on food or food contact. **Warning**
14-15-4    High Priority - Nonfood-grade containers used for food storage - direct contact with food. Pizzas cooling on cardboard box the dough came in. **Warning**
08A-02-6    High Priority - Raw animal food stored over or with ready-to-eat food in a freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Raw fish over cooked deli meat, fish moved. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
01B-13-4    High Priority - Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Ice stored in rusty ice bin **Warning**
01B-02-5    High Priority - Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. ROP salmon and mahi 47 degrees Fahrenheit not vented. **Warning**
03A-02-5    High Priority - Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Sliced cheese 63,59 degrees Fahrenheit, beef 53,58,60 degrees Fahrenheit, chicken raw 55 degrees Fahrenheit, salmon 47 degrees Fahrenheit, foods loaded from reach in cooler into walk in cooler at 11 am temped at 2 pm Cuban 48 degrees Fahrenheit, cut leafy greens 48 degrees Fahrenheit, ham 50 degrees Fahrenheit, cut leafy greens 48 degrees Fahrenheit, fish spread 48 degrees Fahrenheit, cheese shreds 46 degrees Fahrenheit, blue cheese 48 degrees Fahrenheit, ROP salmon and mahi 47 degrees Fahrenheit All foods iced down or moved to a walk in cooler. Foods re-temted at hard boiled eggs 43 degrees Fahrenheit, cut leafy greens 47 degrees Fahrenheit, cheese 50 degrees Fahrenheit, burgers 53 degrees Fahrenheit, chicken 47 degrees Fahrenheit. **Warning**
03F-02-5    High Priority - 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. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
22-02-4    Intermediate - Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Cutting boards, reach in coolers, reach in cooler racks soiled. **Warning**
27-19-4    Intermediate - Handwash sink does not have enough water pressure to properly wash hands. Ladies room upstairs bar **Warning**
31A-11-4    Intermediate - Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Hand washing sink used as dump sink at server station hand washing sink. Issue was corrected, servers continued to use the hand washing sink as dump sink. Inspector re-educated servers. **Warning**
31B-02-4    Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Server area. **Warning**
02C-04-5    Intermediate - Operator is not properly tracking/marking the number of days ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite was held at refrigeration temperatures prior to freezing in order to properly date mark the food when it is thawed and held at refrigeration temperatures again. Cooked beef not time tracked. **Warning**
41-17-4    Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled. Blue liquid, bottle of oil for compressor not labeled, **Warning**
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