- Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Exterior of cooking equipment and shelving next to fryer. **Warning**
- Basic - Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Under kitchen equipment. **Warning**
- Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease. Hoods over hibachi grills and hood in kitchen. **Warning**
- Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated grease. Behind cooking equipment. **Warning**
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07/28/2014 | Complaint Full | Call Back - Complied |
- Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Exterior of cooking equipment and shelving next to fryer. **Warning**
- Basic - Case of single-service articles stored on floor in dry storage area/kitchen/wait station. To-go food containers. **Warning**
- Basic - Dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers. Hibachi grill, dining area, and kitchen. **Warning**
- Basic - Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Under kitchen equipment. **Warning**
- Basic - Food stored on floor. Bags of onions. **Warning**
- Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease. Hoods over hibachi grills and hood in kitchen. **Warning**
- Basic - In-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Whisk at fry station and scoops on cookline. **Warning**
- Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Multiple coolers. **Warning**
- Basic - Open dumpster lid. **Warning**
- Basic - Wall in disrepair. Dish area. **Warning**
- Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated grease. Behind cooking equipment. **Warning**
- 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. Chlorine at 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. Employee preparing sushi with bare hands. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
- High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Seafood holding at 47°F. in sushi display case. Corrective Action: operator placed all potentially hazardous foods into proper refrigeration. **Warning**
- 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. Sushi rice. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
- High Priority - Raw animal food stored over cooked food. Raw seafood stored over cooked rice in cookline cooler. **Warning**
- High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in freezer - all products not commercially packaged. Raw chicken stored over raw seafood. **Warning**
- Intermediate - Cold holding equipment incapable of maintaining potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food at proper temperatures. Do not store potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food in this unit until the unit is capable of maintaining foods at 41 degrees Fahrenheit or colder. Sushi display case holding at 47°F. **Warning**
- Intermediate - Ice chute soiled/build up of mold-like substance/slime. At waitstation soda fountain. **Warning**
- Intermediate - No probe thermometer provided to measure temperature of food products. Need 0-220°F. **Warning**
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5/27/2014 | Complaint Full | Warning Issued |
- Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Exterior of cooking equipment. **Warning**
- Basic - Build-up of soil/debris on the floor along the walls, baseboards, cabinets and/or equipment. Kitchen and sushi bar areas. **Warning**
- Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease. **Warning**
- Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Multiple coolers. **Warning**
- Basic - Soil residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface. Exterior of ice chute at drink station. **Warning**
- Basic - Wall in disrepair. Dish area. **Warning**
- Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated grease. Cookline. **Warning**
- High Priority - Raw animal food stored over cooked food. Raw seafood stored over cooked rice in cookline cooler. **Warning**
- High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in freezer - all products not commercially packaged. **Warning**
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5/13/2014 | Routine - Food | Call Back - Complied |
- Basic - Accumulation of debris on exterior of warewashing machine. **Warning**
- Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle stored in food. Sugar, rice. **Warning**
- Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Inside cabinets under hibatchi grills. **Warning**
- Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Exterior of cooking equipment. **Warning**
- Basic - Build-up of soil/debris on the floor along the walls, baseboards, cabinets and/or equipment. Kitchen and sushi bar areas. **Warning**
- Basic - Debris/dust/soil residue on waitstation storage shelves. **Warning**
- Basic - Dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers. Kitchen. **Warning**
- 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. Cookline and sushi bar. **Warning**
- Basic - Food stored in a prohibited area. Bags of wasabi powder stored with chemicals in cabinet under sushi bar handsink. **Warning**
- Basic - Food-contact surface not cleaned and sanitized between contact with different raw animal products. Cook using same tongs to handle raw beef and chicken. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
- Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease. **Warning**
- Basic - In-use rice scoop/spoon stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
- Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Multiple coolers. **Warning**
- Basic - Nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair. Lid to chest freezer falling apart. **Warning**
- Basic - Soil residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface. Exterior of ice chute at drink station. **Warning**
- Basic - Soiled reach-in cooler and freezer gaskets. Cookline. **Warning**
- Basic - Walk-in cooler floor soiled. **Warning**
- Basic - Walk-in cooler shelves soiled with encrusted debris. **Warning**
- Basic - Walk-in cooler shelves with rust that has pitted the surface. **Warning**
- Basic - Wall in disrepair. Dish area. **Warning**
- Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated food debris. Sushi bar. **Warning**
- Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated grease. Cookline. **Warning**
- Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Flour and sugar on cookline. **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. Server touching cut lemons used for drinks with bare hands. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
- High Priority - Raw animal food stored over cooked food. Raw seafood stored over cooked rice in cookline cooler. **Warning**
- High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. Raw shell eggs stored over sprouts and butter. **Warning**
- High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in reach-in freezer - all products not commercially packaged. **Warning**
- High Priority - Wiping cloth sanitizer solution exceeds the maximum concentration allowed. Chlorine over 200 ppm in bucket at sushi bar. **Warning**
- Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Dish area. **Warning**
- Intermediate - Proof of required state approved employee training not available for some employees. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR's contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233. **Warning**
- Intermediate - Soil residue in food storage containers. Flour bin on cookline. **Warning**
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3/13/2014 | Routine - Food | Warning Issued |
- Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Outsides of cook line equipment.
- Basic - Build-up of soil/debris on the floor along the walls, baseboards, cabinets and/or equipment.
- Basic - Dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers. Kitchen.
- 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. Cook line.
- Basic - Nonfood-grade plastic to-go/thank you bags used in direct contact to store food. Reach in freezers
- Basic - Wall in disrepair. Dish area
- Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated grease. Cook line
- High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. Raw eggs stored over margarine.
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7/31/2013 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
- Critical - Employee training certificates are expired. Safe Staff.
- Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. Racks in walk in cooler are rusted.
- Light not functioning. Walk in cooler
- Critical - No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees. Dish area
- Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Cabinets under hibachi grills.
- Observed build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Outsides of cooking equipment and shelving under cooking equipment
- Observed in-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Scoops at rice station
- Critical - Observed interior of microwave soiled. Cookline
- Observed wall in disrepair. Dish area
- Observed wall soiled with accumulated grease. Behind cooking equipment
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12/5/2012 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
- Violation: 14-37-1 Observed cutting board grooved/pitted and no longer cleanable.
- Violation: 14-41-1 Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. racks in walk in cooler are rusted
- Violation: 23-03-1 Observed build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. shelving next to fryer
- Violation: 23-06-1 Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. cabinets under hibatchi grills
- Critical - Violation: 32-15-1 No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees. dish area
- Violation: 37-03-1 Observed wall in disrepair. dish area
- Violation: 37-06-1 Observed wall soiled with accumulated grease. behind cookline cooking equipment
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7/12/2012 | Routine - Food | Call Back - Complied |
- Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. racks in walk in cooler are rusted
- Critical - No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees. dish area
- Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. cabinets under hibatchi grills
- Observed build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. shelving next to fryer
- Observed cutting board grooved/pitted and no longer cleanable.
- Critical - Observed food stored on floor. onions
- Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. chicken and rice holding at 45 degrees F. in walk in cooler. This violation must be corrected by : 7/12/12.
- Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. raw beef and seafood over sauces in cookline cooler
- Critical - Observed the presence of ants in container of sugar. Corrected On Site. operator discarded product
- Observed wall in disrepair. dish area
- Observed wall soiled with accumulated grease. behind cookline cooking equipment
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7/11/2012 | Routine - Food | Warning Issued |
- Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils.
- Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. inside cabinets under hibatchi grills
- Critical - Observed buildup of slime in the interior of ice machine.
- Critical - Observed container of medicine improperly stored. with foods on storage shelf
- Observed leaking pipe at plumbing fixture. near three compartment sink
- Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. raw eggs over batter in cookline cooler
- Observed single-service articles handled, displayed, or dispensed in a manner that allows for contamination. unwrapped drink straws handled with bare hands
- Observed wall soiled with accumulated grease. behind fryer
- Critical - Raw animal food not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. walk in cooler
- Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. flour, sugar
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2/16/2012 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
- Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. racks in walk in cooler are rusted
- Critical - Observed buildup of soiled material on racks in the walk in cooler.
- Observed dusty ceiling tiles and/or air conditioning vent covers. kitchen
- Critical - Observed food stored on floor. onions
- Observed in-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. rice scoop
- Observed nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair. fans in kitchen missing guards
- Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. cookline and walk in cooler
- Observed reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair. turboair unit
- Critical - Observed soil buildup inside ice machine bin.
- Critical - Observed toxic item stored by food. dry food shelves
- Observed wall and piping soiled with accumulated grease. behind cookline equipment
- Observed wall soiled with accumulated debris. dish area and sushi station
- Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. flour
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7/18/2011 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
- Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions. sushi station. Corrected On Site.
- Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. cabinets under hibatchi grills
- Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. unused cooler on cookline
- Observed detergent and sanitizer mixed together improperly and used for wiping cloths. Corrected On Site.
- Observed nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair. fans in kitchen are missing guards
- Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. reach in cooler
- Observed reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair.
- Observed soda gun holster with accumulated slime/debris. Corrected On Site.
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3/14/2011 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
- Critical. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. flour and sugar on cookline
- Critical. Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. raw seafood in cookline cooler
- Critical. Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. raw eggs and seafood in walkin cooler
- Critical. Observed improper use of bowl/plastic food container or other container with no handle used to dispense ready-to-eat food. bowl used to scoop flour and sugar on cookline
- Observed gaskets/seals on cold holding unit in poor repair. reachin cooler
- Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. racks in walkin cooler are rusted
- Critical. Observed soil residue in/on storage containers. flour on cookline
- Observed build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. cooking equipment
- Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. shelving at waitstation
- Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. cabinets under habatchi grills
- Critical. Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions. kitchen. Corrected On Site.
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10/7/2010 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
- Critical. Observed shipper's tag/invoice lacking required information for seafood used for sushi. "Performance Food Sevice Empire"
- Critical. Potentially hazardous food held under time as a public health control without time marking indicating 4-hour limit. sushi rice
- Critical. Observed improper vertical separation of raw animal foods. raw chicken stored above raw beef in walkin cooler.
- Critical. Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. seafood in cookline cooler, walkin cooler and reachin cooler
- Critical. Observed food stored on floor. walkin cooler
- Critical. Observed food employee wearing jewelry other than a plain ring on their hands/arms while preparing food. female sushi preparer wearing braclet and watch
- Observed employee with no hair restraint engaged in food preparation. male sushi preparer
- Critical. Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength.
- Observed build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. shelving and equipment around fryer
- Observed build-up of food debris on nonfood-contact surface. cabinets under habatchi grills in dining area
- Observed wall soiled with accumulated grease. behind fryer on cookline
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6/24/2010 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
- Critical. Observed food stored on floor.
- Observed employee with no hair restraint.
- Critical. Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times.
- Critical. Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions.
- Critical. Handwashing cleanser lacking at handwashing lavatory.sushi bar Corrected On Site.
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2/10/2010 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
- Critical. Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on site and held more than 24 hours with not properly date marked.
- Critical. No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit. 2dr bx on kitchen line
- Critical. Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.
- Critical. Observed food stored on floor.wain
- Critical. Observed bare hand contact of ready-to-eat food by employees and establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure in effect. Corrected On Site.
- Observed employee with no hair restraint.
- Observed equipment in poor repair.exsed insulation chest freezer
- Critical. Chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength for manual warewashing.
- Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
- Critical. Observed interior of microwave soiled.
- Observed wall soiled with accumulated food debris. by oil fryer
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11/10/2009 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
| No report available. | 5/4/2009 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
| No report available. | 11/12/2008 | Routine - Food | Inspection Completed - No Further Action |
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