Brusco Italian Restaurant, 1380 S Federal Hwy, Deerfield Beach, FL - Pizza inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: Brusco Italian Restaurant
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 1380 S Federal Hwy, Deerfield Beach, FL 33441-7249
License #: 1601683
Total inspections: 16
Last inspection: 10/08/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • 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. **Warning**
  • Basic - Food stored on floor. Onions at walkin cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Lights in food preparation, food storage or warewashing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. In kitchen area and dry storage room. **Warning**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit.cookline flip top cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Dishwashing area and both restrooms. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw chicken over cheese sticks at reachin freezer. Raw fish over veggies and raw chicken over cheese at walkin cooler. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Ambient air thermometer in holding unit not accurate within plus or minus 3 degrees Fahrenheit. At walkin cooler **Warning**
  • Marked exit/path to marked exit blocked. For reporting purposes only. Back exit door. **Warning**
10/08/2014Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Coffee filters not stored in a protected manner to prevent contamination. Uncovered in dry storage room. **Warning**
  • Basic - Dead roaches on premises. 1 dead roach by 3 compartment sink. **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. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. **Warning**
  • Basic - Food storage container cracked or broken. In dishwashing area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Food stored on floor. Onions at walkin cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Lights in food preparation, food storage or warewashing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. In kitchen area and dry storage room. **Warning**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit.cookline flip top cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Dishwashing area and both restrooms. **Warning**
  • Basic - Standing water in handwash sink/ handwash sink draining very slowly. In dishwashing area. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cheese 49° F, eggs 49° F, sausage 49° Fchocken 49° F, ham 49° F, butter 49° F all at walkin cooler. All foods moved to working cooler. Corrective action taken. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw chicken over cheese sticks at reachin freezer. Raw fish over veggies and raw chicken over cheese at walkin cooler. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Ambient air thermometer in holding unit not accurate within plus or minus 3 degrees Fahrenheit. At walkin cooler **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Encrusted material on can opener blade. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use due to items stored in the sink. Bucket inside HANDWASH sink in dishwashing area. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food covered while cooling. Cooked pasta at 49° F, cooling overnight. Discarded. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Walkin cooler not 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. All potentially hazardous foods moved to working coolers. **Warning**
  • Marked exit/path to marked exit blocked. For reporting purposes only. Back exit door. **Warning**
10/07/2014Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Fan in walkin cooler dusty.
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler/freezer. Chicken.
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored with or above food, clean equipment and utensils, or single-service items. Cell phone on pizza prep table and purse stored next to bread in dry storage room.
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation.
  • Basic - Lights in food preparation, food storage or warewashing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. In dry storage room.
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. In restrooms
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair. At pizza prep cooler.
  • Basic - Reuse of single-service articles. Reuse of Dawn detergent container to store soup at walkin cooler.
  • High Priority - Toxic substance/chemical stored by or with clean or in-use utensils. Winded by cups in shelving near servers station.
  • Intermediate - Interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue. Pizza prep cooler.
  • Intermediate - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food wrapped in plastic wrap/placed in closed plastic bag while cooling. Beef at 50° F, risotto at 52° F, cooked pasta at 52° F all at cookline cooler, cooling over night . Food discarded. Corrective action taken.
5/21/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Exterior of breadcrumbs container soiled. Fan with dust build up at cookline. Interior of beer keg cooler soiled in front counter area.
  • Basic - Case/container/bag of food stored on floor in walk-in cooler. Shrimp, chicken and veggies .
  • Basic - In-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Lights in food preparation, food storage or warewashing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. In dry storage room.
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Cookline flip top cooler.
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. At both restrooms.
  • Basic - Rubber/plastic/vinyl spatula cracked/chipped.
  • Basic - Wall in disrepair. By HANDWASH sink in kitchen.
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. At breadcrumb and salmolina containers.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw chicken over lettuce at reachin cooler where cold plates are kept.
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance in the interior of the ice machine.
  • Intermediate - Paper towel dispenser at handwash sink not working/unable to dispense paper towels. By dishwashing area.
  • Portable fire extinguisher gauge in red zone. For reporting purposes only. By back door.
10/30/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured.
  • 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.
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair, pizza station.
  • Exit door blocked by highchair. For reporting purposes only.
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food, calamari over cooked eggplant.
  • Intermediate - Clam/mussel/oyster tags not marked with last date served.
3/29/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Observed raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit/during preparation, raw chicken over raw beef in reach in freezer.
  • Observed utensils stored in crevices between equipment. Corrected On Site.
11/20/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times, blocked by dishes. Corrected On Site. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed bare hand contact of ready-to-eat food by employees and establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure in effect, slicing cheese. Repeat Violation. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed obstructed exits, stairs, hallways or egress. For reporting purposes only, blocked by storage in back hallway. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food, raw chicken over salads in reach in cooler. Repeat Violation. Corrected On Site.
4/10/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. TRASH CAN. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed bare hand contact of ready-to-eat food by employees and establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure in effect. CUTTING PEPPERS. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed buildup of slime in the interior of ice machine.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • Critical - Observed food employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands and the establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. CUTTING PEPPERS. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. PAN STORAGE. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. RAW EGGS ABOVE COOKED PASTA IN REACH IN COOLER. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on-site and frozen not properly date marked. LAZAGNA. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on site and held more than 24 hours with not properly date marked. LAZAGNA. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Corrected On Site.
12/28/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Violation: 22-20-1 Observed buildup of slime in the interior of ice machine. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Violation: 32-17-1 Handwashing cleanser lacking at handwashing lavatory, by 3 compartment sink.
  • Violation: 37-10-1 Observed attached equipment soiled with accumulated grease, hood system.
  • Violation: 38-07-1 Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers, cookline.
  • Critical - Violation: 53B-08-1 No proof of required employee training provided. All public food service establishments must provide the division with proof of employee training upon request, including, but not limited to, at the time of any division inspection of the establishment. Pro This violation must be corrected by : 03/10/11.
5/13/2011Routine - FoodCall Back - Admin. complaint recommended
  • Critical - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times, bucket laying on top. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Handwashing cleanser lacking at handwashing lavatory, by 3 compartment sink.
  • Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers, cookline.
  • Critical - No currently certified food service manager on duty with four or more employees engaged in food preparation.
  • Critical - No proof of required employee training provided. All public food service establishments must provide the division with proof of employee training upon request, including, but not limited to, at the time of any division inspection of the establishment. Pro This violation must be corrected by : 03/10/11.
  • Observed attached equipment soiled with accumulated grease, hood system.
  • Critical - Observed buildup of slime in the interior of ice machine. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed leaking pipe at plumbing fixture under handwash sink in kitchen.
  • Critical - Observed obstructed exits, stairs, hallways or egress. For reporting purposes only.
  • Observed single-service articles improperly stored, not inverted.
3/10/2011Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Critical. Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on site and held more than 24 hours with not properly date marked.
  • Critical. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.
  • Critical. No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit.
  • Critical. Observed food stored on floor.
  • Observed single-use containers (boxes and/or cans) reused for the storage of food.
  • Observed nonfood-grade containers used for food storage.
  • Observed reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair.
  • Critical. Observed encrusted material on can opener.
  • Observed gaskets with slimy/mold-like build-up.
  • Clean glasses, cups, utensils, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner.
  • Observed single-service articles handled, displayed, or dispensed in a manner that allows for contamination.
  • Critical. Observed extension cord in use for non-temporary period. For reporting purposes only.
10/6/2010Routine - FoodInspection 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. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.
  • Critical. Observed raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit/during preparation.
  • Critical. Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.
  • Critical. Observed food stored on floor.
  • Observed gaskets/seals on cold holding unit in poor repair.
  • Critical. Observed soiled reach-in cooler gaskets.
  • Critical. Observed buildup of slime in the interior of ice machine.
  • Critical. Observed encrusted material on can opener.
  • Critical. Observed encrusted, soiled material on slicer.
  • Clean glasses, cups, utensils, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner.
  • Observed single-service articles handled, displayed, or dispensed in a manner that allows for contamination.
  • Critical. No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees.
  • Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers.
  • Critical. Observed extension cord in use for non-temporary period. For reporting purposes only.
4/26/2010Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical. Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name.
  • Observed gaskets/seals on cold holding unit in poor repair.
  • Critical. Observed soiled reach-in cooler gaskets.
  • Critical. Observed encrusted, soiled material on slicer.
  • Clean glasses, cups, utensils, pots and pans not stored inverted or in a protected manner.
  • Observed single-service articles handled, displayed, or dispensed in a manner that allows for contamination.
3/13/2010Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • No Violations Were Observed
10/16/2009Routine - FoodAdministrative complaint recommended
No report available. 5/12/2009Routine - FoodWarning Issued
No report available. 1/15/2009Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action

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