Casita Taqueria, 2706 4th St North, St. Petersburg, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: CASITA TAQUERIA
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 2706 4th St North, St. Petersburg, FL 33704
License #: 6216699
Total inspections: 9
Last inspection: 8/21/2013

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Food stored on floor.Hot tortillas stored in cooler and sitting on the kitchen floor.
  • Basic - Outer openings of establishment cannot be properly sealed when not in operation.gaps around door to outside in dining room.
  • Basic - Reuse of single-service articles.Plastic soda bottles re used as chill sticks for cooling foods. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Certified Food Manager or person in charge lacks knowledge of foodborne illnesses and symptoms of illness that would prevent an employee from working with food, clean equipment and utensils, and single-service items.
  • Intermediate - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cooled in quantity deeper than 4 inches.Soup in reach in cooler **Corrected On-Site**
8/21/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Reach in cooler on cooks line holding food product temp at 56°-57°
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Raw shrimp 57°, raw fish 56°, shrimp 56°, cooked onion 56°, par cooked beef 57° **Corrected On-Site**
6/12/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Hot water not provided/shut off at employee hand wash sink. In unisex restroom outside.
  • In-use utensil for nonpotentially hazardous food not stored in a clean, protected location. Tongs on oven handle
  • Critical - No handwashing sign provided at a handsink used by food employees. In kitchen. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Observed single-service articles improperly stored. Portion cup lids and kitchen to go boxes in outside restroom.
12/18/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Fish and beef in reach in cooler at 49-50 degrees. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Potentially hazardous food not held at 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Black beans held at 125 degrees. Corrected On Site.
7/9/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed ceiling soiled with accumulated dust in kitchen.
  • Critical - Observed employee drinking from an open beverage container in a food preparation or other restricted area. Drinking canned soda on cooks line. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed employee engage in food preparation, handle clean equipment or utensils, or touch unwrapped single-service items, without washing hands. In between glove changes. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed single-service articles handled, displayed, or dispensed in a manner that allows for contamination. Forks stored handle down behind bar.
  • Critical - Unpackaged food not protected from environmental sources of contamination during preparation. Maza dough beside handsink. Under soap dispenser where employees wash hands.
5/21/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • No Violations Were Observed
4/25/2012Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Critical - Violation: 08A-10-1 Observed an ice machine with no overhead protection. Corrected On Site. Went back to bagged ice until proper plan review.
  • Critical - Violation: 08A-17-1 Observed an unprotected ice machine in a customer/nonsecure area Corrected On Site. Went back to Bagged ice.
3/26/2012Routine - FoodCall Back - Extension given, pending
  • Critical - Cooked potentially hazardous food not cooled from 135 degrees Fahrenheit to 41 degrees Fahrenheit within 6 hours. Cooked pork and chicken soup, cooked yesterday, 1/19/2012, not properly cooled to 41 degrees. Pork 53 degrees, soup 48 degrees at time of inspection on 1/20/2012 Corrected On Site. Stop sale
  • In-use utensil for nonpotentially hazardous food not stored in a clean, protected location. Tongs on oven handles.
  • Critical - Lack of use of chemical test kit when using chemical sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine. 3 compartment sink.
  • Critical - Observed an ice machine with no overhead protection. Corrected On Site. Went back to bagged ice until proper plan review.
  • Critical - Observed an unprotected ice machine in a customer/nonsecure area Corrected On Site. Went back to Bagged ice.
  • Critical - Observed bare hand contact of ready-to-eat food by employees and establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure in effect. Cook touching cooked taco shells without gloves. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint. employees cooking/prepping.
  • Observed food debris accumulated on kitchen floor. Under cooks line in kitchen.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor. Flour container on floor behind cook make station.
  • Critical - Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Prepping out of hand sink.
  • Observed in-use utensil stored in standing water less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. On cooks line.
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Shrimp at 46 on cooks line. Corrected On Site. 39 degrees after correction.
  • Observed single-service articles handled, displayed, or dispensed in a manner that allows for contamination. Spoons and knives stored handle down.
  • Observed single-service articles improperly stored. Aluminum pans stored open to ceiling.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled spray bottle. Windex
  • Observed wall soiled with accumulated food debris. Behind rice cooker and beside flat top.
1/20/2012Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Critical - Restrooms with self-closing doors, fixtures operate properly, facility clean, supplied with handsoap, disposable towels or hand drying devices, tissue, covered waste receptacles
  • Critical - Thermometers, gauges, test kits provided
  • Critical - Employee training validation
  • Critical - Food management certification valid
  • Other conditions sanitary and safe operation
  • Critical - Thermometers provided and conspicuously placed
9/9/2011Food-Licensing InspectionInspection Completed - No Further Action

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