Digino Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, 219 E Burliegh Blvd, Tavares, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: DIGINO ITALIAN RESTAURANT & PIZZERIA
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 219 E Burliegh Blvd, Tavares, FL 32778
License #: 4508501
Total inspections: 9
Last inspection: 6/25/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • No Violations Were Observed
6/25/2014Complaint FullCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Ceiling tiles missing/in disrepair throughout kitchen, dining room and office. **Warning**
  • Basic - Lights in food preparation, food storage or warewashing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb. **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**
4/28/2014Complaint FullCall Back - Extension given, pending
  • Basic - Ceiling tiles missing/in disrepair throughout kitchen, dining room and office. **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 - Equipment in poor repair. Reach in cooler left of oven and walk in cooler not maintaining temperature. **Warning**
  • Basic - Food storage container/container lid cracked or broken. Sugar at front counter **Warning**
  • Basic - Food stored on floor. 2 liter soda bottles in hallway and bag of sugar in wait station **Warning**
  • Basic - In-use tongs stored on oven door handle. **Warning**
  • Basic - Interior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. **Warning**
  • Basic - Lights in food preparation, food storage or warewashing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. **Warning**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. In Walk in cooler **Warning**
  • Basic - Outer openings not protected during operation and vermin and/or environmental cross contamination present. Back door screen does not have a seal when closed. Frame bent. **Warning**
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed in an improper manner. Meatballs on top of microwave. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair. Reach in cooler left of pizza oven. **Warning**
  • Basic - Ripped/worn tin foil used as food-contact shelf cover. **Warning**
  • Basic - Server scooping/portioning food (other than ice and beverages) has no hair restraint. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Wall soiled with accumulated dust behind pizza oven and on metal hood system over pizza oven. **Warning**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Sugar under front counter **Warning**
  • High Priority - Dishmachine not sanitizing properly. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Live flies in kitchen. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. All products in reach in cooler to left of pizza oven and walk in cooler outside back door. Corrective action: used pans of ice or product was cooked to 165 and held hot. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in freezer. Raw beef over cooked pasta and flatbreads. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Wiping cloth sanitizer solution exceeds the maximum concentration allowed. In sani bucket and spray bottle. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Employee used handwash sink as a dump sink. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Encrusted material on can opener blade. **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 - Reach-in cooler shelves soiled with food debris. **Warning**
4/25/2014Complaint FullWarning Issued
  • 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. Observed food handler touch sliced cheese and put it on a sandwich that was immediately going to be served to the customer. **Warning**
4/18/2014Routine - FoodCall Back - Admin. complaint recommended
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. On all storage shelves in kitchen. And gray storage containers upfront. containers of pizza boxes in office area. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured. 3 under front counter. **Warning**
  • Basic - Case of single-service articles stored on floor in dry storage area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Clean utensils stored in soiled containers on racks of kitchen. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. **Warning**
  • Basic - Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Throughout entire kitchen and near entrance door. **Warning**
  • Basic - Food stored on floor. Bags of dry goods in office. **Warning**
  • Basic - Heavily soiled cardboard used for floor lining in outside cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - In use tongs stored on soiled oven door handle. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed in standing water. Raw chicken in kitchen sink. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Walls soiled near reach in cooler near far back door. **Warning**
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Containers of dry goods/ powders at different places throughout the establishment. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee began preparing raw steak and then proceeded to touch ready to eat food without washing hands. **Corrected On-Site** **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. Observed food handler touch sliced cheese and put it on a sandwich that was immediately going to be served to the customer. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.Ricotta cheese 61°f, cookline countertop product was not in the process of preparation or cooling. Food handler was unsure of how long product had been sitting out of temperature. Corrective action: operator placed product back into refrigeration. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. Raw shell eggs sitting on top of ready to eat cheese slices in walk in cooler. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Observed several objects stored in handsink. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. kitchen handsink. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No probe thermometer provided to measure temperature of food products. **Warning**
2/11/2014Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface.can opener base.
  • Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface.hood
  • Basic - Coffee filters not stored in a protected manner to prevent contamination.
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable.
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area.headphones
  • Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Door broken on chest freezer **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Reuse of single-service articles.aluminum foil
  • Basic - Screen in door torn/in poor repair
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.cheese at make table. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked.various
10/7/2013Complaint FullInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable.
  • Basic - Duct tape used to repair nonfood-contact surface. Chest freezer.
  • 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 - Equipment in poor repair. Chest freezer door is in disrepair.
  • Basic - Food stored on floor. Walk in cooler. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - No mop sink or curbed cleaning facility provided at establishment.
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed at room temperature. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • High Priority - License expired within 30 days after expiration date.
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of black/green mold-like substance on/around soda dispensing nozzles.
  • Intermediate - Interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue.
  • Intermediate - Make table surfaces at pizza cooler encrusted with or soil deposits.
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked.
  • Intermediate - Spray bottle containing toxic substance not labeled.
4/2/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Violation: 14-33-1 Observed equipment in poor repair.chest freezer.
  • Violation: 36-15-1 Observed food debris accumulated on kitchen floor.by dish machine.
10/16/2012Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Critical - Cold holding equipment incapable of maintaining potentially hazardous food at proper temperatures.make table
  • Critical - Covered waste receptacle not provided in women's bathroom.
  • Critical - Observed a splitter/multi-plug adapter in use. For reporting purposes only.
  • Observed build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface.can opener base.
  • Observed ceiling in disrepair.
  • Observed cutting board grooved/pitted and no longer cleanable.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed equipment in poor repair.chest freezer.
  • Observed food debris accumulated on kitchen floor.by dish machine.
  • Critical - Observed interior of microwave soiled.
  • Critical - Observed misalignment of hood suppression system nozzles. For reporting purposes only.
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit.cheese at make table at 62 d.f.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food.raw shell eggs over ready to eat foods in walk in cooler.
  • Observed wall soiled with accumulated food debris.
  • Open exposed fan blades on an in use fan.
  • Critical - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on site and held more than 24 hours with not properly date marked.walk in cooler
  • Critical - Vacuum breaker mising at hose bibb.need backflow preventer at hose bibb out back.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
10/15/2012Routine - FoodWarning Issued

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