Lighthouse Restaurant Inc, 7600 N Us Hwy 19, Fanning Springs, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: LIGHTHOUSE RESTAURANT INC
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 7600 N Us Hwy 19, Fanning Springs, FL 32693
License #: 3100032
Total inspections: 9
Last inspection: 11/10/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Accumulation of debris and lime buildup in three-compartment sink. Salad prep room
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Sugar **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Clean cups/glasses not properly air dried - wet nesting. Beverage glasses
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area. Sweatshirt on prep table **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Walkin freezer door has no handle and was frozen shut. Metal covering on door partly missing. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Food stored in a location that is exposed to splash/dust. Onions stored on soiled, wood shelves in screened room under unidentified chemicals. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Interior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. On cookline **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Leaking pipe at plumbing fixture. Hand sink in wait station **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Lights in food preparation, food storage or warewashing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. Dish area
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Kenmore refrigerator **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Open dumpster lid.
  • Basic - Outer openings not protected with self-closing doors. Screened room doors. This room leads into kitchen where door is left open
  • Basic - Waste line missing at soda gun holster. Bar **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Water leaking from faucet/faucet handle. Faucet in screened room
  • Basic - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name. Bulk sugar
  • High Priority - Faucet at three-compartment sink does not reach all compartments.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. In Kenmore refrigerator, swamp cabbage 45, baked beans 44, green beans 46, prime rib 48, half and half 48, butter blend 49. Unit was turned down and all foods moved to another unit.
  • 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 eggs over beef. Raw beef over raw fish. Both in reachin cooler on cookline **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food not consumed/sold within 7 days after opening/preparation. Mozzarella cheese dated 10/25. Discarded **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb. Two faucets in screened room
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Wait station, dish are! Salad prep room.
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Prime rib **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Required employee training provided by a person who is not a certified food manager.
11/10/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • No Violations Were Observed
4/25/2014Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Accumulation of debris on exterior of warewashing machine.
  • Basic - Build-up of grease/dust/debris on hood filters.
  • Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves. Shelf under cookline prep table
  • 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 - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Employee smoking in a food preparation, storage or warewashing area. Cook smoking outside kitchen door in screened room where ice machine, seafood reachin and walking are located. **Admin Complaint**
  • Basic - Equipment in poor repair. Interior of microwave by oven rusted and paint bubbling up.
  • Basic - High grass/weeds surrounding back of building.
  • Basic - Interior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. On cookline
  • Basic - Leaking pipe at plumbing fixture.hand sink in wait station and a black crud accumulated along pipes
  • Basic - Nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair. Walkin freezer handle/door
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed at room temperature. Fish **Admin Complaint** **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Waste line missing at soda gun holster.
  • Basic - Wiping cloth quaternary ammonium compound sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength. None **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Cut lettuce/cabbage/spinach/kale/chard cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Lettuce 50° in top of kitchen reachin **Repeat Violation**
  • 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. None
  • High Priority - Evidence of mop/cleaning wastewater dumped onto ground. Greasy, slick ground with mop strings outside on ground by two faucets. Must use mop sink.
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Scallops on counter at 58°f. Returned to reachin **Admin Complaint** **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food not consumed/sold within 7 days after opening/preparation. Pasta dated 4/7 discarded **Admin Complaint** **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Vacuum breaker missing at hose bibb. In screened room
  • High Priority - Wiping cloth sanitizing solution bucket stored near/on/above food preparation surface or food. On prep table **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - Employee has not received adequate training related to their assigned duties as evidenced by lack of general knowledge in performing their assigned duties. Server. Did not know she was supposed to use handsink for handwashing.
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Used to fill cup repeatedly.
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Dish area, wait station
4/15/2014Routine - FoodAdministrative complaint recommended
  • Basic - Ceiling tiles in disrepair. Salad prep room. Tiles sagging down over prep table
  • Basic - Ceiling/roof leaking in rear screened room onto seafood coolers and throughput the room. Sunny skies. Unable to determine if ceiling still leaking. PIC did not know if ceiling had been repaired.
  • Basic - Wiping cloth chlorine sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength. None
12/16/2013Routine - FoodCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Accumulation of food debris/soil residue on handwash sink. Near screen door
  • Basic - Ceiling tiles in disrepair. Salad prep room. Tiles sagging down over prep table
  • Basic - Ceiling/roof leaking in rear screened room onto seafood coolers and throughput the room.
  • Basic - Cleaned and sanitized equipment or utensils not properly stored. Beer glasses stored on paper
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Floors not maintained smooth and durable. Hole in concrete floor on cookline
  • Basic - Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. Lots of wet paper towels lining inside of reachin
  • Basic - Leaking pipe at plumbing fixture. Discharge pipe at kitchen handsink disconnected.
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed at room temperature. Shrimp **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
  • Basic - Wall in disrepair. Behind seafood reachin wall is coming apart.
  • Basic - Wiping cloth chlorine sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength. None
  • High Priority - Cut lettuce/cabbage/spinach/kale/chard cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Lettuce 62, top of reachin
  • High Priority - Employee washed hands with no soap. No soap at handsinks
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cream 48 in white kitchen refrigerator. Sour cream 53, creamers 69 in wait station.
  • High Priority - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food marked with a date that exceeds 7 days after opening/preparation. Mullet dip dated 9/14 **Repeat Violation**
  • High Priority - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food not consumed/sold within 7 days after opening/preparation. See stop sale. Mullet dip dated 9/14
  • High Priority - Wiping cloth sanitizing solution bucket stored near/on/above food preparation surface or food.
  • Intermediate - Manager lacking proof of food manager certification. Martha **Repeat Violation**
  • Intermediate - Nonfood-grade basting brush used in food.
  • Intermediate - Soap dispenser at handwash sink not working/unable to dispense soap. At three out of four handsinks
9/24/2013Routine - FoodWarning Issued
  • Basic - Cardboard used to line nonfood-contact shelves. **Corrected On-Site**
  • 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 - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils.
  • Basic - Employee personal food not properly identified and segregated from food to be served to the public.
  • Basic - Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area. Jackets
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. White reachin
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed at room temperature. Scallops **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food thawed in standing water. Shrimp **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Soil residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface. Mop sink
  • High Priority - Nonfood-grade containers used for food storage y direct contact with food. Galvanized metal containers for croutons, bacon bits
  • High Priority - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food marked with a date that exceeds 7 days after opening/preparation. Au jus dated 5/2, mullet dip dated 3/6 and 4/5, peanut butter pie dated 5/6, pasta salads dated 5/7, heavenly hash dated 5/4. All were discarded by mgr. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Food service manager not certified within 30 days of employment. Martha
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Cream
5/15/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Equipment or utensils not designed or constructed in a durable manner no handle on scoop for dry mix.
  • Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers missing end caps by light by ice tea.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit single door by server area. Repeat Violation.
  • Nonfood-contact equipment exposed to splash/spillage not constructed of materials that are corrosion resistant, non-absorbent, smooth and easily cleanable using cardboard for prep table.
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils.
  • Observed attached equipment soiled with accumulated dust lights in server area.
  • Critical - Observed employee engage in food preparation, handle clean equipment or utensils, or touch unwrapped single-service items, without washing hands when putting on glOves. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor lettuce in walkin. Corrected On Site. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed interior of microwave soiled top of server microwave. Repeat Violation.
  • Observed residue build-up on nonfood-contact surface on curtains in freezer.
  • Critical - Vacuum breaker mising at hose bibb at hose by backdoor.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name grits. Repeat Violation.
10/1/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Incomplete proof of required employee training provided. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR's contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233.
  • No Heimlich maneuver sign posted. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit in server glass cooler.
  • Critical - Observed bare hand contact of ready-to-eat food by employees and establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure in effect chopping onions. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed employee engage in food preparation, handle clean equipment or utensils, or touch unwrapped single-service items, without washing hands when putting on gloves.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor pickles in walkin. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed interior of microwave soiled top part by stove.
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food thawed in standing water fish in sink.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit/during preparation eggs above beef in cook cooler.
  • Critical - Observed uncovered food in holding unit/dry storage area flour.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled sanitizer container. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Vacuum breaker mising at hose bibb outside by ice machine. Repeat Violation.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name flours and breadings. Repeat Violation.
5/1/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • In-use utensil for nonpotentially hazardous food not stored in a clean, protected location hanging on stove handle.
  • Lights missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers by oven.
  • No Heimlich maneuver sign posted.
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit small refrigerator. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor mayo.
  • Critical - Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing holding aprons. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed unlabeled sanitizer bucket.
  • Critical - Vacuum breaker mising at hose bibb outside.
  • Critical - Working containers of food removed from original container not identified by common name flour,corn meal.
12/9/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action

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