Wing Wah Express Inc, 115 N Congress Ave, Boynton Beach, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: Wing Wah Express Inc
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 115 N Congress Ave, Boynton Beach, FL 33426
License #: 6013000
Total inspections: 12
Last inspection: 09/30/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Walk-in cooler shelves soiled with encrusted food debris. **Warning**
09/30/2014Complaint FullCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Accumulation of dead or trapped insects in control devices. Dead roaches in control devices behind cook line. PIC cleaned up and will call pest control for treatment. Operation has monthly service. Corrective action taken. **Warning**
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Bowl in rice, soy sauce and sauce in walk in cooler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Build-up of food debris, dust or dirt on nonfood-contact surface. Sides of equipment at cook line. **Warning**
  • Basic - Build-up of grease/dust/debris on hood filters. **Warning**
  • Basic - Dead roaches on premises. 3 dead behind chest freezer and 4 dead in accumulated grease on floor in between fryer and equipment. Employee cleaned up. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee eating in a food preparation or other restricted area. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Food debris/dust/grease/soil residue on exterior of reach-in cooler/refrigerator. **Warning**
  • Basic - Grease accumulated under cooking equipment. Cook line. **Warning**
  • Basic - Heavy Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. In between fryer and equipment. **Warning**
  • Basic - Plumbing system in disrepair. Stub out PVC plug in wal leaks when HWS drains. **Warning**
  • Basic - Shelf over preparation table soiled with food debris. At cook line. **Warning**
  • Basic - Soil residue and grease build-up on nonfood-contact surface. Top of burner at cook line. **Warning**
  • Basic - Walk-in cooler shelves soiled with encrusted food debris. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wash solution not clean. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on new set of gloves to work with food. Employee at cook line. **Repeat Violation** **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 dipping bowl with bare hand into soy sauce bucket. Discussed with manager, employee put on gloves. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Cooked chunks of chicken at cook line at 61° for 30 minutes. Employee placed in reach in cooler. Corrective action taken. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. Raw shrimp over cooked pork. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Accumulation of food debris/grease on food-contact surface. Slicer at prep table shelf. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Encrusted material on can opener blade. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Food-contact surfaces encrusted with grease and/or soil deposits. Inside broiler. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Hot water not provided/shut off at employee handwash sink. Next to 3 comp sink. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue. Tall reach in cooler at front HWS. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food opened/prepared, frozen and then thawed and held at refrigeration temperature not properly date marked. Bags of cooked pork in walk in cooler from freezer, no dates. **Warning**
07/30/2014Complaint FullWarning Issued
  • Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Cook top at broiler station and broiler. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee eating in a food preparation or other restricted area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair. **Warning**
5/19/2014Complaint FullCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. Cook top at broiler station and broiler. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee eating in a food preparation or other restricted area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Basic - Floor/table fan has accumulation of food debris/dust/grease/soil residue. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
  • Basic - Food debris/dust/grease/soil residue on exterior of reach-in cooler/refrigerator. **Warning**
  • Basic - Plastic jug cut in half and reused as scoop. For rice scoop. **Warning**
  • Basic - Reach-in cooler gasket torn/in disrepair. **Warning**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on new set of gloves to work with food. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Employee washed hands with no soap. Delivery employee washed washed hands with no soap. Discussed with PIC. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Live, small flying insects in food preparation area. Back of kitchen. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Ginger and peeled lime on top of eggs, reach in cooler cook line. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from one another based upon minimum required cooking temperature in walk-in cooler. Chicken over shrimp. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Wiping cloth sanitizer solution exceeds the maximum concentration allowed. Chlorine 1000 . **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Employee filled water pitcher/cup at handwash sink. Sanitizer bucket filled at sink. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Employee washed hands in a sink other than an approved handwash sink. In 3 comp sink. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use due to items stored in the sink. Sanitizer bucket. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue. Both coolers at cook line. **Warning**
3/17/2014Complaint FullWarning Issued
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Rice storage.
  • Basic - Build-up of grease/dust/debris on hood filters.
  • Basic - Duct tape used to repair nonfood-contact surface. Drop in freezer.
  • Basic - Floor/table fan has accumulation of food debris/dust/grease/soil residue.
  • Basic - Nonfood-contact equipment exposed to splash/spillage not constructed of materials that are corrosion resistant, non-absorbent, smooth and easily cleanable. Drop in freezer.
  • Basic - Wash solution not clean. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Employee failed to wash hands before putting on gloves to work with food. Discussed with manager.
  • High Priority - Food-contact surfaces not sanitized after cleaning, before use. Do not use equipment/utensils not properly sanitized. Employee washing equipment without sanitizing, discussed with PIC. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food in walk-in cooler. Shrimp over pork . **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Raw animal food stored over/with ready-to-eat food in chest freezer - not all products commercially packaged. Beef on spring rolls. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Encrusted material on can opener blade.
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use due to items stored in the sink. Sanitizer bucket. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Hot water not provided/shut off at employee handwash sink. 83° at sink near front counter.
  • Intermediate - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food opened/prepared, frozen and then thawed and held at refrigeration temperature not properly date marked. Bags of cooked pork in walk in cooler.
1/8/2014Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. Sauce in walk in.
  • Basic - Build-up of grease on nonfood-contact surface. At broiler station.
  • Basic - Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils.
  • Basic - Floor/table fan has accumulation of food debris/dust/grease/soil residue.
  • Basic - Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. Gallon jug as scoop. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - In-use knife/knives stored in cracks between pieces of equipment. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
  • High Priority - Cooked meat/poultry cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Diced pork at 57° in reach in cooler at cookline. PIC put in reach in cooler, 43° in 20 minutes. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Encrusted material on can opener blade.
7/9/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Basic - Current Hotel and Restaurant license not displayed.
  • Basic - Duct tape used to repair nonfood-contact surface. Reach in freezer.
  • Basic - Employee eating in a food preparation or other restricted area.
  • Basic - Food-contact surface not smooth and easily cleanable. Gallon jug used as rice scoop. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Basic - No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. Reach in , tall at cook line.
  • Basic - Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. **Corrected On-Site**
  • High Priority - Fresh garlic-in-oil/margarine/butter or product containing fresh garlic-in-oil/margarine/butter mixture held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Garlic at cook line 52?' owner put in reachin cooler , 43? in 35 minutes. **Corrected On-Site**
  • Intermediate - Handwash sink not accessible for employee use at all times. Sanitizer bucket in sink. **Corrected On-Site**
1/22/2013Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Food-contact surface not easily cleanable. inside microwave .
  • Critical - Hand wash sink lacking proper hand drying provisions. Soap and Paper towels .* Corrected On Site.
  • Light not functioning. Storeroom
  • Critical - No conspicuously located thermometer in holding unit. Reachin cooler. Corrected On Site.
  • Nonfood-contact equipment exposed to splash/spillage not constructed of materials that are corrosion resistant, non-absorbent, smooth and easily cleanable. Reachin freezer lid,inside.
  • Critical - Observed bare hand contact of ready-to-eat food by employees and establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure in effect. Cooked noodles , employee put on gloves .* Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed improper horizontal separation of raw animal foods and ready-to-eat foods. Eggs w/ vegies at cookline . * Corrected On Site.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
7/10/2012Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Equipment food-contact surfaces and utensils not sanitized. employee washing and rinsing without using sanitizer . Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed employee handling soiled equipment or utensils then engage in food preparation, handle clean equipment or utensils, or touch unwrapped single-service items, without washing hands. washing dishes then putting on gloves on for food prep. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint. employee at cookline . Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed food being cooled by nonapproved method. large 6 inch bus tubs of rice cooling at room temperature on speed rack at cookline. Temperature at 114 at start of inspection and 109 45 minutes later. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor. sauces in kitchen and container in walkin. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. sanitizer bucket in sink,front counter and utensils in sink at 3 comp sink. Repeat Violation.
  • Observed nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair, reachin freezer .
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. 30 + pounds of Pork being prepped on table at 63 degrees. Demonstrated to PIC how to use smaller portions while prepping. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Garlic in oil at cookline at 61 degrees, moved to reachin cooler. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit/during preparation. chix over eggs in walkin cooler. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Potentially hazardous food not held at 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Fried rice in bus tubs on speedrack at 109 degrees. Repeat Violation.
  • Critical - Potentially hazardous food not held at 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. pan of wontons at 89 degrees next to soup area, moved to walkin. Corrected On Site.
2/28/2012Routine - FoodAdministrative complaint recommended
  • Critical - Equipment food-contact surfaces and utensils not sanitized. rinsing pans off, no soap or sanitizer , Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Hand sink missing paper towels at dishwashing machine or area.
  • Critical - Hand sink missing paper towels in food preparation room or area. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint.
  • Critical - Observed food being cooled by nonapproved method. fried chicken cooling at room temperature , 85 degree kitchen . Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. sanitizer bucket in sink. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed nonfood-contact equipment in poor repair, reachin freezer lid coming apart.
  • Observed nonfood-grade containers used for food storage. to go bags,reachin freezer .
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. fried rice in bus tub at cookline at 55, moved to walkin cooler. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed sanitizing solution exceeding the maximum concentration allowed. 1000+
  • Critical - Observed torn packages/bags of food exposing the contents to contamination. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Potentially hazardous food not held at 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. fried chicken chunks on speedrack at 96 degrees, moved to walkin cooler . Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on site and held more than 24 hours with not properly date marked. rice , cooked meats and shrimp, walkin cooler.
  • Wash solution not clean. Corrected On Site.
8/11/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Critical - Observed an open beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed establishment using sponges on cleaned and sanitized, or in-use food-contact surface. SS Sponges on cookline .
  • Critical - Observed improper horizontal separation of raw animal foods and ready-to-eat foods. shrimp behind vegies top of make table, Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed open bags of food exposing the contents to contamination. rice and flour. Corrected On Site.
  • Observed reachin cooler gasket torn/in disrepair. cookline
6/22/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action
  • Observed employee with no hair restraint. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed encrusted material on can opener. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed food stored on floor. walkin cooler, Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed improper horizontal separation of raw animal foods and ready-to-eat foods. eggs behind vegies top of make table, Corrected On Site.
  • Observed nonfood-grade containers used for food storage. cardboard box to drain chicken wings, Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. eggs at 85 degrees,moved to reachin cooler. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed potentially hazardous food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. rice in bus tub at cookline, Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Observed raw animal food stored over ready-to-eat food. pork over cabbage and noodles, Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Potentially hazardous food not held at 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. chicken wings at 105 on counter at fryer,moved to cooler. Corrected On Site.
  • Critical - Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous food prepared on site and held more than 24 hours with not properly date marked. cooked meats and ribs in walkin cooler.
  • Critical - Thermometers not calibrated according to manufacturer's specifications.
  • Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses.
6/21/2011Routine - FoodInspection Completed - No Further Action

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