Sakura Japanese Steakhouse, 237 Connor Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22911 - Full Service Restaurant inspection findings and violations



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Restaurant: Sakura Japanese Steakhouse
Address: 237 Connor Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22911
Type: Full Service Restaurant
Phone: 412 378-0066
Total inspections: 3
Last inspection: 01/20/2016

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Inspection findings

Inspection date

Type

Consumer advisory in place on menu. Left handouts on employee health policy reporting and exclusion.
  • Person in Charge
    Observation: Employees are not aware of or are not using suitable utensils with ready-to-eat food to prevent cross-contamination including sesame seeds--need scoop with handle..
    Correction: Ensure employees are preventing cross-contamination of ready-to-eat (RTE) food with bare hands by properly using suitable utensils such as deli tissue, spatulas, tongs, single-use gloves, or dispensing equipment.
  • Person in Charge
    Observation: Employees are not properly trained in food safety as it relates to their assigned duties.
    Correction: Train all employees in food safety as it relates to their assigned duties.
  • Person in Charge
    Observation: Employees are not aware of or are not practicing proper methods to rapidly cool potentially hazardous food (PHF).
    Correction: Ensure employees are using proper methods to rapidly cool PHF that are not held hot or are not for consumption within 4 hours, through daily oversight of the employees' routine monitoring of food temperatures during cooling.
  • Person in Charge
    Observation: Employees are not aware of or are not monitoring the temperatures of potentially hazardous food.
    Correction: Operator should ensure that at least one manager takes food safety manager certification course to enable them to teach all employees about food safety practices. Ensure that employees are properly cooking potentially hazardous food to the minimum required temperature for the specified amount of time in accordance with the Regulation. Be particularly careful in cooking those foods known to cause severe foodborne illness and death, through daily oversight of the employees' routine monitoring of the cooking temperatures.
  • Critical: Employee Health*
    Observation: Employees or applicants are not aware of the reporting procedures concerning information about their health and activities as they relate to diseases that are transmissible through food, including the date of onset of jaundice or of an illness due to Salmonella Typhi, Shigella spp., Escherichia coli O157:H7, Hepatitis A virus or Norovirus
    Correction: Have the license holder require employees or applicants report to the person in charge any information about their health and activities if they are diagnosed with or had a past illness from Salmonella Typhi, Shigella spp., Escherichia coli O157:H7, Hepatitis A virus or Norovirus
  • Critical: Employee Health*
    Observation: Employees or applicants are not aware of the reporting procedures concerning information about their health as they relate to the symptoms caused by illness, infection, or other source that is associated with an acute gastrointestinal illness or a lesion.
    Correction: Have the license holder require employees or applicants report to the person in charge if they are experiencing the following symptoms or conditions: (1) diarrhea, fever, vomiting, jaundice, or sore throat with fever. (2) A lesion containing pus such as a boil or infected wound that is open or draining and is on the hands or wrists, unless an impermeable cover such as a finger cot or stall protects the lesion and a single-use glove is worn over by an impermeable cover or on other parts of the body, unless the lesions covered by a dry durable, tight-fitting bandage.
  • Critical: Food - Packaged and Unpackaged - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation* (corrected on site)
    Observation: Different types of raw animal foods stored in such a manner that may cause cross contamination. Raw chicken stored above raw beef in walk in cooler
    Correction: Separate types of raw animal foods from each other such as beef, fish, lamb pork, and poultry during storage, preparation, holding, and display by the following: (a) Using separate equipment for each type. (b) Arranging each type of food in equipment so that cross contamination of one type with another is prevented. (c) Preparing each type of food at different times or in separate areas.
  • Records - Creation and Retention
    Observation: No parasite destruction records maintained for raw, raw marinated, partially cooked or marinated-partially cooked fish that are served or sold in ready-to-eat form (sushi and sashimi).
    Correction: Obtain a written agreement or statement from the supplier stipulating that the fish supplied are frozen throughout to a temperature of -4°F (-20°C) for 168 hours (7 days) in a freezer or at -31°F (-35°C) for 15 hours in a blast freezer.
  • Critical: Cooling* (corrected on site)
    Observation: Multiple batches of cooked rice stored in 5-6" deep bustubs made last nite at 45-46F, were noted not being adequately cooled to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria.;Corrected by discarding rice. Operator to cool rice in more shallow pan. It is a potentially hazardous food from 135°F to 70°F within 2 hours and within a total of 6 hours from 135°F to 41°F. A longer time for cooling allows an ideal situation for bacterial growth. This has been shown to be the major contributing factor in many foodborne illnesses.
  • Critical: Date Marking - Ready-to-Eat - Potentially Hazardous Food - Date Marking* (repeated violation)
    Observation: The prepared ready-to-eat (RTE) @FOOD@ in the refrigeration units are not properly dated for disposition.
    Correction: Mark the name and "consume by" date on the container of RTE foods at the time of preparation if the food is to be held for more than 24 hours. If the food is held at 41°F or below the food shall be served or sold within 7 calendar days. Some harmful bacteria continue to grow even at refrigeration temperatures so limiting the amount of time in storage limits the amount of growth allowed for these bacteria.
  • Nonfood-Contact Surfaces - Corrosion Resistant/Nonabsorbent
    Observation: The nonfood contact surface of the cardboard lining shelves, rusty shelves under prep tables, torn gaskets on two door upright refirgerator None are not corrosion resistant, nonabsorbent, and/or smooth.
    Correction: Nonfood contact equipment that is exposed to splash, spillage, food soiling, or requires frequent cleaning must be smooth, durable, and nonabsorbent.
  • Critical: Equipment - Food Contact Surfaces and Utensils
    Observation: Observed food residue accumulation in nozzle for soda gun and holster.
    Correction: The person in charge must clean and sanitize soda gun and holster more thoroughly and frequently based on the soil that may accumulate in/on the soda guns and holsters
  • Outer Openings - Protected
    Observation: Outer opening of the food establishment is not protected against entry of insects and rodents. Gap at bottom of back door
    Correction: Protect the food establishment against the entry of insects and rodents by 1. Filling or closing holes and other gaps along floors, walls, and ceilings, 2. Closed, tight fitting windows, and 3. Solid, self-closing, tight-fitting doors. Insects and rodents are vectors of disease-causing microorganisms which may be transmitted to humans by contamination of food and food-contact surfaces.
01/20/2016Routine
Rice at 70 deg F after cooling <1hr, shallow pan, WIC.
Facility found to be generally clean and well-maintained.
Concentration of chlorine sanitizer solution in dish machine final rinse within proper range

  • Physical Facilities - Cleaning Frequency and Restrictions
    Observation: Multiple ceiling tiles near exhaust hoods in dining area are soiled from steam and in need of cleaning or replacement
    Correction: Physical facilities shall be cleaned as often as necessary to keep them clean.
09/16/2014Routine
Generally, facility observed to be clean and well ordered. Reviewed employee health policy information and Norovirus prevention protocol with staff and left materials and signs. Remind employees to wash hands more frequently. Chlorine sanitizer at proper concentration from dishwasher at 50ppm. Food observed to be within required range throughout the facility.
  • Cloths - Wiping Cloths - Use Limitation (corrected on site) (repeated violation)
    Observation: Wiping cloth solution improperly mixed-using too much chlorine.
    Correction: Ensure wet wiping cloths are stored in a chemical sanitizer at the proper concentration between use.
  • Critical: Date Marking - Ready-to-Eat - Potentially Hazardous Food - Date Marking*
    Observation: The prepared ready-to-eat (RTE) dressings, sauces, rice, noodles in the walk in refrigeration unit is not properly dated for disposition.
    Correction: Mark the name and "consume by" date on the container of RTE foods at the time of preparation if the food is to be held for more than 24 hours. If the food is held at 41°F or below the food shall be served or sold within 7 calendar days. Some harmful bacteria continue to grow even at refrigeration temperatures so limiting the amount of time in storage limits the amount of growth allowed for these bacteria.
03/19/2013Routine

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