Benedetto's Steakhouse-Martini, 300 W Retta Esplanade, Punta Gorda, FL - Restaurant inspection findings and violations



Business Info

Name: Benedetto's Steakhouse-Martini
Type: Permanent Food Service
Address: 300 W Retta Esplanade, Punta Gorda, FL 33950
License #: 1800013
Total inspections: 3
Last inspection: 2/27/2014

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Inspection findings

Inspection Date

Type

Disposition

  • Basic - Hole in ceiling. Prep kitchen area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease. Over broiler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Waste receptacles/floor mats cleaned in a manner that allows the waste cleaning water to drain onto ground. Observed puddles of waste cleaning water behind establishment with a fowl odor. Operator states that floor mats and trash cans are being cleaned at mop sink and some of the waste water is draining off the deck onto the ground. **Warning**
2/27/2014Complaint FullCall Back - Complied
  • Basic - Hole in ceiling. Prep kitchen area. **Warning**
  • Basic - Hood soiled with accumulated grease. Over broiler. **Warning**
  • Basic - Waste receptacles/floor mats cleaned in a manner that allows the waste cleaning water to drain onto ground. Observed puddles of waste cleaning water behind establishment with a fowl odor. Operator states that floor mats and trash cans are being cleaned at mop sink and some of the waste water is draining off the deck onto the ground. **Warning**
  • High Priority - All potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) foods in reach-in cooler cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Seafood holding at 47°F. in glass door reach in cooler. **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. Cook handling bread/bun and cut salad greens. **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Butter holding at 73°F. on cookline. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Sauce holding 116°F. on grill. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Raw animal foods not properly separated from each other in holding unit. Raw ground beef stored over raw seafood in protein cooler. **Warning**
  • High Priority - Wiping cloth sanitizer solution exceeds the maximum concentration allowed. Chlorine over 200 ppm at cookline bucket. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Clam/mussel/oyster tags not marked with last date served. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Cold holding equipment incapable of maintaining potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food at proper temperatures. Do not store potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food in this unit until the unit is capable of maintaining foods at 41 degrees Fahrenheit or colder. Glass door reach in cooler holding at 47°F. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Dish area. **Warning**
  • Intermediate - Raw or undercooked oysters offered and consumer advisory provided does not contain the required verbiage. **Warning**
2/26/2014Complaint FullWarning Issued
  • Basic - Build-up of grease/dust/debris on hood filters.
  • Basic - Lights in food preparation, food storage or warewashing area missing the proper shield, sleeve coatings or covers. Dry foods storage room.
  • Basic - No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. Dish area, deck bar.
  • 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. Chlorine less than 50 ppm at dishmachine.
  • Intermediate - No chlorine chemical test kit provided when using chlorine sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine.
  • Portable fire extinguisher gauge in red zone. For reporting purposes only. Main cookline.
2/4/2014Food-Licensing InspectionInspection Completed - No Further Action

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