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NameEPRI CAFETERIA
Address1200 W W T HARRIS BV
 
City/State/ZIP
CHARLOTTE NC 28262
Premise Type1 - Restaurant
CountyMecklenburg
Inspection Date 9/11/2018
Final Score @ Grade
95.50 A
General Comments

Violations

 
CDI=Corrected During Inspection  R=Repeat Violation  VR=Verification Required 
Violation Item Demerits Violation Description CDIRVRComments
4 0 Proper eating, tasting, drinking, or tobacco use Yes No No 2-401.11 Cover and store employee drinks to prevent contamination of food or utensils. Observed employee drink cup stored on prep table. CDI- Drink removed.
8 0 Handwashing sinks, supplied and accessible Yes No No 6-301.12 Provide paper towels or approved alternative for hand drying at each handsink. -Pf Observed no paper towels at dish room handsink. CDI- Paper towels provided.
14 0 Food-contact surfaces: cleaned and sanitized Yes No No 4-601.11(A) Equipment food contact surfaces and utensils shall be clean to sight and touch. -Pf Observed meat slicer stored as clean with some food residue left on blade guard. Observed pan in dish area stored as clean with significant food debris left on it. CDI- Dirty items re-cleaned.
20 1.50 Proper cold holding temperatures Yes No No 3-501.16(A)(2) Maintain TCS foods in cold holding at 45F or less. -P Observed two pans of lettuce in ice baths at 55 and 58 degrees. Lettuce was stacked higher than ice in ice pan making ice bath in-effective. CDI- Lettuce rapidly chilled in walk in cooler to 41 and pans set in ice baths with ice as high as lettuce to ensure proper cold holding.
21 3 Proper date marking and disposition Yes Yes No 3-501.17 Date mark/label all TCS foods that are ready-to-eat once opened or prepared and held more than 24hrs. -Pf Observed hamburgers cooked and cooled yesterday not date marked in drawer cooler. Observed opened bags of TCS guacamole in fridge and prep cooler with no date marking. CDI- Burgers date marked, bags of gaucamole voluntarily disposed of by PIC and Cook. GENERAL COMMENT: A few salad bar items observed at 45 degrees. Reminder: TCS foods will need to be stored at 41 degrees F starting 1/1/19. Facility cooks beef roast and cools to serve cold on salads. Be sure beef roast is cooked min. time temperature requirements of 3-401.11 or ensure (if under-cooking roast and serving cold) that roast has a posted consumer advisory per 3-401.14. PIC said roast is fully cooked to FCT of 130 degrees.
31 0 Proper cooling methods used; adequate equipment for temperature control Yes No No 3-501.15 Quickly cool foods. Use methods such as open/vented shallow pans, large ice baths and active stirring. Cold air must flow around product to remove the heat. -Pf Observed cooked and tightly wrapped pork loin cooling for approx. 4 hrs at 48 degrees in walk in cooler. Food was cooling at proper rate but ensure foods are vented (not tightly wrapped) to speed cooling process. CDI- PIC un-wrapped pork roast to speed cooling.