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NameCAROLINA COMMERCIAL KITCHEN
Address3500 LATROBE DR
 
City/State/ZIP
CHARLOTTE NC 28211
Premise Type2 - Food Stands
CountyMecklenburg
Inspection Date 9/17/2015
Final Score @ Grade
92.50 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 Yes No 2-401.11 Cover and store employee drinks to prevent contamination of food or utensils. Found partially consumed Gatorade in Ooowee refrigerator over retail food. CDI- discarded drink.
8 1 Handwashing sinks, supplied and accessible Yes No No 6-301.11 Provide soap for handwashing at each handsink. -Pf: Found one handsink in facility with no soap. CDI- PIC supplied soap.
13 0 Food separated and protected Yes No No 3-302.11(A) Protect food in storage using covered containers, intact wrappings, or packaging. -P: Pork uncovered in food truck walk-in. CDI covered
18 3 Proper cooling time and temperatures Yes Yes No 3-501.14(A) Quickly cool cooked foods within 2 hours from 135F to 70F; and within a total of 6 hours from 135F to 45F. -P: Briskets from Hot Box 115 F at 9:45 AM were temped at 11:45 and were 86 F-100 F. Briskets were voluntarily discarded. Chicken dish from Taco Gringo 51 F from overnight. CDI- discarded.
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: Found numerous items including Ruthies fried chicken, fish; Belly Backers bbq, Hot Box collards, pork; Taco Gringo cabbage, sauteed veggetables, Sophies milk, not dated. BBQ discarded, fried chicken vegetables cooked were discarded. Personnel on site that could verify prep dates were allowed to date food. 3-501.18 Discard the food requiring date labels once time/temperature window has expired, if it is not been labeled, or if the label is incorrect. -P: Hot box tomato jam, mushrooms with expired dates. CDI- discarded.
31 0.50 Proper cooling methods used; adequate equipment for temperature control Yes Yes 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: Found large briskets cooling in covered speed rack (Hot Box). Briskets did not meet cooling parameters. Dense volume of chicken in sauce did not meet cooling parameters from overnight (Taco Gringo). Food was tightly covered. OooWee bbq cooling in dense volume tightly covered. CDI- uncovered bbq and moved to blast chiller.
41 0 In-use utensils: properly stored No Yes No 3-304.12 Store in-use utensils in a clean, dry place, in food with handles out, in 135F or greater water or in running water which quickly moves food particles to the drain. Observed tongs with handles down in Hot Box pork.
52 0 Garbage and refuse properly disposed; facilities maintained No No No 5-501.113(B) Keep dumpster, outside waste containers covered with tight-fitting lids or doors. Doors open on dumpster.