Deficient Food Storage and Kitchen Sanitation Practices
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to store food and maintain food service equipment in a safe and sanitary manner in the main kitchen. During an observation with the Dietary Manager, multiple individually prepared food items such as bowls of fruit, coleslaw, pudding, peaches, and pasta salad were found open to the ambient air in the walk-in cooler, leaving them unprotected from environmental contamination. A plastic chemical dispenser on top of the dishwasher was leaking blue liquid, which pooled on the dishwasher and the floor. In the walk-in freezer, a box labeled gluten bread was found past its due date, and a bag of frozen corn lacked any date or labeling. A plastic container holding saltine crackers was broken with jagged edges. Additionally, a large vent cover in the kitchen had a significant build-up of greasy dust, and an area between two stainless-steel countertops contained extensive dust and debris, including condiment packets and a butter container accumulating on the floor. These findings were reviewed with facility leadership, confirming multiple lapses in food storage, equipment maintenance, and overall kitchen sanitation.