Unsanitary Ice Machine and Improper Three-Compartment Sink Use
Penalty
Summary
Surveyors found that the facility failed to store, prepare, and distribute food under sanitary conditions in the kitchen, affecting the ice machine and pot and pan sanitation. During observation of the kitchen ice machine, surveyors noted a low level of ice mixed with pink sludge, including visible pink sludge in the right front corner of the machine; the dietary manager confirmed the presence of the pink sludge and acknowledged it was not sanitary, despite stating the machine had been serviced and cleaned two days earlier. In a separate observation of pot washing at the 3-compartment sink, a cook demonstrated her process and stated she washed, sanitized, and rinsed pots and pans, while the sanitation dispenser was actually installed in the second sink labeled “rinse,” rather than in the third sink. The dietary manager confirmed that the sanitizer was in the wrong compartment and that the correct sequence for the 3-compartment sink should be wash, rinse, then sanitize, and the administrator confirmed that the ice machine should not have pink sludge and that the 3-compartment sink should be used in the proper wash, rinse, sanitize order.
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