Tokyo Express

Employees did not wash hands upon reentering kitchen from outside. CA: Employee to wash hands after contamination from handling raw meat, handling trash, reentering kitchen from rest room or from outside. COS- Employees stopped duties, and washed hands at hand sink. Repeat.

Employee rinsed knife and did not clean, rinse and sanitize utensil as required. CA: Utensils to be properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after use. COS- PIC washed, rinsed and sanitized knife.

Covered trash receptacle not present in women's rest room.

Wet mop stored in mop bucket after use rather than hanging mop to air dry.

Employee entered kitchen from outside and donned gloves without first washing hands. CA: Employees to wash hands before each glove change and whenever hands are contaminated. COS-Employee instructed to wash hands before proceeding further. Employee washed hands then started food preparation.

Cup without handle used to dispense rice from bulk container.

Loose trash observed in dumpster enclosure. Repeat.

Opened container of tofu not date marked in walk-in (WI) cooler. Corrective action (CA): Date mark ready-to-eat (RTE) foods held 24 hours using 7-day discard date on label.

Loose trash observed on ground within dumpster enclosure.

Observed metal food pans stacked wet after washing.

Observed sanitizer concentration in spray bottle used on dining tables, less than 50 ppm chlorine. Person in charge (PIC) advised to maintain sanitizer concentration in working containers at 50-100 ppm chlorine. PIC replaced sanitizer solution and verified concentration.

Observed dumpster door left open after last use.

Observed personal items stored in container above food items for the establishment. PIC advised to store personal items below and separate from food, utensils, equipment and linen for establishment.