Taqueria Quetzal

Observed containers of food in the reach-in cooler with wrong/old date marking stickers on them. Person in charge (PIC) states that their new employee has to be trained on date marking. The facility shall date mark ites by marking the date or day of preparation, with a procedure to discard the food on or before the last date or day by which the food must be consumed on the premises, sold, or discarded. Date of preparation is day 1 and has to be sold or discarded by day 7. PIC states she will train employee on date marking and put the right dates on items since everything was made yesterday.

Observed no thermometer inside of the main refrigerator in the mobile. The refrigerator has an exterior thermometer that is reading 11 but with no specification if it is in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Ambient air and water temperature measuring devices that are scaled in Celsius or dually scaled in Celsius and Fahrenheit shall be designed to be easily readable and accurate to ±1.5ºC in the intended range of use. Place an easily readable thermometer in the refrigerator.

Observed an employee's cell phone being stored on an in-use cutting board. Lockers or other suitable facilities shall be used for the orderly storage of employee clothing and other possessions. Find a spot for employee items to be stored that with not contaminate in-use items or items used for food service.