ROUTINE INSPECTION
Note: Food safety manager certificate: Tetsuya Ozaki - 4/23/2027 2. The restaurant is serving sushi using an acidified rice. However, it does not have HACCP plan and the risk category is classified as an RC02. The program element shall be changed to FP11 and the risk category to RC03. 3. There is a bar in the dining area used to mix drinks. However, the owner has installed a handwash station in the bar area without submitting a plan. There is no three compartment warewash sink as well. Until plans are submitted to our office's plan check unit to install both facilities in the bar area, no open drink may be served from the station. Please contact our plan check unit for requirement at dehplancheck@deh.sccgov.org 4. The restaurant opens after 5 pm. However, this inspection is conducted during the lunch time, because employees were observed conducting food preparation.
6 reported violations
- K36: Equipment, utensils, linens: Proper storage and use
Compressed gas cylinders stored on the dry storage area were not chained to a secure stand. [CA] To prevent possible accidents from falling compressed gas cylinder, all the cylinders must restrain to a secure stand.
- K14: Food contact surfaces clean, sanitized
The maximum water temperature on the mechanical dishwasher was measured at 155 OF. [CA] If high temperature mechanical dishwasher is used to sanitize dishes, the minimum temperature must be adjusted to 160 OF. Until the mechanical dishwasher's temperature is raised to 160 OF, sanitizing must be done on the two-compartment wash sink (SA).
- K30: Food storage: food storage containers identified
Some food products on boxes were stored directly on the floor or on milk crate back in the storage area. [CA] To prevent insect hiding and breading and for easy cleaning of the floor area, please store all food products at least six inches off the floor on an approved shelf or dunnage rack.
- K27: Food separated and protected
Some open bag food products were stored on the shelf in the dry storage area. [CA] Store all open bag food products in properly labeled bulk containers.
- K18: Compliance with variance/ROP/HACCP Plan
The facility uses vinegar to acidify the rice to keep it at room temperature. It also deals with raw fish. [CA] If a facility uses special processing to store to improve the shelf life of potentially hazardous food products like rice, we must write a HACCP plan and standard operational procedure (SOP) to identify and evaluate the critical control points. Please provide an HACCP plan SOP for the facility.
- K44: Premises clean, in good repair; Personal/chemical storage; Adequate vermin-proofing
There is no approved sanitizer measuring strip to measure the concentration of the chemicals used to sanitize dishes and utensils in the facility. [CA] Provide approved sanitizer measuring strips for the chemicals used in sanitizing utensils. equipment, and food contact surfaces.