Eight institutions were out of compliance last month, including a few downtown favorites, a gas station that may have to suspend coffee sales, a pizza place with a concerning case of croutons, and a reminder that it’s best to avoid prison food if you can help it.
Patelmo’s Pizzeria, 1530 Paoli Pike, out, 17 violations, including an employee seen touching raw chicken with gloved hands and then ready-to-eat food without changing the gloves or washing their hands, water bottles stored under raw beef in the walk-in cooler, and cooked chicken, cut tomato, ham, butter, and cheese found at 42–50°F rather than 41°F or below as required. Items were either relocated or discarded. Onions were stored on the floor of the dry storage area. Also found in the dry storage area were “moldy and adulterated” croutons. The report does not elaborate on why the croutons were believed to have been tampered with. These were immediately discarded.
QDoba Mexican Eats, 1107 West Chester Pike, out, 9 violations, including employees not following proper food safety protocols. While inspectors were onsite, an employee answered a cell phone with gloved hands and then returned to work without changing the gloves or washing hands. “Retrain staff on proper glove use and hand washing,” the report reads. Also, there was a litany of cleaning tasks. Listed were all floors and floor drains, the steel wall below the main hood, the glass shields along the service line, the hood filters and canopy, the fountain soda machine, and the chopper/food press unit.
Summit Food Service, Chester County Prison, 501 S. Wawaset Rd., out, 12 violations, including staff drinking from open beverage containers, a dishwasher not getting dishes hot enough to sanitize, a walk-in refrigerator not keeping items cold enough, and large containers of Homestyle Ranch dressing labeled as “keep refrigerated” stored at room temperature. These were discarded at the time of the inspection. Also, fruit flies in the dishwasher and coffee areas, and several cleaning tasks, including removing mouse poop found in the Market Place storage area.
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