RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS: Gainesville Pizza Hut, Domino's Cited for Health Code Violations

Prince William County Health District recently inspected two Gainesville pizza delivery chains and found sanitary violations in both.

Pizza Hut, located at 6896 Piedmont Center Plaza in Gainesville, was inspected Aug. 11 and one critical and four noncritical violations were reported.

According to the Health District report, the critical violations include:

Critical (Corrected During Inspection): Personnel eating at prep table.

Other non-critical violations included:

• Food stored on the floor in walk-in freezer.
• Repeat: The exterior of the mechanical warewashing machine is soiled with food debris that may contaminate clean equipment.
• Repeat: The mop sink water line to the chemical mixer / dispenser lacks a backflow or backsiphonage prevention device identified as meeting standards set by the American Society of Sanitary Engineering.
• Repeat: Dead lamp in exhaust hood.

The Health District cited Domino's, located at 7625 New Linton Hall Road in Gainesville, Aug. 11 for four noncritical violations; however, one was for a potential food temperature issue.

The non-critical violations included:

• There were no thermometers in the pizza prep cooler or in the 2-door prep cooler.
• Repeat: Heavy accumulation of dust on walk-in cooler, pizza prep cooler, & 2-door prep cooler refrigeration coils.
• Grease cup missing in exhaust hood.
• No soap in dispenser at the hand washing sink by the 3-vat sink.

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“Restaurant inspections are normally scheduled for one to four inspections per year, depending on the complexity of the menu, how much food is made from raw products, and how much is made in advance rather than cooked-to-order,” the agency states on their website.

When violations are observed during a routine inspection, they are detailed in a report and classified as either critical (posing a direct or immediate threat to consumers) or non-critical (a failure of cleaning or maintenance), the agency said.

These inspections are considered by the Health District as a snapshot of a specific day of operation.

According to the agency, “Ideally, an operation would have no critical violations, or none which are not corrected immediately and not repeated. In our experience, it is unrealistic to expect that a complex, full-service food operation can routinely avoid any violations.”