Restaurant Inspections: Cafe Bonjour Cited for Improper Food Storage

Cafe Bonjour, located at 14950 Washington Street in

Haymarket, received seven citations Dec 19 for violations including improper food storage and children in the unauthorized areas of the restaurant.

The Prince William Health Department inspected the restaurant Dec. 17 and two critical and five noncritical violations were reported.

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

Critical (Corrected During Inspection): A food employee failed to wash his hands before donning disposable gloves.

Critical (Corrected During Inspection): Raw foods of animal origin stored over ready-to-eat (RTE) food in the 2-door upright cooler.

Other non-critical violations included:

• Corrected During inspection: Unauthorized personnel, such as children in the food preparation, food storage, or warewashing areas.
• Bags of flour stored on the floor.
• Cutting board and sheet pan stored at 3-vat sink faucet.
• Wooden knife block used for storage.
• The compartments of the 3-vat sink are not large enough to accommodate the sheet pans and cutting board.

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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 inspectors observe violations 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), they 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.”