Restaurant Inspections: Pei Wei Asian Diner Inspected Jan. 3

The Prince William Health District of the Virginia Department of Health inspected popular Virginia Gateway eatery Pei Wei Asian Diner Jan. 3.

Pei Wei Asian Diner, owned by P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc., and located at 5035 Wellington Road in Gainesville, received two critical violations and eight noncritical violations during a routine inspection.

According to the Health District report, critical violations include:

Critical (Corrected During Inspection): Debris in knives on wall rack.

Critical: Gasoline stored in kitchen.

Other non-critical violations included:

• Corrected During Inspection (Repeat): No paper towels at cooking line hand sink.
• Corrected During Inspection (Repeat): No hand washing sign at cooking line hand sink.
• Corrected During Inspection: Debris and mold on ice buckets.
• No thermometer in 2-door work-top cooler.
• Corrected During Inspection (Repeat): Sesame seed stored below service area hand sink.
• Cups at serving line exposed.
• 1-door 2-drawer cooler at 43 degrees.
• Corrected During Inspection: Food & debris on plastic sink covers.

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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.”