Gainesville restaurant Pizza NY Margherita received a visit from the Prince William Health District Jan. 16 for a routine inspection; the restaurant was cited for seven violations of the health code.
Pizza NY Margherita, located at 5115 Wellington Road, was inspected and five critical and two noncritical violations were reported.
According to the Health District report, the critical violations include:
Critical Repeat (Corrected During Inspection): Debris on chef's knives in knife rack.
Critical (Corrected During Inspection): Debris on food mallet in storage.
Critical (Corrected During Inspection): Raw chicken and cooked peppers in prep cooler at improper cold holding temperatures.
Critical Repeat: Pizza and calzones for which time rather than temperature is being used as a control was not labeled or otherwise marked with a 4 hour cook, serve or discard by time.
Critical (Corrected During Inspection): 3-in-1 oil stored on shelf over prep sink.
Other non-critical violations included:
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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.”
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