Restaurant Inspections: Tony's New York Pizza

The Prince William Health District inspected the Bristow location one of the area's most popular Italian restaurant chains.

Tony's New York Pizza, at 10314 Bristow Center Drive, received one critical violation and three noncritical violations during a routine inspection on Sept. 28.

According to the Health District report, the critical violation includes:

Critical Repeat: Pizza and pasta for which time rather than temperature is being used as a control was not labeled or otherwise marked with a four hour cook, serve or discard by time.

Other non-critical violations included:

• There was no thermometer in the small prep cooler, or in the top-loading freezer.
• Corrected During Inspection: Knives and food scrapper stored between equipment between uses.
• Ice buckets were not stored in a position to allow air-drying.

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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.”