A live roach, flying insects and a slew of food safety violations were found during an inspection last week at the Fenney Grill in The Villages.
The restaurant, located at 3210 Fenney Way, was visited May 29 by an inspector from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The routine inspection uncovered seven high-priority, four intermediate and 10 basic violations.
A manager was forced to kill and clean up a live roach found on the floor of the cook line. The inspector also noted five small flying insects in the kitchen area.
Stop-sale orders were issued for several items due to temperature abuse. A reach-in cooler with drawers on the cook line had an ambient temperature of 50 degrees, well above the required 41 degrees or colder. The inspector issued stop-sale orders for meatloaf, raw salmon, raw fish, tuna, pasta, raw burgers and raw chicken that had been stored overnight in the broken drawers at temperatures ranging from 49 to 55 degrees.
Another stop-sale order was issued for Brownwood gravy in the walk-in cooler that had been kept past its seven-day expiration date.
A high-priority hygiene violation was issued after a male employee on the cook line cracked raw shell eggs, removed his gloves and continued working with cooked food and clean containers without washing his hands. At the bar, an administrative complaint was recommended because the dishwashing machine was not sanitizing properly, registering zero parts per million of chlorine.
The inspector also cited the restaurant for soiled floors with heavy grease buildup under cooking equipment. The shelves in the walk-in cooler and the interior of reach-in coolers were soiled with food debris and a mold-like substance.
Other violations included an employee working on the cook line without a beard guard or hair restraint, a blender improperly placed in a handwashing sink at the bar, an unlabeled spray bottle containing a toxic pink solution, and the lack of a written consumer advisory for a smoked salmon bagel on the breakfast menu.