An Ocala restaurant was shut down last week after a health inspector found 15 violations – 10 of which were rated as high or intermediate priority.
Wok N Roll II, located at 8602 SW Hwy. 200 in Ocala, was closed at 3:15 p.m. June 27 after the inspector found live roaches in the kitchen area, under a dry storage shelf, on a wall under a wok station and in a crevice on a wooden shelf above a freezer. The inspector also spotted several issues with cooking temperatures, such as food not cooled from 135 degrees to 70 degrees within two hours. And at a front prep table, chicken that had been cooked three hours earlier was at 76 degrees, according to an inspector’s report on file with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
Other high-priority violations included:
• Food held in a reach-in cooler at the cook line at temperatures greater than 41 degrees (chicken at 46 degrees and pork at 45 and 46 degrees);
• Raw chicken stored above raw pork in a reach-in freezer at the cook line; and
• Raw meat held at greater than 41 degrees in a reach-in cooler at the cook line (chicken at 46 degrees, shrimp and beef at 45 degrees).
Four intermediate violations included ready-to-eat chicken stored in a reach-in cooler at the cook line that was held more than 24 hours without being property date marked, an expired food manager certification, no soap at a handwash sink and an unlabeled spray bottle containing a clear solution being stored under a sink.
Five basic violations also were noted in the report, which included an employee beverage container on a food preparation table over/next to clean equipment/utensils, multiple employee food containers above those to be served to customers, gaskets with “slimy/mold-like buildup” on a reach-in cooler at the cook line, a scoop handle touching the ice and a knife stored between a prep table and a reach-in cooler at the cook line.
A follow-up inspection the next day notes that the food manager certification was still expired. The inspector provided a website where an accredited food manager certification examination providers could be located.
An employee at the restaurant Tuesday said it reopened the following day.
