The state Department of Agriculture released the following reports of inspections of restaurants, markets and cafeterias in Lackawanna County conducted between July 2 and 19.<\/p>\n
No violations<\/p>\n
\u2022Burger King #6165, 87 Brooklyn St., Carbondale. Most recent inspection: July 15. Inspection type: regular\/complaint.<\/p>\n
\u2022Convenient Food Mart #3033, 935 Moosic Road, Old Forge. Most recent inspection: July 10. Inspection type: regular.<\/p>\n
\u2022Crumbl Cookies, 700 Commerce Blvd., Dickson City. Most recent inspection: July 14. Inspection type: complaint.<\/p>\n
\u2022EZ Corner Mart, 4801 Birney Ave., Moosic. Most recent inspection: July 9. Inspection type: regular.<\/p>\n
\u2022Great Wall Chinese Restaurant, 42 N. Main St., Carbondale. Most recent inspection: July 15. Inspection type: complaint.<\/p>\n
\u2022Ice Screamers LLC-MFF 2, 3738 Birney Ave., Moosic. Most recent inspection: July 8. Inspection type: regular.<\/p>\n
\u2022Kay\u2019s Pizza TFF 3, 452 Daleville Highway, Covington Twp. Most recent inspection: July 7. Inspection type: regular.<\/p>\n
\u2022Lizzy\u2019s Little Lunch Box Pop Up Tent & Small Catering, 25 S. Main St., Carbondale. Most recent inspection: July 8. Inspection type: opening.<\/p>\n
\u2022McDonnell\u2019s Grove, 187 Petrilak Road, Greenfield Twp. Most recent inspection: July 15. Inspection type: regular.<\/p>\n
\u2022Philly Pretzel Factory, 553 Scranton-Carbondale Highway, Dickson City. Most recent inspection: July 8. Inspection type: Change of owner.<\/p>\n
\u2022Picc\u2019s Ice Cream Co., 1147 Northern Blvd., Clarks Summit. Most recent inspection: July 6. Inspection type: opening.<\/p>\n
\u2022Taco Bell #39104, Commerce Boulevard, Lot 2, Dickson City. Most recent inspection: July 2. Inspection type: complaint.<\/p>\n
Violations, in compliance<\/p>\n
\u2022Abington Center for Education, 538 Venard Road, Clarks Summit. Most recent inspection: July 6. Inspection type: regular. Violations: Observed boxes of food stored directly on the floor in the walk-in cooler and walk-in freezer areas, rather than 6 inches off the floor as required. Food facility is not using an approved detergent-sanitizer in both compartments of the two-compartment manual warewashing equipment used for the dairy equipment. Facility shall use one sink to wash and rinse and the second sink to sanitize until the correct sanitizer can be purchased.<\/p>\n
\u2022Booyah! Burgers and Bites, 715 State St., Ste. A, South Abington Twp. Most recent inspection: July 8. Inspection type: regular. Violations: Temperature measuring device for ensuring proper temperature of equipment is not available or readily accessible in two refrigerators. Thermometers were placed in the units at the time of this inspection.<\/p>\n
\u2022Camp Comanche, 1557 Heart Lake Road, Scott Twp. Most recent inspection: July 13. Inspection type: regular. Violations: Food facility does not have available sanitizer test strips or test kit to determine appropriate chlorine sanitizer concentration. Chlorine chemical sanitizer residual detected in the final sanitizer rinse cycle of the low-temperature sanitizing dishwasher was 0 ppm, and not 50-100 ppm as required. It was determined that the sanitizer line was cracked. Facility will use disposables for service and wash pans and utensils in the ware wash machine and then sanitize in the sink until the line can be replaced.<\/p>\n
\u2022Cold Stone Creamery, 3 Montage Mountain Road, Moosic. Most recent inspection: July 14. Inspection type: complaint. Violations: Ceiling fans in the customer areas are dusty and in need of cleaning.<\/p>\n
\u2022Covington Fire Company TFS 3, 452 Daleville Highway, Covington Twp. Most recent inspection: July 7. Inspection type: regular. Violations: Steak and cheese stand, peppers holding at 121 degrees on the grill, a grate was placed under the pan. The grate was removed and the peppers reheated to 194 degrees. Food facility hot water heater is not producing enough hot water to supply hand wash sink through the day. A new heating element is being installed.<\/p>\n
\u2022Gio\u2019s Pizza Co., 100 Old Lackawanna Trail, Clarks Summit. Most recent inspection: June 18. Inspection type: regular. Violations: Nonfood contact surfaces (the sides of the fryers, grill and hoods) not cleaned at a frequency to preclude accumulation of dust. Nonfood contact surfaces (the table under the grill) not cleaned at a frequency to preclude accumulation of dust.<\/p>\n
\u2022Microtel Inn and Suites, 232 Main St., Dickson City. Most recent inspection: July 6. Inspection type: complaint. Violations: Soap was not available in the handwash sink. Paper towel dispenser empty at the handwash sink.<\/p>\n
\u2022Nonno\u2019s Pizza & Family Restaurant, 6 Radcliffe Drive, Moosic. Most recent inspection: July 9. Inspection type: regular. Violations: Nonfood contact surfaces not cleaned at a frequency to preclude accumulation of dirt and soil. The light intensity in the food preparation area is not at least 50 foot candles.<\/p>\n
\u2022Peanut Bar\/Cashew Lounge, 134 Cottage St., Carbondale. Most recent inspection: July 9. Inspection type: regular. Violations: Reduced oxygen packaged ahi tuna and salmon was observed thawing under refrigeration in packaging. Packaging stated to remove product from package prior to thawing under refrigeration. Tuna and salmon were removed from packaging during this inspection.<\/p>\n
\u2022Tasty Swirl Takeout Only, 921 Drinker Turnpike, Shop Rite Plaza, Covington Twp. Most recent inspection: July 7. Inspection type: regular. Violations: Food facility does not have available chlorine sanitizer test strips or test kit to determine appropriate sanitizer concentration.<\/p>\n
Violations, out of compliance<\/p>\n
\u2022Isabella\u2019s Eatery, 1179 Mount Cobb Road, Jefferson Twp. Most recent inspection: July 13. Inspection type: complaint. Violations: An open employee\u2019s beverage glass was observed on the salad bain-marie cutting board, a food preparation area. The glass was removed. Food employee observed eating in the kitchen. The employee left the kitchen. Thermometers for ensuring proper temperatures of food are not available or readily accessible. A sleeve of ground beef observed thawing at room temperature on the kitchen prep table, which is not an approved thawing method. The ground beef was placed in the refrigerator to thaw. There is no person-in-charge in the facility. New staff hired; due to language barrier cook unable to explain cooking procedures and temperatures. Observed wiping cloths in extremely unclean condition on the cookline bain-marie cutting board. The cloth was removed from the cutting board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The state Department of Agriculture released the following reports of inspections of restaurants, markets and cafeterias in Lackawanna…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1057,201,182,139,28,29,435,178,180,179,289,181],"class_list":["post-252723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-health","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}