Sarku Japan

• official resultScore 17
• score17 pts
• inspection typeCycle Inspection / Compliance Inspection
• failed findings4
• critical findings3

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Failed findings

• 🧼staff skipping handwashingcritical
  Official wording: Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
  code 06ACriticalstatus: Critical
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Official wording: Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
  code 06DCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🧻grimy wiping clothscritical
  Official wording: Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.
  code 06FCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🛠️facility / equipment issue
  Official wording: Accurate thermometer not provided or properly located in refrigerated, cold storage or hot holding equipment
  code 10Estatus: Not Critical
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Official wording: Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
  code 10Fstatus: Not Critical

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with B on November 19, 2025: Score changed by -8 points. 4 findings appeared for the first time. 1 finding recurred. 8 previous findings did not recur.

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About this record

This record comes from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: NYC Open Data.