The Upper Crust

• official resultScore 35
• score35 pts
• inspection typeCycle Inspection / Initial Inspection
• failed findings8
• critical findings4

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Failed findings

• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Official wording: Hot food item not held at or above 140º F.
  code 02BCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🤒sick worker near the foodcritical
  Official wording: Food worker does not use proper utensil to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.
  code 04CCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🧤food-handling slipcritical
  Official wording: Tobacco use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area observed.
  code 06BCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Official wording: Food not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display or service.
  code 06CCriticalstatus: Critical
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Official wording: Plumbing not properly installed or maintained; anti-siphonage or backflow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly.
  code 10Bstatus: Not Critical
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Official wording: Non-food contact surface improperly constructed. Unacceptable material used. Non-food contact surface or equipment improperly maintained and/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
• 🍽️dishwashing setup off
  Official wording: Proper sanitization not provided for utensil ware washing operation.
  code 10Hstatus: Not Critical
• 🛠️facility / equipment issue
  Official wording: Hand wash sign not posted
  code 10Jstatus: Not Critical

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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.