Ashburn Restaurant Inspections: Dead Roaches, Mouse Droppings

ASHBURN, VA — Officials from the Loudoun County Health Department inspected multiple restaurants across the Ashburn area from July 28 to Aug. 3, including several locations with violations.

As coronavirus restrictions continue to fluctuate, health inspectors are returning to conduct restaurant inspections in person. However, some visits, such as those for training purposes, can be conducted virtually.

Violations at restaurants typically focus on factors that can contribute to food contamination. The local health department also performs a re-inspection to ensure that possible violations have been corrected.

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For every observed violation, the inspector provides a specific corrective action that can be completed to rectify the violation. Sometimes these are simple, and violations can be corrected during the course of the inspection.

Here are the most recent restaurant inspections in the Ashburn area, according to the Loudoun County Health Department.

• King Pollo, 22330 S. Sterling Blvd #113 Sterling, VA 20164
  • Date inspected: July 27
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 7
    • Handwashing facility observed being used for washing pots and holding pots during inspection.
    • Raw chicken observed stored next to cooked beans on shelf in the walk in refrigerator in kitchen.
    • Improper reheating in that cooked pork registered at 68°F in hot holding unit. As per the PIC said food was taken from the walk in refrigerator and placed on said hot holding unit directly.
    • Date marking not provided to prepared food such as beans, pork, refried beans, cooked chicken in the walk in refrigerator.
    • Toxic substances observed onsite in that insecticide for roaches observed in rear kitchen. As per the PIC, they apply said insecticide themselves to treat the roaches.
    • Several mice droppings and dead roaches observed in the facility.
    • Sanitizer test strips not provided.
• Axes and Os, 21680 Ridgetop Circle #125 Sterling, VA 20166
  
  • Date inspected: July 30
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 3
    • Observed food items (salsa 717/21, pickled onion 7/21/21, spicy mustard 6/15/21, pickled peppers 4/8/21) that were kept past the maximum of seven days. Food items removed from package or prepared and held in a food establishment for more than 24 hours need to be date marked for maximum of 7 days.
    • Tater tots hot holding at improper temperatures of 110 F, 115 F.
    • Observed tomatoes that were prepped and placed into prep cooler.
• Papa John’s, 43680 Waxpool Rd #150 Ashburn, VA 20147
  
  • Date inspected: Aug. 2
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 1
    • Observed diced ham with use by date of Aug 1st and prep date of July 25th @ prep cooler.
• Zoe's Kitchen, 44375 Brimfield Dr Ashburn, VA 20147
  
  • Date inspected: Aug. 3
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 1
    • Improper cold holding in that the food items such as humus, quinoa, basil pesto and tomato relish registered between 46°F-50°F in top left section of the low boy refrigerator next to the entry door in kitchen.
• Cracker Barrel Old Country Store #704, 23010 Indian Creek Dr Sterling, VA 20166
  
  • Date inspected: Aug. 3
  • Total violations and corrective actions: 3
    • Food employee observe picking up trash off the floor placing gloves on without washing hands.
    • Mac and cheese was reheated for hot holding 115 F, 145 F, 112 F, 125 F
    • Raw chicken (42 F, 43 F, 44 F) and shredded cheddar (45 F, 46 F).