Greater Alexandria Restaurant Inspections: Pizza Hut, Starbucks

Every wonder how clean your local restaurants are? Fairfax County restaurants regularly undergo health inspections, with the frequency depending on the type of food served and how it is prepared. While violations like malfunctioning refrigerators and food that's not warm or cold enough often pop up, health inspectors sometimes note more critical violations.

“In our experience, it is unrealistic to expect that a complex, full-service food operation can routinely avoid any violations," notes the Virginia Department of Health.

Here are full results for the latest inspections around Greater Alexandria, including restaurants that passed with no violations. Among these violations were grease buildup on walls at Pizza Hut.

Click on the violations to see each restaurant's results. Full reports are usually available five to seven days after the inspection on the health department’s website.

Violations

Abi's Restaurant: 5838-B North Kings Highway, Alexandria, VA 22303, last inspection: June 20

violations: Food(s) are not being adequately cooled from 135°F to 70°F within two hours and to 41°F within a total of six hours: two containers of refried beans approximately 5 inches deep, prepared evening prior and left inside the two door upright cooler to cool overnight. 52f, 61f, foods cold holding at improper temperatures : cooked pork 45f, left outside refrigerator for lunch, but food workers placed back into refrigerator (both corrected), methods used for cooling were not adequate to facilitate proper cooling: placing refried beans in long (approx 24 inches long, 5 inch deep containers) filled with hot refried beans and placing hot containers into an upright cooler to cool overnight without monitoring to ensure proper cooling time and temperature, absorbant ceiling tiles in dry storage areas

Pizza Hut: 7611 Richmond Hwy #105, Alexandria, VA 22306, last inspection: June 23

violations: Nonfood-contact surfaces of the following equipment were observed soiled with an accumulation of dust, dirt, food residue, and/or other debris:OBSERVED GREASE BUILD ON WALLS NEAR 3 COMPARTMENT SINK, WALL BEHIND GREASE TRAP, AND WATER HEATER WITH HEAVY FOOD AND GREASE BUILD-UP

No violations

Starbucks at Safeway: 8646 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, VA 22309, last inspection: July 23

violations: none

TGI Friday's: 6640 Richmond Highway, Alexandria, VA 22306, last inspection: July 23

violations: none

Image via Shutterstock