Tony’s Express Restaurant at 4471 Columbia Road, was inspected June 12. A follow-up inspection is scheduled for June 22.
The inspection turned up 18 violations, several of them serious.
Among the most significant findings: a walk-in cooler was holding food at 72 degrees — well above the 41-degree maximum required for safe cold storage. Food items were moved to ice and a refrigerated truck was ordered. Inspectors also found chicken that had been cooling for an hour and a half but had only dropped from 113 degrees to 107 degrees — far short of the rate required to prevent bacterial growth. That food was discarded on the spot…