A restaurant at the airport was found to keep sliced jalapeños more than a week past the discard date, according to the Springfield-Greene County Health Department’s food inspection reports from the past week.
The River Bend Bar and Grill, operated by Airhost Ozark Inc., was observed to keep sliced jalapeños in a prep cooler with a discard date of May 26, according to a June 4 routine inspection. The restaurant is located inside the Springfield-Branson National Airport at 2300 N. Airport Blvd. According to the inspection, the food was voluntarily discarded and the violation was corrected, though this was a repeat violation. No other violations were cited.
Issues found during inspections fall into either priority or non-priority violations. Priority violations impact the safety of the food, such as cross-contamination between raw and ready-to-eat food, improper food temperature and poor personal hygiene and employee health. Multiple priority violations can lead to an establishment being shut down. Non-priority violations alone do not directly affect food safety, such as dirty floors, sticky tabletops or outside trash cans not being covered…