A Springfield fast food restaurant that temporarily closed last week has been put on a risk control plan, according to a Sept. 5 report from the Springfield-Greene County Health Department’s food inspectors.
Last week, Popeye’s No. 775 at 1710 S. Glenstone Ave. closed due to standing wastewater in the kitchen. While they are still open this week, a third cold-holding violation prompted a risk control plan. According to the report, employees were using a breading table that they were previously told not to use and were not keeping time control logs.
Risk control plans are put in place by inspectors after an establishment has three of the same priority violations in a row. The inspector will show where the violation was cited previously, and then identify the risk associated with the violation, what needs to happen to keep food safe, and how an establishment can accomplish that goal, like monitoring temperatures regularly or checking the sanitizer concentration.
Issues found during inspection 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.