A Springfield restaurant closed temporarily last week for violating its risk control plan, according to a Sept. 24 report from a Springfield-Greene County Health Department’s food inspector.
Triple Eights, 1701 S. Kansas Expressway, closed for 24 hours after a food inspector observed two containers of hot and sour soup being stored at room temperature since the day before and three packages of crab sticks that had been on the counter since that morning, according to the report. This instance was a violation of the risk control plan, which are put in place by inspectors after an establishment has three of the same priority violations in a row.
The Chinese restaurant reopened Sept. 25 after another inspection, according to a report.
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.