Employees at an Ozarks restaurant had trouble with hand hygiene this week, according to Springfield-Greene County Health Department’s food inspection reports.
At Village Inn, 533 E. Elm St. in Republic, employees were cited for two instances of improper handling of food in an April 14 report.
First, an inspector saw an employee grab pancakes with their bare hands and prepare to serve them. That was corrected, the report said, by having the employee discard the pancakes and put on gloves. In another instance, an employee wearing gloves cracked raw eggs into a pan, and then touched a customer’s plate and ready-to-eat waffle with the same gloves. The violation was corrected by discarding the waffle and having the employee wash their hands and change their gloves before returning to work, according to the report…