Inspection Report

Florida DBPR Inspection Report
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ZEKO'S MEDITERRANEAN GRILL

4880 54 AVE N · ST. PETERSBURG · Pinellas County · FL 33714

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Inspection Summary

Inspection dateJuly 8, 2025
Inspection typeComplaint Full
Inspection classFood
DBPR dispositionInspection Completed – No Further Action
Resultmet_inspection_standards
Inspection number3645006
Visit number1
Inspection Visit ID13446834
DBPR license6216265

Violation Summary

Counts reported for this inspection visit.

Full inspector observations available
4 High Priority1 Intermediate7 Basic0 Critical0 Non-Critical12 Total
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All DBPR Inspector Observations

12 full violation description(s) documented by the inspector during this visit.

High Priority 4

#2High Priority12A-16-4

High Priority – Observed: Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Cook on cook line arrived and began to work with no hand wash. Priority: High Priority

#3High Priority09-01-4

High Priority – Observed: Employee touching ready-to-eat food with their bare hands – food was not being heated as a sole ingredient to 145 degrees F or immediately added to other ingredients to be cooked/heated to the minimum required temperature to allow bare hand contact. Establishment has no approved Alternative Operating Procedure. Cook observed grabbing bread from the grill with barehands. Discussed with employee who reheated on grill to 145F and handled with gloved hands to prepare sandwich. Priority: High Priority

#9High Priority08A-05-6

High Priority – Observed: Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Raw chicken observed stored over cooked chicken shawarma in walk in cooler. Operator relocated **Corrected On-Site** Priority: High Priority

Corrected On-Site
#12High Priority03B-01-6

High Priority – Observed: Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. Shaved gyro meat hot held at 120 degrees F. Employees reheated meat back to 165 degrees F and transferred to hot hold at 135 degrees F. **Corrected On-Site** Priority: High Priority

Corrected On-Site

Intermediate 1

#7Intermediate22-02-4

Intermediate – Observed: Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Soiled gasket in reach in coolers at cook line. Priority: Intermediate

Basic 7

#1Basic23-24-4

Basic – Observed: Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles on cook line. Priority: Basic

#4Basic13-03-4

Basic – Observed: Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Employee observed handling ready to eat salads. Priority: Basic

#5Basic14-11-5

Basic – Observed: Equipment in poor repair. Torn gaskets in reach in cooler at cook line. Priority: Basic

#6Basic36-22-4

Basic – Observed: Floor area(s) covered with standing water in walk in cooler. Priority: Basic

#8Basic10-20-4

Basic – Observed: In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses on oven door on cook line. Priority: Basic

#10Basic22-16-4

Basic – Observed: Reach-in coolers at cook line interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Priority: Basic

#11Basic25-32-4

Basic – Observed: Reuse of single-service or single-use articles. Feta buckets used to hold cooked beans in walk in cooler. Priority: Basic

Inspector observations synchronized from DBPR on September 8, 2026 11:59 AM.

Violation category totals
Category 4 · Facilities maintain proper food temperature
1 observation(s)
Category 9 · Bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat food / AOP
1 observation(s)
Category 10 · In-use food dispensing utensils
1 observation(s)
Category 11 · Employee health knowledge / ill employees
1 observation(s)
Category 13 · Clothing, hair restraints, jewelry and fingernails
1 observation(s)
Category 14 · Food-contact and nonfood-contact surface design/maintenance
1 observation(s)
Category 15 · No longer used
1 observation(s)
Category 23 · Non-food-contact surfaces clean
2 observation(s)
Category 24 · Storage/handling of clean equipment and utensils
1 observation(s)
Category 26 · No longer used
1 observation(s)
Category 37 · No longer used
1 observation(s)

Inspection records and inspector observations reflect conditions documented by DBPR at the time of the inspection and may not reflect current conditions.