ZEKO'S MEDITERRANEAN GRILL
4880 54 AVE N · ST. PETERSBURG · Pinellas County · FL 33714
Inspection Summary
Violation Summary
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All DBPR Inspector Observations
12 full violation description(s) documented by the inspector during this visit.
High Priority 4
12A-16-4High 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
09-01-4High 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
08A-05-6High 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
03B-01-6High 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
Intermediate 1
22-02-4Intermediate – 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
23-24-4Basic – Observed: Buildup of food debris/soil residue on equipment door handles on cook line. Priority: Basic
13-03-4Basic – Observed: Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Employee observed handling ready to eat salads. Priority: Basic
14-11-5Basic – Observed: Equipment in poor repair. Torn gaskets in reach in cooler at cook line. Priority: Basic
36-22-4Basic – Observed: Floor area(s) covered with standing water in walk in cooler. Priority: Basic
10-20-4Basic – Observed: In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses on oven door on cook line. Priority: Basic
22-16-4Basic – Observed: Reach-in coolers at cook line interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Priority: Basic
25-32-4Basic – 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
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1 observation(s)
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2 observation(s)
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1 observation(s)
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.