GOLDEN HOUSE
5201 BAYMEADOWS BLVD · JACKSONVILLE · Duval County · FL 32217
Inspection Summary
Emergency Closure Summary
Violation Summary
Counts reported for this inspection visit.
All DBPR Inspector Observations
24 full violation description(s) documented by the inspector during this visit.
High Priority 7
09-01-4High Priority – 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. Employee cutting up cooked pork and placing into foil platter. **Warning**
03A-02-4High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Chicken, beef, garlic in oil and rehydrated mushrooms in make table cooler on the middle of the cook-line at 53°F. Cooler not working properly but establishment still using cooler. Other TCS food items quickly removed from cooler before inspector able to get temperatures, upon walking into the kitchen to conduct inspection. Products had only been in the cooler for 2 hrs per manager. Moved to another cooler. On cookline cut lettuce at 57° and spring rolls at 64°. On cart sitting out by walk in cooler, chicken at 64°F, cut cabbage at 54°F and at 50°F. Discussed using the Time as a Public Health Control procedures. Food must be discarded by 3pm. Gave time as a public health control form. In walk in cooler #1 All TCS food at 44-46°F ( Tofu,noodles, chicken, pork, rehydrated mushrooms, chicken, eggs, bean sprouts, tofu, beef, chicken, beef, chicken, pork, butter, cabbage, wontons,) **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
03B-01-5High Priority – Potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above. Rice on cook-line at 87° Manager discarded. Spring rolls at 67° on cookline. **Warning**
08A-02-5High Priority – Raw animal food stored over or with ready-to-eat food in walk-in freezer – not all products commercially packaged. Throughout walk in freezer, multiple raw food (chicken, beef and shrimp) stored over ready to eat frozen foods. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
35A-05-4High Priority – Roach activity present as evidenced by live roaches found. Observed 2 live roach under rice cooker by cookline. Observed 1 live roach on wall near rice cookers which was killed by operator. Observed 30-40 roaches under plastic food bin in prep area between hand-sink and prep sink **Warning**
03A-03-4High Priority – Shell eggs held in a unit maintaining an ambient air temperature greater than 45 degrees Fahrenheit. Eggs on cookline at ambient 54° on cookline **Warning**
01B-02-4High Priority – Stop Sale issued on potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food due to temperature abuse. All TCS food items in walk in cooler.
Intermediate 5
31A-11-4Intermediate – Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Observed plastic cups in hand-sink at restaurant entrance end of cook line. And plastic pitcher in hand-sink in server area. **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
22-28-4Intermediate – Interior of reach-in cooler soiled with accumulation of food residue. Make table cooler on the middle of the cookline **Warning**
31B-02-4Intermediate – No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. Hand-sink opposite walk in cooler. Added by manager **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
53B-13-5Intermediate – Proof of required state approved employee training not available for some employees. To order approved program food safety material, call DBPR contracted provider: Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association (SafeStaff) 866-372-7233. Establishment is missing training for 3-4 employees. **Warning**
02C-02-4Intermediate – Ready-to-eat, potentially hazardous (time/temperature control for safety) food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Multiple TCS food items prepared over 24 hours ago. **Warning**
Basic 12
23-25-4Basic – Build-up of grease/dust/debris on hood filters. Heavily soiled with grease on cookline **Warning**
51-11-4Basic – Carbon dioxide/helium tanks not adequately secured. Two not secured in back storage room. **Warning**
35A-03-4Basic – Dead roaches on premises. 15-18 dead roaches by fuse panel, opposite the walk in cooler. Three dead roaches behind dish machine. One dead roach inside rusted out area of right hand side rice cooker **Warning**
40-06-4Basic – Employee personal items stored in or above a food preparation area. Phones, wallets and keys on cookline shelf **Warning**
14-11-4Basic – Equipment in poor repair. Two make table cooler on cookline not working per operator. **Warning**
10-20-4Basic – In-use tongs stored on equipment door handle between uses. On cart on cookline b **Warning**
10-01-4Basic – In-use utensil in nonpotentially hazardous (non-time/temperature control for safety) food not stored with handle above top of food within a closed container. Plastic container in sauce bucket, in back storage room **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
22-19-4Basic – Interior of microwave soiled with encrusted food debris. Microwave on cookline **Warning**
05-09-4Basic – No conspicuously located ambient air temperature thermometer in holding unit. In cooler in server area. Drinks cooler also used to store TCS food items **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
35B-03-4Basic – Outer openings not protected with self-closing doors. Rear kitchen door has no self closure. **Warning**
25-05-4Basic – Single-service articles improperly stored. Box of cups on floor in storage room **Warning**
08B-14-4Basic – Stored food not covered in walk-in freezer. Frozen chicken breast's and whole chickens in the walk in freezer. **Warning**
Inspector observations synchronized from DBPR on August 11, 2026 1:44 AM.
Violation category totals
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3 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
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.