WASABI JAPANESE STEAKHOUSE
203 W ALEXANDER ST · PLANT CITY · Hillsborough County · FL 33563
Inspection Summary
Violation Summary
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All DBPR Inspector Observations
16 full violation description(s) documented by the inspector during this visit.
High Priority 4
12A-16-4High Priority – Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Employee left line to grab soap and paper towels for hand sink, and then proceeded to put gloves on and make sushi **Warning**
12A-29-4High Priority – Employee touched soiled surface and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Observed sushi cook answer phone while making sushi roll then hung up phone and continued to make sushi roll without changing gloves and washing hands **Warning**
03A-02-5High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Walk in cooler: butter (44F – Cold Holding); shelled eggs (46F – Cold Holding); shrimp (46F – Cold Holding). Manager will ice product, open freezer door and call for service. Cook line cooler: raw shrimp (48F – Cold Holding); cooked broccoli (46F – Cold Holding); raw chicken (46F – Cold Holding); shelled eggs (46F – Cold Holding). Manager iced down product **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
03F-02-5High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food identified in the written procedure as a food held using time as a public health control has no time marking. Sushi rice. Manager tome marked rice **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
Intermediate 6
11-27-4Intermediate – Establishment has no written procedures for employees to follow in response to a vomiting or diarrheal event where the vomit or diarrhea is discharged onto surfaces in the establishment. **Warning**
22-02-4Intermediate – Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Observed multiple cutting boards on cook line stained **Warning**
31A-11-4Intermediate – Handwash sink used for purposes other than handwashing. Middle hand sink and right bar hand sink used as dump and prep sinks **Warning**
31B-02-4Intermediate – No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. On sushi line hand sinks or bar hand sink **Warning**
11-26-1Intermediate – No proof provided that food employees are informed of their responsibility to report to the person in charge information about their health and activities related to foodborne illnesses. For some employees **Warning**
31B-03-4Intermediate – No soap provided at handwash sink. On sushi bar line or at right bar. **Warning**
Basic 6
14-45-4Basic – Cardboard used to line stacks of salad bowls in reach in cooler by three compartment sink **Warning**
12B-07-4Basic – Employee beverage container on a food preparation table or over/next to clean equipment/utensils. Observed employee drink next to tempura station **Warning**
14-11-5Basic – Equipment in poor repair. Reach in cooler door damaged and has duct tape across from three compartment sink **Warning**
35B-08-4Basic – Fly sticky tape hanging over food/food preparation area/food-contact equipment. Observed 10 fly tapes hanging in kitchen **Warning**
14-09-4Basic – Multiple Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable on cook line **Warning**
31B-04-4Basic – No handwashing sign provided at a hand sink used by food employees. At middle sushi bar sink, right side bar, or on far left cook line. **Warning**
Inspector observations synchronized from DBPR on October 21, 2026 12:53 PM.
Violation category totals
2 observation(s)
2 observation(s)
3 observation(s)
3 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
4 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.