SUSHI BISTRO OF OCALA
18 SE BROADWAY ST · OCALA · Marion County · FL 34471
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 – Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Observed employees eating at the dining area and started working with food without washing his hands. Inspector instructed to stopped and washed their hands. **Corrective Action Taken**
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. At the sushi bar area, male employee cutting peeled cucumber with bare hands, inspector instructed to wash hands and used gloves. **Corrective Action Taken**
08A-05-6High Priority – Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. Reach-in cooler at the cook line, observed container of raw beef stored on top of cut onions, Manager moved. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
03A-02-5High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Reach-in cooler at the cook line, raw shrimps and raw chicken 47F, manager added ice. **Corrective Action Taken** **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
Intermediate 3
12A-03-4Intermediate – Employee washed hands in a sink other than an approved handwash sink. Male employee started to rinsed his hands at the wok station faucet, Inspector stopped employee and instructed to washed his hand at the handwash sink. **Corrected On-Site**
16-37-1Intermediate – No chemical test kit provided when using sanitizer at three-compartment sink/warewashing machine or wiping cloths. For chlorine.
02C-02-5Intermediate – Ready-to-eat, time/temperature control for safety food prepared onsite and held more than 24 hours not properly date marked. Reach-in cooler at the kitchen area, ginger sauce no date marked, Manager dated. **Corrected On-Site**
Basic 5
14-01-5Basic – Bowl or other container with no handle used to dispense food. At the server station, bowl no handle inside sauce. **Repeat Violation**
08B-49-4Basic – Employee personal food not properly identified and segregated from food to be served to the public. Reach-in cooler at the cook line, employee personal food stored above customers food, Manager moved. **Corrected On-Site**
23-03-4Basic – Nonfood-contact surface soiled with grease, food debris, dirt, slime or dust. Exterior of rice warmer soiled.
22-16-4Basic – Reach-in cooler interior/shelves have accumulation of soil residues. Interior of triple door cooler soiled, also shelves.
21-12-4Basic – Wet wiping cloth not stored in sanitizing solution between uses. Multiple wet cloth on prep tables and on top of cutting boards, a manager moved all. **Corrected On-Site** **Repeat Violation**
Inspector observations synchronized from DBPR on October 21, 2026 1:14 PM.
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Inspection records and inspector observations reflect conditions documented by DBPR at the time of the inspection and may not reflect current conditions.