DAY BREAK CAFE
1981 NORTH PINELLAS AVE · TARPON SPRINGS · Pinellas County · FL 34689
Inspection Summary
Violation Summary
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All DBPR Inspector Observations
20 full violation description(s) documented by the inspector during this visit.
High Priority 9
12A-27-4High Priority – Employee cracked raw shell eggs and then handled ready-to-eat food and/or clean equipment or utensils without washing hands. Cook cracked egg then handled clean plate to be served to customer without washing hands **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
12A-13-4High Priority – Employee handled soiled equipment or utensils and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Dish washer handling dirty dishes then clean dishes without washing hands **Warning**
12A-25-4High Priority – Employee touched face/hair and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Cook put hair net on then put gloves on and touched ready to eat bacon without washing hands Cook touched face with gloved hands then touched clean plate without washing hands or changing gloves **Warning**
12A-28-4High Priority – Employee touched soiled apron/clothes and then engaged in food preparation, handled clean equipment or utensils, or touched unwrapped single-service items without washing hands. Cook wiped hands on soiled apron then touched clean plate without washing hands **Warning**
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. Cook touched biscuit with bare hands, biscuit temperature was 80F **Warning**
01B-12-4High Priority – Food contaminated by employees/consumers and operator continued to serve food. See stop sale. Biscuit touched by employee with bare hands after wiping hands on soiled apron to be served to customer **Warning**
35A-02-6High Priority – Live, small flying insects in kitchen, food preparation area, food storage area and/or bar area. 5 small flies in bar area around soda gun **Warning**
01B-02-5High Priority – Stop Sale issued on time/temperature control for safety food due to temperature abuse. Butter packets Stick butter Eggs **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
03A-02-5High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Butter packets sitting out in server area 78F, stick butter sitting on counter in server area 69F Eggs sitting on cook line 68F sausage (45F – Cold Holding); gyro meat (49F – Cold Holding); diced tomatoes (46F – Cold Holding); diced ham (49F – Cold Holding) in reach in cooler, operator iced all product, food came from walk in cooler to reach in cooler at opening this morning around 7am **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
Intermediate 3
12A-03-4Intermediate – Employee washed hands in a sink other than an approved handwash sink. Cook washed hands in 3 compartment sink **Warning**
22-02-4Intermediate – Food-contact surface soiled with food debris, mold-like substance or slime. Slicer soiled Soda gun at bar soiled **Warning**
31B-02-4Intermediate – No paper towels or mechanical hand drying device provided at handwash sink. No soap or paper towels at hands sink in prep area **Warning**
Basic 8
14-09-4Basic – Cutting board has cut marks and is no longer cleanable. All cutting boards **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
12B-09-5Basic – Employee chewing gum while preparing food or while in a food prep/food storage/warewashing area. Prep cook chewing gum while preparing food, employee discarded chewing gum **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
13-03-4Basic – Employee with no hair restraint while engaging in food preparation. Employees put hair nets on **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
14-11-5Basic – Equipment in poor repair. Gaskets torn on reach in coolers **Warning**
36-73-4Basic – Floor soiled/has accumulation of debris. Floor soiled throughout the kitchen **Warning**
22-08-4Basic – Interior of oven/microwave has accumulation of black substance/grease/food debris. Microwave soiled **Warning**
14-17-4Basic – Walk-in cooler/freezer shelves with rust that has pitted the surface. Walk in cooler shelves **Repeat Violation** **Warning**
21-07-4Basic – Wiping cloth chlorine sanitizing solution not at proper minimum strength. Sanitizer bucket on cook line at 0ppm, owner refilled sanitizer bucket now at 200ppm **Corrected On-Site** **Warning**
Inspector observations synchronized from DBPR on October 19, 2026 2:52 PM.
Violation category totals
2 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
6 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
3 observation(s)
1 observation(s)
2 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.