Pizza Shop Closes For Critical Food-Safety Violations
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A local pizza shop fails to correct multiple food-safety violations, and CPH suspends its license for at least three days.
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A pizza shop faced Columbus Public Health Monday for multiple critical food violations.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.
Columbus Public Health (CPH) recommended a local pizza shop’s license be suspended for at least three days after four inspections with numerous critical violations.
Tommy’s Pizza, located at 3020 E. Broad St., was inspected several times during a four-month period and had numerous critical food-safety violations.
CPH inspectors were at Tommy’s Pizza Thursday, May 21, and found one critical violation: cold-holding of potentially hazardous foods.
A second inspection was held Tuesday, June 9, and two critical violations were found, including violations of cold-holding of potentially dangerous foods and unsafe food was not discarded.
A yellow sign was posted at the shop Friday, June 12.
A yellow sign means the business is in the enforcement process due to uncorrected critical violations found during follow-up inspections.
A follow-up inspection was held at the shop Friday, June 19.
There were seven critical violations during that inspection:
- Violations of cold-holding of potentially dangerous foods.
- Unsafe food was not discarded.
- Two violations of a food employee touching ready-to-eat foods with bare hands.
- Food employee did not wash hands in situations that required it.
- Person in charge could not describe relationship between food-borne illness and bare-hand contact with ready-to-eat foods.
- Ready-to-eat food not properly date-marked.
Another inspection was held Wednesday, July 8, with three critical violations, including violations of cold-holding of potentially dangerous foods, food employee touching ready-to-eat foods with bare hands and potentially hazardous foods not being reheated to the proper temperature.
CPH recommended Tommy’s Pizza’s license be suspended for at least three days and the shop be placed on increased monitoring for 120 days.
CPH may lift the suspension after three days if an inspection shows no outstanding critical violations and the license holder or person in charge attends a safety workshop within the last 90 days.
The restaurant in question is not part of Tommy’s Pizza, Inc.
Go to http://www.publichealth.columbus.gov to search for businesses with food-safety violations.
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Shouldn’t need gloves to make pizza, not a ready to eat food item. Going into oven over 450+ degrees, gloves should be worn for handling after it’s baked if handling without utensils spatula or whatever.
Did any of you read the article??? It clearly said that this Tommy’s Pizza was not affiliated with Tommy’s Pizza, Inc
dmac- Iaconnos on Sawmill closed two years ago.
People…READ THE END OF THE ARTICLE! This Tommy’s has nothing to do with the Tommy’s on Lane. It’s not part of the Iacono’s chain.
I’ve walked into that Tommy’s thinking it was part of that family but immediately knew it wasn’t from the filth I saw all around me. I walked right back out. Disgusting place.
Gloves are a joke anyhow. I have 15+ years in foodservice owning my own restaurant. People still wipe their nose, face, etc with gloves on and then touch the food. Get rid of the gloves and enforce HANDWASHING
The employees at Tommy’s on West Lane Ave in Arlington have NEVER worn gloves when preparing food. I wonder if all the Tommy’s are guilty of violating food-safety guidelines.
Tommy’s at Hamilton and Livingston was good for decades until the older gentleman retired a few years ago. His daughter took over for awhile and it was still just as good. Since she left the recipe chenged and the pizza is no longer worthy to be called Tommy’s in my opinion. The Broad St. location still maintained the good recipe even though they are not listed on the Tommy’s website as being one of the locations (not sure what happened there). I think if you peeled back the layers there is more to this story than we know. I still think Tommy’s (at least this location) still has the best pizza in Columbus.
Think about it, how many pizza shops have top notch cleanliness? I have only seen one in my 50+ years that uses food handler gloves (Fox’s Pizza Den). However their pizza sucks.
Good gravy! A school where I used to teach fed the kids Tommy’s Pizza once a week for lunch!
All one has to do is walk into Tommy’s at Broad and Hamilton to see how filthy this place is kept. It amazes me how an owner or manger can walk in their on a daily basis and not see how dirty. Too bad too, because the pizza is not bad. No more Tommy’s for me. Iaconnos on sawmill is the brother - that place is filthy too.
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