Wausau area restaurant inspections for July 2024

Wausau Pilot & Review

Monthly, Wausau Pilot publishes the results of health inspections at local bars and restaurants. When interpreting these results, it is important to note that there is a wide range of severity in health regulations. Many, if not most, violations are minor, ranging from cracked floor tiles to boxes improperly stored in a kitchen area. These types of violations are noted, but they clearly do not pose an immediate health risk to consumers. Others are core violations that are more consequential. Repeated violations are also noted. Though all violations are listed on the Marathon County Health Department’s reports, readers are urged to consider violations on a case-by-case basis.

2510 Restaurant

• Address: 2510 Stewart Av, Wausau, WI 54401
• Inspection Date: 7/22/2024

Seven violations:

• Food items including chicken tenders in cook’s reach-in freezer were found to be over 41°F due to freezer not being plugged in after cleaning the day before. All items were discarded during the inspection.
• (CORRECTED DURING INSPECTION): Sanitizer in two wiping cloth buckets tested below the minimum effective concentration of 150 ppm.
• Numerous nonshelf-stable food items were found to be missing date-marking, including salad dressings, wild rice, chopped mushrooms, a container of beer batter, cooked beef ribs, portioned tartar sauce, and prep table items such as tomato, lettuce, portioned sour cream, egg wash, seasoned milk, and raw shrimp.
• No test kit available for fruit and vegetable wash. Additionally no method for verifying dish machine wash temperature was available.
• Condensation in walk-in freezer on ceiling and like surfaces observed to have dripped onto various packaged food items including rye buns, sandwich rolls, shrimp, and french fries, creating potential cross-contamination points.
• Significant number of plastic hotel pans, lids, and like items found with cracks, chips, and burns that render food-contact and nonfood-contact surfaces uncleanable and present a physical food safety hazard.
• Various nonfood-contact surfaces were found in an insanitary state, including rollers and internal surfaces of the conveyor (impinger) oven with with dry food debris accumulations, top interior surface of the server’s cooler, a hole in the door of the salad walk-in cooler where a mechanism had been that is not cleanable, bins for utensils and kitchen equipment with accumulated food debris on bottom, and ice accumulations from cooling unit condensation on walk-in freezer product storage racks.

A&W Colby

• Address: 1210 N Division St, Colby, WI 54421
• Inspection Date: 7/11/2024

Nine violations:

• Employee observed going from using drive-through computer screen to preparing a sandwich without washing hands.
• Chili in counter-top hot-holding unit observed to be held at approximately 119°F. Item was within timefreame to be safely reheated.
• Food items in cook line prep table found to be held between 48 and 55°F, above the critical limit of 41°F, including onions, pickles, jalapeno peppers, tomato, mayonnaise, and garlic herb spread. All were replaced on the line, and within the timeframe to be safely cooled and reused.
• Staff is not monitoring hot and cold-holding temperatures of non-shelf stable food items.
• Numerous food-contact items were found to harbor food debris and residue, including plastic pans of varying sizes, ladles, spatulas, container lids, scoops, and like utensils and equipment. A majority of pans were stored prior to drying, trapping water inside at ambient temperature.
• Chicken prep table cooler and front-of-house reach in cooler lack thermometers for monitoring internal ambient temperatures.
• (REPEAT): A variety of non-food contact surfaces were found in an insanitary state, including multiple storage bins for utensils, kitchen equipment with accumulations of dried food debris on the bottoms, plastic meal trays with food residue, and the interior of a microwave with food residue and debris. A storage bin for spatulas was found to have accumulated water at the bottom as well. Additionally the area on and around the cooling unit of the walk-in cooler harbors formations of mold, which is above cases of food product.
• A majority of metal and plastic hotel pans on the clean storage rack were observed to be stored and stacked together prior to air-drying.
• Glass drinking mugs stored in walk-in freezer were observed kept directly under areas of condensation.

Best Western Plus

• Address: 201 N 17th Av, Wausau, WI 54401
• Inspection Date: 7/30/2024
• Four violations:

• (REPEAT): A quat test kit is not available for checking sanitizer concentrations.
• (REPEAT): Handwashing sink is portable, no water was present in the potable water tank and was reported that it leaks when used.
• No single-use toweling or other hand drying device available at employee handwashing sink for hand drying in the breakfast kitchen.
• (REPEAT) Tupperware push cart is no longer easily cleanable.

Char Grillhouse

• Address: 201 Jefferson St, Wausau, WI 54403
• Inspection Date: 7/30/2024

Nine violations:

• (CORRECTED DURING INSPECTION): Raw top sirloin steaks observed stored above fully-cooked chicken halves. Thawing raw ground beef patties found stored above RTE hamburger buns in cold drawers.
• Staff is not properly monitoring sanitization temperature of the high-heat dish machine in the main kitchen.
• Consumer menu has advisory statement but does not indicate which menu items are offered less than fully-cooked.
• A number of food-contact surfaces and items were found in an insanitary state. Plastic squeeze bottles were found stored in a pan with food debris and water that had dripped from above. Items such as shakers, measuring cups, lids, and hotel pan lids were stored in bins with dried food debris. Eating utensil holders found with debris and residue. Counter-mounted can opener had significant food residue on food-contact parts.
• Paper towel at bar handwash sink positioned such that the clean towel rests on the waste can below. This also causes the clean hand to come in contact with the waste can, dirtying the hand.
• (CORRECTED DURING INSPECTION): Kitchen staff member in warewashing area observed working without a hair restraint.
• Condensation in walk-in cooler observed actively dripping onto food product packages including chickpeas and shredded cheese as well as other surfaces in close proximity to the cooling unit such as wire racks and the floor. In the walk-in freezer active condensation drips from the ceiling and ice formations were observed contacting packages of corn, edamame, and sliced apple among others.
• Numerous nonfood-contact items and surfaces were found in an insanitary state. Hotel pans in walk-in coolers contained food debris from insufficient cleaning frequency. Walk-in cooler food storage racks were found to harbor significant mold formations, particularly in areas of condensation. Cookline prep cooler found with pooled water at bottom. Bins for storage of kitchen equipment found containing accumulations of food debris, such as those for squeeze bottles, shakers, measuring cups, and hotel pans and lids. Top surfaces of ovens and like equipment on cookline had significant dust accumulations.
• Large plastic food storage containers (square and round) found stacked together with room-temperature water as a result of insufficient air-drying.

Cobblestone

• Address: 216 Main St, Mosinee, WI 54455
• Inspection Date: 7/23/2024
• No violations found

Edgar Lanes

• Address: 119 Redwood St, Edgar, WI 54426
• Inspection Date: 7/9/2024
• Seven violations:
• Staff member observed handling raw ground beef patty in food prep area and subsequently preparing a drink at the bar for a customer without washing their hands. In another instance staff was observed handling a hamburger bun barehanded.
• A number of non-shelf stable food items in kitchen reach-in cooler observed to be held between 45 and 49° F for an extended time period, above the critical limit of 41° F. Items were discarded in the presence of the inspector.
• Staff not properly monitoring ambient cold storage temperatures.
• Consumer menu does not indicate which menu items are offered undercooked.
• Numerous food-contact surfaces were found to harbor or be in contact with dried food debris and residue, including tongs, scoops, spatulas, pizza cutters, knives, a can opener, strainer, a plastic ice scoop, and metal eating utensils.
• A number of non-food contact surfaces were found harboring food debris and residue including kitchen shelves, a basket for holding metal eating utensils, a tray for kitchen equipment and utensils, and the floors behind large equipment in the kitchen. Additionally the walk-in cooler had mold formations developing from the cooling unit and mildew formations were observed on interior surfaces of the ice machine.
• Southwestern exterior door does not fully self-close exposing gaps on the latch side that allow for potential pest entrance. Northwestern exterior door has small gaps at three of its corners.

Jack’s Cantina Bar & Grill

• Address: 503 E Spruce St, Abbotsford, WI 54405
• Inspection Date: 7/11/2024
• Four violations:

• Date-marking observed to be missing from a number of food items that require it, including several large containers of fish filets, tartar sauce squeeze bottles, containers of shredded cheese, olives, red sauce, blue cheese dressing, and prep table items such as sliced tomato, onion, mushrooms, lettuce, and bell pepper.
• Consumer menu does not properly indicate which items are offered undercooked.
• A number of food contact items and surfaces were found in contact with dried food debris and residue including numerous plastic hotel pans, pan lids, knives, and a wall-mounted potato slicer. A number of containers had adhesive labels on exterior surfaces.
• Numerous non-food contact surfaces were observed to harbor dried food debris including a bin for metal and plastic pan lids, a bucket for knife storage, a shelf for wares, and the bottoms of two reach-in freezers. Additionally interior non-food contact surfaces of the ice machine contained moderate mildew formations.

LC’s Restaurant

• Address: 304 Main St, Marathon, WI 54448
• Inspection Date: 7/17/2024
• Three violations:

• The wall mounted chemical mixing valve is not dispensing Intercon Grade A Sanitizer at EPA registered label use concentrations and is at <150 PPM.
• Squeeze bottles in the large prep table are improperly date marked.
• Cavity or door seals of microwave are soiled.

Ocean Blue

• Address: 1014 Western Av, Mosinee, WI 54455
• Inspection Date: 7/12/2024
• No violations found

Reservoir Dog Saloon

• Address: 206930 County Rd O, Mosinee, WI 54455
• Inspection Date: 7/24/2024
• One violation:

• An irreversible registering thermometer is not provided for measuring utensil surface temperatures in the hot water mechanical warewashing operation.

All data provided by the Marathon County Health Department.