Restaurant Inspections: Franconia Moose Lodge and McDonald's

The state health department recently inspected a few restaurants in the Kingstowne and Rose Hill areas. For prior restaurant inspection reports, click here.

In Virginia, restaurant inspection reports aren't quite as simple as getting a letter grade or an easy-to-see number rating to post in the front window.

That said, we all want to know how our favorite restaurants stack up on cleanliness and sanitation. Inspectors grade restaurants based on critical and non-critical violations.

A "critical violation" is one that "poses a direct or immediate threat to the safety of the food being served." Non-critical violations are generally related to cleaning or maintenance.

"Ideally, an operation would have no critical violations, or none which are not corrected immediately and not repeated. In our experience, it is unrealistic to expect that a complex, full-service food operation can routinely avoid any violations," according to Virginia Department of Health's website.

The site continues: "Keep in mind that any inspection report is a 'snapshot' of the day and time of the inspection. On any given day, a restaurant could have fewer or more violations than noted in the report. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long-term cleanliness of an establishment."

Below, find the latest restaurant inspection from the Virginia Department of Health. These inspections reflect visits from inspectors during the last few weeks. Some of the violations were corrected immediately during the recent inspections.

The full reports can be accessed on the health department's website.

Franconia Moose Lodge
7701 Beulah St.
Date of inspection: Oct. 31
Critical (corrected during inspection): A food employee failed to wash his or her hands before engaging in food preparation, after coughing in gloves or after engaging in any activity that could contaminate the hands.
Critical (corrected during inspection): The following food item(s) were observed cold holding at improper temperatures using a calibrated food temperature measuring device: tuna salad inside of prep cooler.
Non-critical: Surfaces of ice bins and enclosed components of equipment are not being cleaned as required.

McDonald's
6020 Rose Hill Dr.
Date of inspection: Oct. 31
Critical (corrected during inspection): The person in charge is not able to provide written procedures for the use of time as a public health control with the following potentially hazardous food item(s): ham and raw eggs by grill.
Non-critical (corrected during inspection): Observed the hand sink by walk-in cooler being used as dump station.

BBQ Delight
6981-C Hechinger Dr.
Date of inspection: Oct. 30
Critical (corrected during inspection): The following food item(s) for which time rather than temperature is used as a control is not marked or otherwise identified to indicate the time that is 4 hours past the point in time when the food is removed from temperature control: salad with cut tomato, kheer, rice and cooked chicken at buffet.
Critical (corrected during inspection): Pesticides labeled for residential use were observed in the facility.
Non-critical: The person in charge (PIC) has a valid certificate of successful completion of a Certified Food Manager (CFM) exam but does not possess the CFM card issued by ORS Interactive, Inc.