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The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, 866-366-3723, uses a risk-based inspection reporting process for restaurants and other food handlers.
Bareville Fire Company, 211 E. Main St., Leola, March 6. Prepackaged chicken soup, shoofly pie and dried beef gravy need label corrections as follows: allergens instead of allergies, milk instead of dairy, and addition of soy on shoofly pie label.
Brady s, 856 W. Main St., New Holland, March 6. Chlorine sanitizer in low temp dishwasher is being dispensed at 200 ppm, which is not approved in the Code of Federal Regulations for food contact sanitizing at this level. Food facility has a reminder statement on the menu for foods that could be served raw or undercooked to the consumer; however, it does not clearly disclose which foods the reminder statement applies to. Newspaper found lining the bottom of the bain-marie, which is not a surface that is cleanable. Chlorine test strips are old and discolored and need replacement.
Restaurants can still offer outdoor dining service though. However, there is no telling if it will stay warm enough for customers to enjoy. Some businesses, like Lancaster Dispensing Company, don t see the benefit of trying. We lose less money by being closed. Right now, we can barely make payroll, let alone the other bills, so um, yeah, explained Fryth Stallings, a 25-year employee of Dipco.
Stallings held back tears as she explained why Dipco can t stay open. We can t stay open. We can t pay anybody, she said. I don t know what is going to happen in March. It depends on if the vaccine is available, and if the majority of the population is able to get it. Our business model is a line out of the door and as many people as we can get in the place.